The Birch Street Web is 10 years old!

Ten years ago, The Birch Street Web debuted on the internet as "A Family Site for Keeping In Touch."

Dan writes: It was Sunday evening, March 18. I had made a weekend project of creating a space, on a platform called "Googlepages," where I could collect news tidbits, photos and videos of family members and their activities. It was sort of a digital successor to a printed newsletter called "The Mail" that I operated for a while several years earlier.

As the Birch Street Web grew, it became difficult to manage as web pages, so on Nov. 11, 2008, I relaunched it as a blog on Google's Blogger platform. Today, there are more than 1,000 entries in the blog, plus links to expanded articles, special-feature pages, photo albums, YouTube videos and archived content. (Unfortunately, changes by Google over time have broken some of the links, especially to photo albums; I'll try to restore them as I can.)

Thanks to everyone in the extended family for sharing words and pictures. The result is an ever-growing chronicle of family events - which, as time goes by, turns into family history. Please continue to contribute, and I hope you'll turn to it often as a resource for remembering big and small events in our lives.