Cindy's advice is excellent.  Completely concur, and expect that Dede will as well.  My only question is how long it will store safely in the refrigerator, but it will probably not last long enough for that to be an issue. 

We all had mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers, neighbors, and what have you who did the same thing, Chris.  There are more than a couple of issues going on here, all of which are worthy of being addressed.

First, sanitation when they were doing things that way were not what they are these days.  Not saying that our relatives were less clean than we are today.  Quite the opposite!  Our predecessors simply did not have the toxins and mutated toxins that we have today and did not have to protect themselves from as many germs as we do now.

Second, our relatives did not have the science and all the tools science has given us to work with.  They worked from trial and error, pretty much exclusively.  We don't have to do that.  We have studies of conditions necessary to ensure long term safe storage.  A big part of that is knowing exactly how much a product must be heated to kill various bacteria within it that could otherwise kill us.  Along with this we now know exactly how to seal the product in the jar to keep additional toxins from invading the jar.  All thanks to science providing that information to us.

Each of us will make our own decisions based on whatever criteria we select.  If doing things just like grandmum did it works for you, then keep right on doing it.  Personally, I'd much rather take advantage of what science has provided us whether we are talking using the microwave or being able to can things that come from all over the world rather than be limited to what comes from the back yard.  Don't know about your relatives but mine only canned what came from within a block or so of their own home, used a corn cob/coal fired cook stove, and carried water in from the well out back.  That's what I think of when someone says, "Mom always did it thus and so!"