Question of the Week: What one (or more) genealogy-related statement would you like added to your obituary?

Question

What one (or more) genealogy related statement would YOU like added to your obituary? Besides the usual family info, places, and dates. Please take care of my grave? So and so has my family work.

Comments

"when you cut out this obituary to save, please record the date and name of the newspaper" so the next generation of genealogists has a little less trouble attaching me to a tree!

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love it!

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Can we convert Kristina's comment to an answer so I can upvote it 47 times? I am from greater Chicagoland, after all. So perfect..

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Don't know about my obit but my wife says my tombstone will say, "I told you I was sick!"

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She loved her ancestors, the kings, queens, knights, farmers and merchants who made Western civilization great.

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Gone back to my Roots  ;-) The family tree is in the red box.

Answer 1

"I am sorry if I got your information wrong on WikiTree but you didn't leave me much to go on!!!"

Comments

Thanks John Noel for Best Answer!

Answer 2

maybe point them to my WikiTree profile :)

Answer 3

Lived to be a remarkable 250 years old; his age is not a database error.

Answer 4

He is survived by his loving sixth wife, 23 children, 58 grandchildren, 122 great-grandchildren, 228 gg-grandchildren, 481 ggg-grandchildren ...

Sorry, "Descendant List" only shows 5 generations.

Answer 5

Here lieth Ros,
Genealogist, because
Though Heaven-bound
Where angels sound
Her sources say she was

Comments

Well, now I know how to pronounce your first name!!! lol

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LOVE IT!!!!

Answer 6

Honest answer: I'd like to include a statement of membership in at least one lineage society.  I could join Sons of the American Revolution several times over--but I'm holding out for something more rare.

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My brother wants to join The Society of the Cincinnati but alas ....

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I'm very active in UDC & am also in DAR... I call DAR my "obit fodder" group.

Answer 7

Although I am planning to die, I am not planning to have an obituary.

Answer 8

Joking answer: "Note to my descendants: SAVE this for your descendants."

(Include "cut here" dotted line around perimeter of your obit.)

Answer 9

"G. found their family and is still looking for more, so if you find yourself related on WikiTree or GEDMatch to them within 25 generations, you are more than welcome to the funeral, cousin."

Answer 10

He's gone to check his profiles in person.

Comments

Brief, but a very good one !

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Definitely need to be able to upvote this one many times! I think I must leave instructions in my will........

Answer 11

He didn't have much Census, but he loved his genealogy. He will now go and find a grave.

Answer 12

What a great bunch of answers!

How about: Carole has passed the designated-family-genealogist torch (and research) to her niece Mary Smith. Please get in touch with Mary if you have family information, papers, or photos to share.

[I don't really have a niece named Mary Smith. Here's hoping that someone will be interested!]

Answer 13

"To Future Genealogists: This obituary meets guidelines set forth by the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG). Dates, locations and family connections have all been verified through primary source documentation."

Answer 14

Mags will haunt the WikiTree servers for infinity. Do not post the in memerium template to her profile. She will want to pretend she is still here.

Answer 15

Descendant of Viking Ragnar "Lodbrok" Sigurdsson (715-794), his 34th GGF.

Answer 16

... she died without issue!

Answer 17

He worked to fill in his Harris Ancestry back to 500 BC with connects through his grandchildren during his lifetime.

Answer 18

Anita had once said, "As I worked on my family genealogy, I liked the feeling that I was helping others to get to 'know' as many of our ancestors as possible. There were times that I could almost sense someone sitting beside me at the keyboard, saying excitedly, that's me!"

Answer 19

She was the family historian; in lieu of flowers, please send a contribution to the General Fund @ [ insert URL for DNA project].

Answer 20

Gone to visit the family that I found!

Be Back Later!

Comments

Nice one!

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Answer mistakenly supplied as a comment. Sorry.