The below suggestion from Karen Zach leads me to suggest another approach which is to add obituaries (such as the ones posted here) to the corresponding entries at the Find-A-Grave web site. If you're not familiar with Find-A-Grave, it has a relatively open access procedure for posting information. If an entry already exists for a deceased person, you can click on the edit tab which allows you to send an email message to the creator of that entry in which you can ask them to add more details including the obituary which you could paste in the message to the creator. A few dedicated persons have contributed many grave photos and corresponding entries but often they have no "personal" information on the person. So asking them to add an obituary will add a great deal to the value of the Find-A-Grave entry as far as remembering the life of the person. Realistically, grave photos on sites like Find-A-Grave will soon be all that's left of many graves in older cemeteries. And a photo helps capture inscriptions that may become unreadable in future years. As an example, see http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55015065 The photo of the grave was taken 30+ years ago. The stone is basically unreadable today due to a mold covering. Find-A-Grave also allows you to link family members together which greatly enhances its value as a genealogy source. In this respect, Find-A-Grave can help answer the question of how persons with the same surname in a cemetery are related. You may need to ask the creator of an entry to add these family links for you but most are more than happy to do so. If no entry exits, any Find-A-Grave member can create one even if you don't have a photo of the grave itself. The kicker here is that you need to know where someone is buried but that's usually already known or in the obituary. Find-A-Grave also allows posting of photos of the person or their family. So the combination of a grave photo, a person photo and an obituary/biography provides a way to keep that person's memory alive and share genealogy information with others. Message: 5 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:34:58 -0500 From: Karen Zach <[email protected]> Subject: [InMontgo] Opinion time To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Okay, I got this BRILLIANT (cough-cough) idea tonight as I was finally putting some obituaries Kim, Lena, etc have been typing & sending in (hoping to get a lot of that done this weekend) and as I did Faye Schenck's (prominent Dr. turn-of-century (not the one ten years ago :) Well, as I was doing that obituary, I thought, my, it'd be neat to just put the link from that to the biography and vice-versa. Lo & behold, I did and I LIKE IT however #1 I don't think I'd ever be able to go back and hook 'em all up (WAY WAY too many) but I thought from now on, I could do it if they have the biography (then link it back to obit) unless you think I'm just wasting my time since there is a good index on the page anyway :) What do you think? REALLY WANT SOME OPINIONS HERE Thanks - kz http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/obituaries/s/schenck-faye-orr.htm