This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1175.3 Message Board Post: Alot of my relatives were waked from their own home - my mother can remember (she was born in 1922) her father's - died in 1933 and her sister's(died in 1939) wake being held in their parlor(livingroom) I don't know if that means that the undertakers prepared the body there or what!