Surely, Rick, your records have a note of explanation for the benefit of anyone looking at them later. Israel Pickholtz Jerusalem blogging weekly at http://allmyforeparents.blogspot.com. On 7 Oct 2012 at 1:00, transitional-genealogists-forum- request@roTRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM Digest, Vol 6, Is wrote: > With modern records there are always lots of situations that could > cause future genealogists to do a double take if they only look at the > statistics. My father donated his body to science. The school sends > the ashes back to the family (if they want them) about a year later. > In picking a time for "burial" when everyone could get together, his > ashes were buried about 2 years after he died. Anyone looking at just > the death and burial dates in my records would thing one was wrong. > > Rick Saunders