November 21, 2009, 2:32 pm

IS THIS WEIRD to anybody else?

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ismcneil wrote:

This is a little tangent, but I am searching for help in loading information on to Find A Grave.

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...Being a genealogist I have used internet resources for years that lead to lists of names of who is in what cemetery. It would be nice if every known grave was compiled into one database and we could access it completely for free. :)

My dad is the last name on this page at find a grave.

Hey CC-Gal,

You got me on a mission in an indirect way....I went to Find A Grave about Ray Harroun and when I saw the information seemed to be incorrect I thought I would go the Anderson Memorial Park (Section C) and take a photo of Ray W. Harroun's grave site that reads he was born 1879 - 1968 and WINNER - 1st 500 - 1911. 

I also took a photo of my grand parents, but I cannot seem to get the information loaded to Find A Grave.

I uploaded a couple of pictures to my fathers memorial page.  Looks like it was created by my Great Aunt married into the family on my grandfathers side.  She offered to turn control of the page over to me after I sent her some information that I wanted added to it, because I had left it out of the original obituary.   Before I could upload the pictures I wanted on there, I had to register to become a member.  Try that, then go back to the memorial page you want to upload to, and see if there is a button to upload pictures on the right hand side.
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ismcneil wrote:
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I know someone that wants buried with a flashlight, unless someone in the family can figure out how to put a light in her casket.

Did you know?

Reuben John Smith of Buffalo, New York, made sure that he would spend eternity in comfort and he was buried in a leather recliner chair with a checkerboard sitting on his lap.

Humphrey Bogart in 1944 starred in To Have and Have Not with Lauren Bacall. A famous line from the movie, delivered by Bacall (who became his 4th wife) to Bogart, was, "If you need anything, just whistle."  So when Bogart died in 1957, she placed a whistle inscribed with the line inside the silver urn with his ashes.

I have heard stories about other being buried with their cars (like Corvair's) and Harry "The Horse" Flamburis was buried with his motorcycle on top of his coffin.

As on the episode of "Wings" were Fay buried all 3 of her husband's name George.  Someone said isn't that odd?  Fay said where she is from they buried all the dead.  She did admit that her second husband smoked a pipe and would never use an ash tray, so she had him cremated and he is using an ash tray now!

I just have a fear of being catatonic to a degree that it appears I'm dead, and I don't want to be buried alive.  Thus, give me a cell phone, and don't kill me by draining my blood and burning my veins with formaldihyde!! 

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Whatever happened to good ole cremation?

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MAK wrote:

Whatever happened to good ole cremation?

You know everyone has to do their own thing now a days, they have to out do their friends, show they are bigger and better in whatever way they can!


Here's a quote from Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." 

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You're dead....how can you be better than anyone else?  I think dying REALLY puts everyone on a level playing field.

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CC-Gal wrote:
Your dead....how can you be better than anyone else?  I think dying REALLY puts everyone on a level playing field.

I know that and you know that, but some people have to have the best of everything


Here's a quote from Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." 

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just4fun wrote:

CC-Gal wrote:
Your dead....how can you be better than anyone else?  I think dying REALLY puts everyone on a level playing field.

I know that and you know that, but some people have to have the best of everything

 

Or the STRANGEST of everything! LOL

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CC-Gal wrote:

LOL!!!  You could be placed in a mauseleum, on the top shelf. ;)

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CC-Gal wrote:
   don't kill me by draining my blood and burning my veins with formaldihyde!! 

 

and... formaldehyde-   lol

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this is getting a little morbid guys.....but then again.....carry on...


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