Make Your Own Online Tombstone
OK, you simply have to see this one! I've written before about web sites that will generate signs or pictures containing text that you enter. Now there's one of interest to genealogists: make your own tombstone.
You simply go to the web site, enter up to three lines of short text, click on the BURY IT button and a picture of a tombstone soon appears on your screen. The stone contains the words you just entered.
You can right click on the image and then save it to your hard drive. (Macintosh users should hold down the control key as you click.) You can then import the image into a word document, a genealogy program, a personal web site or even into an e-mail message you wish to send.
You can see an example of a "homemade" tombstone at the top of this article. Double-click on the image to see a larger example. To make your own tombstone, go to http://tinyurl.com/2ynvop.
Here's a challenge. If you will submit humorous or otherwise interesting words for use on a tombstone and post those words in the comments section below, I will change the above image every day to reflect one of the latest submissions. Two weeks from today, I will change it to whatever I deem to be the funniest or most interesting tombstone message received and will leave that image online here forever. Here's your chance to have your words etched in (digital) stone!
Please post your submissions below.
Dick:
Interesting generator...I just hope that it doesn't lead to lazy RAOGK'ers going to this site rather than getting an actual gravestone photograph :)
Posted by: Dave | July 29, 2007 at 12:34 PM
Genealogists never die - they just haunt cemeteries
Genealogy is all relative in the end
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards
Someday YOU'LL be an ancestor too!
Posted by: Paula Kelley Ward | July 29, 2007 at 03:27 PM
Hi Dick,
This is really funny !
For about a month now I have a script on my site to give everyone a chance to generate their own "noble ancestor tree". Looking at the number of visitors until now it seems genealogists aren't always that serious :-)
Have a look at: http://www.atgp.nl/genea/peculiarformeng.html
Maybe worth a small article too??
Cheers,
Aiko
Posted by: Aiko | July 29, 2007 at 04:12 PM
Family Historian ~ Within Her Head ~ Ancestors Danced
and
Genealogy ~ Not Fatal ~ But it is a Grave Disease
You can see these on my blog:
http://kinexxions.blogspot.com/2007/07/have-some-fun-make-your-own-tombstone.html
Posted by: Becky Wiseman | July 29, 2007 at 07:12 PM
I used to look for
ancestors
Now I am one
Posted by: Mark Roy | July 29, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Finally
I'm Thin
And Resting
Comment: It came up and looked great! I've been on one diet or another for nearly 65 years.
Posted by: Mary Grindol | July 30, 2007 at 12:49 AM
This Genealogist
Braked Here
Once Too Often
Posted by: Don Lama | July 30, 2007 at 01:00 AM
Here lies
Felix Fibber
He was an ad libber
------
A Grave Matter
gina genealogist
rubbed me the wrong way
------
Here Lies
Stubborn Sue
had to have the last word
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Lucky Lucy
Lottery Winner
I took it with me
Posted by: Linda Swisher | July 30, 2007 at 02:26 AM
Ashes to ashes
Dust to dust.
Tried for just one more generation
'til I went bust!
Posted by: Susan | July 30, 2007 at 03:10 AM
My two tombstone epitaphs are:
I love dogs
Muttly.com
2 Paw Prints to 11,000 Paw P
and for the finale..
Hunting Ancestor
Not Any More
HeFoundMe.com
Posted by: Karen | July 30, 2007 at 04:18 AM
Wow.... made my own tombstone... that was a bit morbid.
Posted by: Martin | July 30, 2007 at 05:08 AM
OK, here are some of mine:
Here lies Dusty
now she's really
..... dusty
Searching Roots
I found them
..... at last
For the first time
I really hit
a Brick Wall
Cheers,
Aiko
Posted by: Aiko | July 30, 2007 at 05:54 AM
I'm With Stupid
<---
Posted by: Dick Hillenbrand | July 30, 2007 at 06:35 AM
Genie At Rest
Tired From Diggin' The Dead
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Genie At Rest
Since I am always here
I thought I would stay awhile
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Posted by: Brenda | July 30, 2007 at 08:10 AM
Diggin' Bones
Has Killed These Bones
Posted by: Brenda | July 30, 2007 at 08:12 AM
Up or Down
I Am Sure To Find
Some Ancestors
Posted by: Mary | July 30, 2007 at 08:25 AM
Eternity!
I've been buried in documents
And now have entered it.
and....
Genealogists Never Die...
They just become Ancestors.
Posted by: Golden | July 30, 2007 at 08:33 AM
I Staked My Claim and
I'm Not Movin'
Posted by: Bonnie | July 30, 2007 at 10:12 AM
Frozen in Time
Posted by: Bonnie | July 30, 2007 at 10:16 AM
I Take Retirement
Seriously
Posted by: Bonnie | July 30, 2007 at 10:17 AM
What Did I Leave
I Left It ALL
Posted by: Bonnie | July 30, 2007 at 10:19 AM
I Know Who I Am
Left Clues Galore
Winner Gets the Spoils
Posted by: Bonnie | July 30, 2007 at 10:26 AM
BMD
Finally the 3rd
Certificate
Posted by: Ronda Snyder | July 30, 2007 at 10:33 AM
I Told You I Was Sick
Posted by: Chas Cornell | July 30, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Although this is too long to fit the tombstone, it really applies to any crossword puzzle enthusiast:
Craig TenBroeck, a cruciverbalist of renown,
Lies buried here appropriately
At three across and six down.
Posted by: Craig TenBroeck | July 30, 2007 at 02:03 PM