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.
"No One Ever Died From Oven Crud Poisoning"
"Oops I lied"
Posted by: Sarah Alexander | August 10, 2007 at 07:28 AM
actual gravestone in Lowell Memorial Cemetary, Lowell IN.
Here lies Debbie
The Dr. said it was the salt
But way back, in the corner of her sock drawer
Was an empty box of Chocolates
Posted by: Rochelle Gereg | August 10, 2007 at 07:47 AM
Whenever I am in the middle of my research and someone wants to go to lunch, I look at what I am working on and sometimes say, Okay -
"I'm at a logical stopping place"
That's what I want on my tombstone!
Posted by: Upton Sinclair Lewis | August 10, 2007 at 04:51 PM
Live Life to it's Fullest
It's Never too Late
Except For Now
Posted by: Mary Stewart | August 14, 2007 at 10:03 AM
He who dies
With the most toys
Wins.
Posted by: Jack Foster | August 14, 2007 at 07:16 PM
Genealogy is a grave addiction.
Posted by: Van R. Foster II | August 14, 2007 at 07:19 PM
Housework
must have killed
someone, somewhere
Posted by: Ruth Rawls | August 16, 2007 at 01:29 AM
Should've had
that surgery
after all...
Posted by: Ruth Rawls | August 16, 2007 at 01:50 AM
grieve not for me my husband dear,
im not dead,but sleeping here
with patience wait-perforce to die
and in short time youll come to me
and her husband replies
i am not grieved my dearest life,
for i have found another wife
therefor,i can not come to thee
for i must go and live with she
it wont fit but i thought it was funny!
Posted by: vanilla | September 22, 2007 at 11:01 PM
I am looking for a photo of a tombstone I saw in a cemetary in the north eastern corner of Massachusetts. It said, "See, I told you I was sick!". If anyone knows of this one and has or is able to photograph it, could you please e:mail it to me: Thank you,
martysfolks@hotmail.com
Posted by: Dolores P. Rosner | September 23, 2007 at 12:19 AM
here lies ronnie who was very odd he was eaten by a shark in cape codd
Posted by: ronnie | October 12, 2007 at 09:17 AM
here lies chad he had so much drama , when he was in the field he got ran over by a llama
Posted by: chad roskelly | October 12, 2007 at 09:18 AM
here lies aaron hes really really cool, but when he went swimming he drowned in his pool
Posted by: aaron | October 12, 2007 at 09:21 AM