There are tender ways to memorialize your deceased relatives - and then there are ways you should not! I recently read an obituary that included information that would make most people cringe - but most genealogists would probably value it for the backstory. Check it out here.
This is a contemporary example of the Famous - or Notorious? post I wrote a few months ago. If the survivors had just listed names and dates, no one would ever know the sad past of this older lady. Nor might one descendant ever understand why he/she never sees Uncle Peter at family gatherings. It's these elements of a story that make a family story come alive - but it might be a hundred years before members of the family could read it without fighting...
The saying goes: "May you live in interesting times" - but I'd change it for my fellow genealogists to read "May your family be filled with interesting people." Happy hunting!
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