There's really no depth or color, he says. In my opinion, you lose out. Besides seeing when my great great Aunt Jane was born and died, it would be much better if you had pictures, what her chocolate chip recipe was, where she went to school, what she read, the things that were important to her. We're adding color to genealogy. MeM maintains the Web site and kiosks at 10 cemeteries from Florida to California.
Families can call up the site at the kiosks.
The first kiosk was installed in September at Spring Grove Cemetery. The MeM Web site contains all memorials sold by the company. Customers do not have to have relatives buried at Spring Grove to place information on the site. A portion of each sale goes to an endowment fund to maintain the site permanently. Our hope is that it will be a celebration of life, not a termination notice, Mr. Mindrum says.