Documenting lost at sea
A relative was in a submarine that sank in the Navy. How would we list the burial information. The submarine was later found and is now listed as the burial at sea location for all of the crew. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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The Placesdata base includes at least Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. There may be others. Using one of those as the base, you can put in as precise of location as you know.
For example, if I was documenting the burial for someone who died on the Titanic, I would enter:
As you can see by the tool tip that appears when the place is hovered over, this is correctly standardized by linking it to the standardized version "Atlantic Ocean."
By the way, this is a good illustration of why it is very nice that they have done away with the map pins on the new detail page. While this entry would never have a map pin, it is still entered correctly.
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Gordon Collett gave you an excellent answer. I have done something slightly different. My deceased parents both had a philosophical objection to cemeteries during their life. [Don't ask. Sigh.] Both were cremated and the urns are with my brother until my siblings and I can figure out what to do with them that satisfies our needs and their wishes.
Someone added a burial date to my father's page. I subsequently deleted it (one of the VERY few times I have deleted the work of others) and added a custom fact called "In lieu of Burial". There I added "He is not buried. Please do not try to add a burial date. His remains are with one of his children."
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Also, "At Sea" is included in the Standard Places database. I used this (for the death location) when I found an individual had died whilst emigrating from England to Australia - there being no indication (in records) in which waters he had passed.
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