[Gramps v6.0.6 on Windows 10 & 11]
Gramps includes a life event called ‘burial’. Do people use that event even if there is no body to bury, because they were cremated, and their ashes were not actually buried (interred) but were scattered somewhere?
If not, what is the best way to handle such an event?
If someone os cremated, I use ‘Cremated’ not ‘Burial’.
Yes, there is a ‘cremation’ event but after that there is another event, the ‘disposal’ of the ashes. Some are ‘buried’ / interred, some are scattered, e.g. at a favoured location of the deceased (not always legal, but it happens). [Some end up on a shelf in the surviving partner’s home, or even at the back of a cupboard of the surviving partner’s home only to be found after the death of the partner.]
Do Gramps users not bother to record this subsequent event?
In the Event Cremation I usually just put a note in the Description
Field as to the dispersal of ashes if known
phil
Thank you, that would also work for me.
There is the term inurnment for when the urn is buried.
Just create a custom event or write a custom type called “ash‑scattering ceremony”, interment of ashes, inurnment as DaveSch suggest, **or something similar.
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Gramps users have to be careful in creating custom types for Events that mark vital statistics: Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce.
For instance, a Cremation event is a Death fallback. But a Custom Event would not be.
The Fallback Events section of the wiki has a concise overview.