Control Your Legacy With A Living Obituary

Presented by Janet Dagley

Palm Springs Genealogical Society presents "Control Your Legacy With A Living Obituary" presented by Janet Dagley.

This free program will be from 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Mizell Center in their Community Room.

Did you know that most news organizations keep advance obituaries on file for most famous people? This presentation will help you prepare your own living obituary and help preserve your legacy. Why leave it to your bereaved family to summarize your life at the worst possible time for them? That is likely to lead to mistakes that will be repeated through the generations. As a kindness to future genealogists, spell it out yourself while you can.  

As a journalist, Janet Dagley has written the obituaries of such famous people as Truman Capote, Benny Goodman, and Sammy Davis, Jr., and contributed to dozens more. In her genealogical research, she has studied hundreds of other obituaries. She has also learned from mistakes in her own family's obits. She is the author of the forthcoming book People We Come From, as well as a series of ebooks on her family's role in American history.

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