The Obituaries & Biographies Board is designed to permit you to submit various obituaries & biographies (with a Reck Family connection only, please) that you find or have in your own collection. Funeral card transcriptions are also acceptable as long as you indicate the name and location of the funeral home. Sources are always important, but we realize that many have clippings in their possession which no longer have any information about the place or date originally published. You may still submit these, but please indicate what you know as YOUR source. For example, if you found them in the family Bible, use that as your source.

Most biographies are found in volumes of county history or dictionaries of biography. Unlike obituaries which are published on the occasion of a death, biographies can be written and published at any time. You may even write your own biography of a relative. Just BE CERTAIN that you indicate who the author was when you know and where you found the biography.

The Obituaries & Biographies Board is set so that all posts are listed in alphabetical order. When you try to change viewing preferences you can only choose to limit the time period for when a post was made or select that posts are sorted in reverse alphabetical order. It is also a Moderated Board so that when you make a post the Administrator has to verify that it follows acceptable formats and that the subject is set so that it sorts correctly. There may be as much as a week's delay before a post might show up in the Message Index or you might be contacted in e-mail for more information.

When you are ready to post yourself, please follow these few guidelines for Obituary posts to make your visit more productive for yourself and others.
(these are still under construction and may change)

• Explain the connection to teh Reck Family if it isn't obvious in the obituary.
• Always provide your name and e-mail address.
• For the subject, use the last name of the person, comma, and given name(s). Put maiden names in "(...)" parentheses.
• Irrelevant or offensive posts will be removed without notice.
• If you change your e-mail address, contact the Board Administrator to change it.

YOU own your posts and we have left you the option to delete your post at a later time if you wish. However, you must provide a password for that post at the time you make it. Without your password, you will have to contact the Administrator to get a post removed or corrected. Be aware that if you remove your post, you may not remove the replies that were made to it. Every separate individual owns their own posts. The Reck Family Website is merely the custodian making your posts available for viewing.