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[Schmaven]

When engraving a memorial slab at the craftsdwarf's workshop, is there any way to determine which units in the list might come back as ghosts and which won't?  Pets and enemies do not return to haunt the living, but often have very similar names to the dwarves in the fort who do.  Most of the time, the deceased can be recovered and entombed, but there are a lot of raising bridges in this fort, and a rather dangerous waterfall that has killed more dwarves than any invasion so far.  All unrecoverable.

[delphonso]

The top names are citizens, I believe it lists first, those who are not buried, second, those who are buried, and third, those already memorialized.

I think any citizen who isn't buried or memorialized will become a ghost, given enough time. You could look through the list until you recognize a name from your graveyard, or else just use some paper and pen to list the dead. Arduous, sure, but that's ghost-bustin' baby.

The perhaps more dorfy method would be to stockpile some slabs near a craftsdwarf workshop and merely memorialize them as they rise. Ghosts tend to be harmless for the first month or so that they've risen. Plenty of time!

[Stelladog]

If you can spare the dwarves, one solution might be to just memorialize everyone. A big memorial hall might be a pretty cool fortress element, though maybe less so if a lot of them died doing dumb stuff...