I don't actually know how to write on the roster I meant on the graves but when my graveyard filled up I recorded messages in a word document

Sorry I misunderstood.
I am not that organised to make a word file on my villagers.

Mind you it might help me remember the ones who have died as you remember a few but not all, but if you pulled their details piccie into a word document then that would help.
Do it from whn they were little and watch them age!!

While we are talking here of 'us'....the guiding hand....mourning our villagers I must comment how touching it is to see the villagers mourning/honoring their dead. I just recently had my first event with the catastrophic illness. Chose to operate and he died. First time ever this action has happened.....every single villager collected flowers and brought them to the gravesite. Quite touching I though.