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Yes you can - dwarves will bury the bodies of all dwarves in coffins, regardless of their origin; even invading "goblinized" dwarves will be given a proper burial.

I've noticed with caravan deaths, you can only engrave a memorial to them if their body is completely lost. Otherwise you have to bury their body for the ghost to disappear. Not sure if that' a bug or not. Ran in to it when I forbid an entire caravan death zone when they walked in to all the goblins.

A lot of them are made of bronze, and I don't seem to have any tin on my embark. So if possible, I'd like to salvage it, just in case.

Ugh. They are all in bins, and I can't get them out without dumping the whole thing.

You can  melt items in bins, just click enter on each item in the bin, then click (m) for melt. Make sure you don't click m in the bin main screen, because it will melt the bin itself.

Are they all flocking around your wagon? If so, deconstruct it.

Also build some ropes/chains (b - v) at the entrance to your fort, and assign any animal to it, that will keep them away.

I believe you can go in to legends mode and see all the FBs, and if they're dead or alive. Pretty sure it doesn't show their location. If your worldgen ran a while you might have had a very small number of FBs left in the first place. You see posts about this in the dwarf forums about entering a new age.

The only time I've had a problem with it is when immigrants wander around instead of heading to my meeting hall. Other then that there are a few ways to keep this from happening too much.

Disable all hunters and fishermen with children.

Keep your buildings and stockpiles behind your fortifications and traps.

Don't give your dwarves any reason to wander around outside your fort. Forbid all chopped wood, rocks and jewels outside your gates, otherwise some dude will think they are the best thing and go out and pick them up to make something out of. If you really want the stuff out there, set a garbage dump zone in your fort in a useful location and mass dump all the stuff at once, if you have any population size, enough dwarves will do this at once that the snatcher will be spotted before he grabs a kid.

Lastly, if other options don't work, assign children to burrows and parents with babies.

As necro said, Strand Extraction. Also you may want to use something like DwarfTherapist to see if any dwarves are already trained in strand extraction and that it is enabled. It is very slow otherwise, takes forever for them to get decently skilled at it.

The thing is you don't just have that one piece of 'goo', it's likely almost every one of your dwarfs is covered in some kind of FB dust or pus. The reason children are affected by it is they don't put on shoes and cloths correctly.