Online Memorial Guide
Create an Online Memorial Website for Someone You Love
An online memorial can preserve far more than dates and an obituary. Bring together their life story, photographs, videos, favorite music, family history, and meaningful memories in one lasting place that family and friends can visit and share.
How to Create an Online Memorial
Creating a memorial website does not require web-design experience. The memorial service provides the structure, and you build the memorial by adding the stories, photographs, videos, music, relationships, and life details you want preserved.
Choose the Person You Want to Remember
Begin with the person's name and basic information. You do not need to have every story, photograph, or detail ready before you start.
Tell Their Life Story
Preserve the experiences, relationships, accomplishments, personality, traditions, and moments that made their life uniquely theirs.
Add Photos, Videos and Meaningful Media
Bring the story to life with photographs, Video Memories, favorite music, captions, and other media that family members will recognize and value.
Add Family History and Important Life Details
Record family relationships, places lived and worked, schools, awards, social links, obituary information, and final resting place details when appropriate.
Review, Publish and Share
Review the memorial, publish it when you are comfortable, and share the web address with family and friends so they can visit the memorial.
What Should You Gather Before You Start?
You can begin an online memorial with very little and add more later. Still, gathering a few items ahead of time can make it easier to build a complete picture of the person's life.
You Do Not Have to Finish the Memorial in One Sitting
Families often discover additional photographs, stories, dates, videos, and documents after they begin. A memorial website can be developed over time instead of forcing you to collect everything at once.
Starting with the life story and a few photographs can also help other relatives remember details they want to contribute. Building the memorial can become a family effort rather than a single person trying to remember every part of a life.
What Can You Put on a MyEMemorial?
A Departed MyEMemorial is designed to preserve the story between the dates. Depending on the plan, families can preserve many different parts of a person's life in one shareable memorial website.
Can Family and Friends Contribute?
One person rarely has every photograph or every story. A cousin may remember childhood moments, a former coworker may have work photographs, and a friend may remember a story the immediate family has never heard.
MyEMemorial allows family and friends to submit written stories, photographs, and videos for review. This helps the memorial grow while allowing the memorial owner to control what becomes part of the public story.
Should You Use a Memorial Website or Just Social Media?
Social media can help notify friends and collect immediate condolences, but posts can become difficult to find over time. A dedicated memorial website gives the person's story its own destination and organizes the memories around the person instead of a constantly changing social feed.
Can You Create a Memorial Website for Free?
MyEMemorial offers a Free Departed MyEMemorial so a family can begin preserving basic information, a life story, and a limited photo gallery. If the family later wants more photographs, Video Memories, favorite music, family history, or other paid features, the memorial can be upgraded.
Basic, Plus, and Premium Departed MyEMemorial plans use one-time payments rather than recurring subscription fees.
Compare Memorial PlansFrequently Asked Questions About Creating an Online Memorial
How do I create an online memorial?
Choose an online memorial service, create the memorial for the person you want to remember, add their life story and meaningful details, upload photographs or other media, and then publish and share the memorial when you are ready.
What information should I gather before creating a memorial website?
Helpful materials can include the person's full name, birth and death information, photographs, important life stories, family relationships, places lived and worked, schools, awards, favorite music, videos, obituary information, and final resting place details.
Can I start an online memorial before I have everything ready?
Yes. A memorial can be built over time. You can begin with the basic information and life story, then add photographs, videos, music, family history, and other memories as they are collected.
Can family and friends help build the memorial?
Depending on the memorial service, family and friends may be able to submit written memories, photographs, or videos. The memorial owner can retain control over what is published.
Does creating an online memorial require technical skills?
A modern memorial website should guide you through the process without requiring you to build a website or write code. The memorial service provides the structure while you provide the person's story and memories.
Start Preserving Their Story
Start free or choose the MyEMemorial plan that gives your family the space and features needed to preserve the stories, photographs, videos, music, and memories of someone you love.