A memorial website gives everything you remember about someone one place to live. It can be as small as a page of photos or as full as a family history. Here is a simple way to begin.
1. Pick one person
Start with a single person. You can add others later, such as a spouse or a child, as part of the same story.
2. Gather what you have
Look in boxes, drawers, albums and old phones. Photos, newspaper clippings, letters, certificates, report cards, tickets, recipes. Put it all in one place before you decide what matters.
3. Get it onto a computer
Scan paper and upload photos from your phone. Our guide on scanning old photos explains how.
4. Write down the basics
Full name, birth and death dates, where they lived, what they did for work, who they loved. Keep it short and factual. The stories come next.
5. Answer questions about each photo
This is the part that makes the site worth visiting. Who, where, when, why it matters.
6. Review before you share
Read everything. Check names and dates. Ask a relative to look. Then decide who should see it.
TributeMaker does steps 3 through 6 with you. Our sample, haroldcshore.com, shows what comes out.
Bring your photos and stories to TributeMaker. We ask the simple questions and turn your answers into a website. See a real example at haroldcshore.com.
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This guide is general information. TributeMaker is not a genealogy research service, and we do not verify family facts.