Approve every message first
Turn on review mode and nothing appears until you have read it. Messages with links always wait.
A calm place to share memories.
When someone dies, the messages arrive from everywhere: cards, phone calls, comments scattered across social media. A memorial guestbook gives them one quiet place that the family looks after.
Remembering Margaret Hale
Sign the guestbookLucy Park
Margaret taught me to bake bread when I was nine. I still use her recipe every winter.
The Okafor family
A kind neighbor and a wonderful friend. We will miss her garden chats.
Turn on review mode and nothing appears until you have read it. Messages with links always wait.
Choose a calm theme. The guestbook page shows no ads, only the memories people share.
Download all the messages as a spreadsheet to keep, print or share with the family.
Three steps, then the messages arrive.
Remembering Margaret Hale
Sign the guestbookLucy Park
Margaret taught me to bake bread when I was nine. I still use her recipe every winter.
The Okafor family
A kind neighbor and a wonderful friend. We will miss her garden chats.
Use the name of the person you are remembering. Memorial guestbooks start unlisted.
Add the link to the funeral notice, a family message or the order of service.
Approve each message, reply if you wish, and close the guestbook when the time feels right.
Yes. Turn on review mode and every new message waits for you to publish it. In any mode, a message that contains a link waits for your OK.
Yes. The Messages page of each guestbook has a download button that gives you every message as a spreadsheet (CSV).
A guestbook is deleted from its Settings page, your account from the Account page. Both delete the messages at once and cannot be undone.
Yes. Turn off “Taking new messages” in Settings. The messages stay visible and nobody can add new ones.