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The Tributize Story

It all started more than 20 years ago.

I had been to the funerals of two family members within a couple of years. The first funeral was for my uncle who had died in his seventies, and the next was for my grandmother who had lived into her early nineties.

These were the first funerals that I had attended and I was prepared for a sad occasion.. but what surprised me was how interesting it was to hear stories and learn new information about my relatives. 

The role that my uncle had played in the Second World War, or discovering that my grandmother had always wanted to be a florist.

I learned so much and was able to appreciate my relatives in a new way, but it also seemed such a pity to learn these things when  in some ways it was already too late.

More importantly, I wondered if these stories would be forgotten? how could they be preserved?

More than ten years later the idea came back to me. How to preserve and share these valuable memories to keep them alive? 

I looked at the existing online memorial websites and found them to be old-fashioned and depressing so I set to work building a new platform.

Many people still 'pay tribute' to their departed friends and family on Facebook, but these memories soon disappear in the news feed to be forgotten.

So Tributize started in 2014 with the goal of creating a platform where users can 'pay tribute' to important people in their lives.  The platform offers online memorials  with an easy to use interface, and a personal service if needed.

I promise to keep your memories safe, and to treat you fairly and honestly.

Our goal is to create memorials to great people.

I hope that I can welcome you as a customer and help to preserve your memories online.

James Smith

Tributize CEO and Founder

 


The Tributize Team

James Smith Tributize Founder

James

Founder

 

Miron

Technology
Claudia Tributize

Claudia

Marketing

Press Coverage

July 11th 2019: Metro.news death-and-your-digital-footprint

 

Press Releases

November 10th 2017: Tributize Revolutionizes the eCard with Tribute Pages for Loved Ones. Click here to download the press release.

Related Links

This piece is from 2014 and we just came across it. It goes a long way to explain why we created Tributize  - to fill a huge gap in a very important market!

When Loved Ones Die, Why Is It So Hard to Memorialize Their Lives Online?

When Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler's friend passed away, he volunteered to make a memorial website. It proved difficult to find decent options to honor the dead.

"I wanted to allow people to share their digital memories"

"Mourning is a core human experience in dire need of some new digital ideas."

"I tried a dozen online memorial services and found most only frustrated me"

"None of the services could help me make a truly beautiful tribute"

"The sense of reverence many of the services built into their templates—clip art of doves or setting suns—didn't fit with my friend's raucous personality"

"Seeing decades-old photos and reading childhood stories about my friend for the first time, I gained a new appreciation of him"