Why become a Sponsor?

One answer: Quality Content. As an internet resource soon to be visited by millions of families, we want only responsible funeral directors or their designees to post content on ObituaryTree.com. We will not risk allowing the wrong person to post the wrong content to our pages.

Ensuring Quality Content

To ensure the quality of our content, we require a one-time registration fee for all new sponsors. This $20 fee is payable via our Paypal portal, or by sending payment to our postal address. When your registration form and payment are received, our representatives will conduct an interview with your funeral home and ensure that you are bona fide.

Full-Service vs. Self-Service

We offer these two types of service because some funeral homes with qualified staff prefer to quickly post their own obituaries, while others prefer to send us their obituaries in an email for us to post within 48 hours (usually within 1 hour, but our lawyer says we have to say 48).

Self-Service

For funeral homes with staff qualified to:

• post only in the correct state.
• crop one photograph to 1.5" x 2.0" at 72 dpi and upload the file using our easy chooser.
• type the "name of deceased, city, d.o.b. - d.o.d." into the title field.
• type the name of the funeral home into the author's field.
• copy and paste the body (text) of the obituary into the appropriate field.

These funeral homes will receive access to post obituaries at will, with no monthly fees whatsoever. Restrictions: Self-Service accounts may include their funeral home's name, website URL, business address and contact information at the end of each newly-posted obituary in un-linked, text-only form. No other images or links are permitted for free accounts.

Click the Self-Service button (at left) to pay your registration with Paypal and get started with a Self-Service account today.

Full-Service

Most funeral homes send their obituaries to their local newspaper via email as an attached document. Most of the time they even attach a photo to the email. For those funeral homes needing the convenience of just adding another recipient to these emails, our Full-Service option makes it that simple.

Our staff will size the photos and post the entire obituary - including a linked banner ad at the end of each new obituary. Browse the site for hundreds of examples (soon). Your posted obituaries become portals bringing our visitors to your website.

Fees for this option are based on six dollars ($6) per obituary, multiplied by your annual average number of funeral services (N), divided by twelve (12) months: (6xN)/12. Your credit card or bank account will be charged in twelve equal payments on a monthly basis. Any overages or underages will be charged or credited at the end of the year.

Click the Full-Service button (at left) to pay your registration with Paypal and get started with a Full-Service account today. You will only be charged the $20 registration fee today.