Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cost?
What can we include in the obituary?
How do our family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors
read the obituaries?
Will ObituariesOnTheNet.com replace the newspaper obituaries?
Why should an obituary be on the internet?
My funeral director and/or local newspaper will put
the obituary on the internet for a very nominal cost. Why do I need
ObituariesOnTheNet.com?
How important is the fact ObituariesOnTheNet.com is
an independent corporation?
What is interactivity?
Is the cost of $215 reasonable?
How flexible is the web page search engine?
For what time period should an obituary be online?
Whose obituaries should be on the Internet?
What about local newspapers whose obituaries are online?
What is the cost?
The price of an obituary listing on ObituariesOnTheNet.com is
$215.00. Occasionally the newspaper obituary is shortened or lacks
detail due to cost concerns. For about the same cost as a traditional
newspaper obituary, you can insert both a shortened version of the
obituary in the newspaper with a reference to www.ObituariesOnTheNet.com
and have it listed online for one full year. You are allowed one
free editing revision within the first 6 months. After one year,
annual renewals serve as a universal in-memoriam. Click
here for complete pricing options.
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What can we include in the obituary?
You have up to 1 mb of webspace to include such things as text,
testimonials, pictures, video clips, sound clips, etc. That is enough
space for detailed text and several jpeg pictures. Additional space
is available at additional cost, or you can link to your own website
that you maintain yourself. Our completely searchable database picks
up details like association memberships and alma mater if included
in the obituary text. Whereas it is possible to include audio and/or
video clips, they do take up a lot of memory space and the additional
cost of the obituary is based on a per mb formula over the original
1 mb allowance.
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How do our family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors
read the obituaries?
Our universal obituary reference is free to search, read, and
print for anyone with access to an internet connection; whether
that be through home, work or a public access site. The searchable
database will help them find entries by such criteria as names,
place of birth, residence, and date of birth/death. Obituaries can
also be searched by association memberships, alma maters, etc. if
those details are included in the obituary submission.
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Will ObituariesOnTheNet.com replace the newspaper
obituaries?
Although some experts predict digital media will ultimately replace
traditional print media, ObituariesOntheNet.com is intended to complement
the newspaper obituary. It allows you to run a more precise obituary
in the newspaper with a reference to the ObituariesOnTheNet.com
listing and provide full, more detailed information in the online
obituary. Unlike newspaper obituaries, ObituariesOnTheNet.com allows
you to revise the obituary in the event of any errors or omissions
in the newspaper version.
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Why should an obituary be on the internet?
Obituaries are published to respect and remember family members
and friends. Society is extremely global in that even if the deceased
has lived in the same geographic locale, chances are Family, Friends,
Colleagues, and Neighbours have migrated across a wide, often international,
geographic area. Seniors who have never left their small rural town
may have grown children who now reside in a larger metropolitan
area or perhaps even they now spend part of the year in a different
vacation area. Newspapers are very limited both in geography and
duration and have no interactive flexibility. Online obituaries
can last for years, indeed forever, accessible anywhere in the world,
and can be interactive to facilitate email condolences, and linkage
to other sites such as the funeral home and charitable contributions.
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My funeral director and/or local newspaper will
put the obituary on the internet for a very nominal cost. Why do
I need ObituariesOnTheNet.com?
The benefit of an online obituary is that anyone in the world
can access the information. For this to be the case, they must first
know the web address of the obituary site. Local newspapers have
a limited geographic coverage area. There is no large newspaper
publisher that is in every city. And there is no large funeral home
or funeral conglomerate that handles all the funerals and obituaries
in each city. Prior to ObituariesOnTheNet.com, you would have to
know which funeral home, funeral conglomerate, newspaper or city
website to log onto in order to find the correct website that contained
the correct obituary. Also, publishing obituaries and in memoriams
on the internet is not the core business area of these other sites,
thereby creating time and resource conflicts. Some sites keep obituaries
and in memoriams online for only a short time and some don’t
have a user friendly searchable database even if you did know the
correct website to look-up. Because ObituariesOnTheNet.com has no
corporate or geographic boundaries, we are the only website that
is able to be a universal reference. There is only one website address
you need to know and look up. www.ObituariesOnTheNet.com
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How important is the fact ObituariesOnTheNet.com
is an independent corporation?
One of the reasons an obituary is published is to give notice to
others of the passing of a loved one. That purpose is best served
by one international obituary registry. Some sites have very strong
ties to a particular corporation or newspaper locale. When that
is the case, conflicting entities are less likely to submit the
obituary to their competitors’ sites thereby creating a multitude
of obituary registries. That makes the online obituary only accessible
to those that know the particular website address where the obituary
is published. Because ObituariesOnTheNet.com has no corporate or
geographic boundaries, there is nothing preventing your particular
funeral home from participating which affords ObituariesOnTheNet.com
the advantage of being the a universal, independent obituary and
memorial registry and the only website the public has to know.
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What is interactivity?
Interactivity allows the reader of an online obituary anywhere
in the world to immediately e-mail condolences to the bereaved family.
Charitable donations can be made online from a web page using a
credit card. Families without an email address may have condolences
emailed to ObituariesOnTheNet.com and forwarded to them via traditional
mail.
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Is the cost of $215 reasonable?
A newspaper obituary seldom costs less than $215 for a single
publication which services a single locality. Sometimes the obituary
is shortened in consideration of costs. On ObituariesOnTheNet.com
you can include up to 1 mb of text, pictures, even video and audio
clips. As well, more storage space is available for an additional
charge. An online obituary remains online without additional fees
for a full year and can be revised without additional cost. The
text of an obituary online can by far exceed what is usually available
in the newspaper and photographs are in color. Additionally, interactivity
is a real added value.
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How flexible is the web page search engine?
Criteria for a search are in the absolute control and discretion
of any visitor to our web page. Any word whatsoever that is designated
will result in the list of all obituaries containing that word.
Please note: narrow search criteria will prevent undesired and vague
search results.
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For what time period should an obituary
be online?
For most families one year will be sufficient. After an obituary
has been online for a short while changes can be made to the text
without an additional fee. However, some families may require or
desire a longer or permanent record. A small annual fee will renew
an obituary and a larger one time fee will keep an obituary online
permanently.
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Whose obituaries should be on the Internet?
Even those of us whose lives have been lived in a single place
will have friends, relatives, classmates, business associates, and
acquaintances all over the world. In this day and age a newspaper
obituary is not adequate. It is both affordable, and appropriate
for everyone's obituary to be on the Internet, available to everyone-everywhere.
Proper respect cannot be paid in a single advertisement in a local
newspaper. Although most homes have internet access, even those
without can search ObituariesOnTheNet.com through public access
stations such as internet cafes and libraries.
Importantly, obituaries do not have to be notices of recent deaths.
To respect and honor the memory of someone who passed away months,
or even years ago, an online obituary is really the only resource
available and is preferable to a remembrance notice in a newspaper.
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What about local newspapers whose obituaries are
online?
Local newspaper obituaries are difficult to detect by general
search engines. Also, most importantly, local newspaper archives
are kept online for only a few weeks. The proper approach is to
place an online obituary with a single international repository.
The only international repository presently available is www.obituariesonthenet.com.
Even with obituaries on the funeral home website, they are available
only to those who know what website address to lookup.
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www.ObituariesOnTheNet.com is
the only universal, independent obituary registry.
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