Give someone a year of room to remember.
First, the part we always say plainly: remembrance here is free, for everyone, forever. Keeping an archive, inviting family, exporting everything — none of that is ever behind a payment, and a gift is never required.
A gifted archive sponsors a year of the plan features on someone else's archive — the extras, and a share of the cost of keeping this commons running — for a family you love. It's the kind of present that says: their story matters to me too.
Choose an amount, tell us who it's for, and leave a note if you'd like. Payment happens right here — you never leave the site.
Within a day, we prepare the gifted year on their archive — whether they already keep one here or are about to start.
The recipient gets a warm invitation email with your name and your note. No surprise charges, no strings — just a year carried for them.
Questions, or a gift that doesn't fit the form (a memorial collection, a whole community)? The support page explains who runs DearestEllie and how support is used. One plain fact first: DearestEllie is not a 501(c)(3), so gifts are not tax-deductible charitable donations.