A page for every person who shaped your family.

You start with the basics: their full name, a photo, who they are to you and their dates. The relationships are parent, sibling, child, spouse or partner, grandparent, auntie or uncle, extended family and friend, and your Loved Ones page groups everyone under those headings. Dates go in as DD/MM/YYYY. Leave the date of death empty and the page shows them as Living, with their age worked out for you.

From there, each profile becomes a page of its own, with:

• An “About them” line of up to 120 characters, prompted with “[Name] is…”.
• Their life status and span: Living or Forever Remembered, with the year they were born and, where it applies, the year they died.
• A birthday countdown for someone living, such as “turns 80 in 12 days”.
• Their life story in four chapters, each with its own photo.
• Connected Memories: every timeline, album and capsule tagged with them, with shortcuts to add more.

Yes. Add their date of death and the page changes with it: their life status reads Forever Remembered, the span shows the years they lived, and the page describes itself as a dedicated space to preserve their story, albums, moments and messages for the future.

Keeping a bond with someone who has died has a place in grief research. In 1996, Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman and Steven Nickman published Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief, which challenged the dominant 20th-century model that the purpose of grief is to “cut bonds with the deceased”. The book argued that a healthy resolution of grief lets people keep a continuing bond with the person who died, and that “such bonds are not denial”.

It works just as well for the living. A page made now for a parent or grandparent can be filled in with them, and the chapter questions make a natural conversation. Our list of questions to ask your parents about their life has thirty more.

Only the people in your family space. Loved Ones pages live in My Family, the private side of Ancestorii, where everyone you invite can see everything and nobody else can. They do not appear on Our Stories, the public story feed, and they never show up in search results.

There is no public version of a Loved Ones page. If you want to share part of someone's story more widely, you can write it as a story on Our Stories, which is a separate step you take on purpose, and you can take it down at any time.

Cruse Bereavement Support describes a memory box as “a simple way to remember someone who has died”. Its other suggestions include speaking to people who knew them, making a photo collage, writing them a letter, choosing a day each year to dedicate to them (perhaps their birthday), cooking their favourite food and learning their favourite song.

Several of those carry over to a family library. A collage can become an album tagged with their name. A letter can go into a capsule that opens on their birthday. A timeline can set out their life in order, and relatives can add voice notes with their own memories of them. A printed Memory Book, from £44.99 plus delivery, turns the photos and words into something to hold. Andrea, from Dudley, made one about her late dad: “It captured the essence of him and the life he lived.”

Our guide to keeping the memory of a loved one alive goes further.

On the Free plan, a family can add 1 loved one. Premium, at £3.99 a month for the whole family rather than per person, removes the limit and raises storage from 1 GB to 100 GB. If you try to add a second profile on Free, the website tells you that you have reached your plan's limit. The full plan details are on the pricing page.

Loved Ones are profiles of the people in your story. They are not the same as the family members you invite into your space, and there is no cap on those. Albums, timelines and capsules are unlimited on both plans. If you ever cancel Premium, nothing is deleted: existing profiles stay, and only adding new ones beyond the Free limit stops.

The pieces of a person usually end up scattered: photos on several phones, stories in a few people's heads. A Loved Ones page gives them one home that grows each time an album, timeline or capsule is tagged with their name. It stays private to your family and works for the living as well as the dead. If the words will not come, Story Assistance, Ancestorii's optional AI writing help, can suggest prompts for each of the four chapters, and you decide what to keep.

What it is not: a family tree, a genealogy research tool or a public tribute page.