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In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the online memorial website Memory Chest Memorials plans to donate half of all sales collected on Jan. 27, 2013 to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Toronto, ON (PRWEB) January 25, 2013 Memory Chest Memorials, an Internet-based memorial website, helps people make connections with friends and family members in the wake of losing a loved one. In addition to providing a much needed support network for people in...

Taking modern technology and marrying it with gravestones and memorials to create a brand new memorial experience. The combination of technology and memorials grant people a lively visit with deceased loved ones for generations. Pulaski, WI (PRWEB) December 28, 2012 Owner of Steiner Media moves into the QR code world of marketing in its newly created company, Steiner Memorials. Steiner Memorials got it's start from the small social media marketing company, Steiner Media, located in...

PRAGUE, September 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MEMMENTO [http://www.memmento.com ], the online cemetery was launched today. MEMMENTO is new and original social platform, which allows people to create an online memorial dedicated to a deceased person. The online memorial on MEMMENTO is a place where memories are kept forever, a place to which family and friends can return to remember their loved ones. Introducing MEMMENTO MEMMENTO allows you to create an online...

NEW YORK, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Memorial, a new web service launching today in New York, is revolutionizing the obituary industry by creating a unique self service tool that gives users the ability to write & publish obituaries for loved ones as if those creating them were accomplished authors. While also cutting the cost of publishing an obituary to fractions of what it would be to print in a local newspaper, Memorial sets out to bring much needed help for those...

SALT LAKE CITY, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Memorial Day is recognized as the gateway to summer, a time more often associated with backyard barbecues, department store sales, or quick vacations. There was a time not too long ago that the last Monday in May held the same parades and patriotism now more commonly shifted to Independence Day. We have moved away from the origins in 1866 -- a day set aside to honor American soldiers who have died in military service. In the early 20th century,...

CHICAGO and GULFPORT, Miss., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) announced today that Memorial Hospital at Gulfport has selected the Company's Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution, with Allscripts Revenue Cycle Management, to enhance the quality of the care delivered by its 100 employed physicians, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery. (Logo:...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Ownlegacy.com, the premier online estate planning and legacy messenger service provider, announced today the launch of their new application based on Facebook, called OwnLegacy Memorials. OwnLegacy Memorials is a tool to create a lasting tribute to a users' dearly departed. It is listed in the applications directory and can be accessed at http://apps.facebook.com/ownlegacy_memorials. The simple interface in creating an entry allow for pictures, videos...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Elegant Memorials is excited to announce the launch of their professionally designed funeral program templates and thank you (acknowledgement) card templates online for immediate download. Elegant Memorials helps families cherish their memories by offering photo-customized funeral program templates and thank you card templates that can be customized on a personal computer and printed on a home printer, or at a print or copy shop. Elegant Memorials...

Various figures of Russian political and public life have paid tribute to Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who died late on 3 August, Russian news agency Interfax reported on 4 August. Solzhenitsyn is a man of unique and tragic fate, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said, as reported Russian Ekho Moskvy radio. Gorbachev said: "There are few people who can be compared to him in terms of what he has done in his life. He overcame all trial and hardships. He was one of the...

By Christine Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Construction on a memorial at the World Trade Center site began on Monday, spurring protests from some relatives of September 11 victims who said the project failed to honor their dead. Officials arguing it was time to move on held a low-key groundbreaking for the $490 million memorial. Later, dozens of relatives of the 2,749 people killed there gathered nearby, shouting, "No underground memorial." The Coalition for 9/11 Families complained the...