How do I Add a Loved One? You may add Loved Ones to highlight special relationships and people in a person's life.
To add an existing Keeper user:
- Log in to your account
- Navigate to the Memorial page
- Click the Loved Ones tab
- Under the Loved Ones tab, select Edit Love Ones
- Click Create your family tree
or click Add a Loved One
- Type their name or email into the search bar (make sure you use the email associated to their Keeper account!)
- Locate their Keeper profile in the drop down menu below and select it
- Add their relationship to the person being memorialized by selecting from the options available, or by selecting Custom Relationship
- Click Save Loved One to save your work and add this person to Loved Ones
- A request will be sent to the Keeper user to become a Loved One for this Memorial and, once accepted, the relationship will be displayed under Loved Ones
To add a Loved One that is not a Keeper user:
- Log in to your account
- Navigate to the Memorial page
- Click the Loved Ones tab
- Under the Loved Ones tab, select Edit Love Ones
- Click Create your family tree
or click Add a Loved One - Enter some mandatory information about the person you’d like to add — your Loved One cannot be added if the following fields are not filled out:
- Their first and last name
- Their pronouns
- Add their relationship to the person being memorialized
- You can select from the options available, or type in a custom relationship
- You can select from the options available, or type in a custom relationship
- Enter some optional information about the person you’d like to add:
- If the Loved One you are adding has passed away, select Has passed away to be given the option to enter their date of death
- If the Loved One you are adding has not passed away, you have the option to enter their email, which will notify them that you’ve added them as a Loved One and will invite them to join Keeper
- If you would like to add a photo for the Loved One, you can either upload a new photo or choose a photo from Mementos
- To upload a new photo, select Upload new photo and then select the photo you want from your device
- To use a photo already uploaded to the Memorial page, select Choose from Mementos and select the photo
- If you are a Keeper Plus member, you can choose to simultaneously create a Memorial page for this person as well
- Click Save Loved One to save your work and add this person to Loved Ones