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2013

May 09, 2013 - Legacy.com Acquires UK-Based Web Announcements Ltd.

Legacy.com, Inc., the leading provider of online obituary solutions in the U.S., today announced it has acquired Web Announcements Ltd, the parent company of iAnnounce (www.iAnnounce.co.uk), the European leader in online obituaries and family announcements.

Apr 09, 2013 - Legacy.com Honored with Webby, Eppy Awards

Legacy.com, Inc., the leading provider of online obituary solutions in the U.S., has been selected as an Official Honoree of the 17th Annual Webby Awards in the Social Media category.

2012

Apr 06, 2012 - Great Hill Partners Acquires Legacy.com

Legacy.com, the market leader in the online obituary space, announced today that is has been acquired by Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm with over $2.5 billion under management.

2010

Jun 17, 2010 - Editor & Publisher Honors Legacy.com With 2010 EPpy™ Award

Legacy.com has been honored as the best overall newspaper-affiliated Web site in its class. The recognition came in the form of a 2010 EPpyTM Award, presented by Editor & Publisher magazine at a ceremony held June 17th in Las Vegas during the 2010 Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show.

2009

Oct 27, 2009 - Batesville Casket and Legacy.com Partner to Create the Largest National Online Obituary Network, Linking Funeral Homes and Newspapers

Legacy.com is partnering with Batesville Casket Company, the largest provider of hosted funeral home websites in the U.S., to give funeral homes access to the largest nationally networked obituary system.

2008

Oct 09, 2008 - Legacy.com Inks International Deals

Legacy.com, Legacy.com has joined forces with the largest daily newspapers in Australia and Canada and some of the largest papers in Ireland.

Jun 17, 2008 - Legacy.com Launches the Most Comprehensive Memorialization Portal On the Web

Legacy.com, the Web’s dominant obituary resource and the leader in online memorialization, has launched an enhanced portal that builds upon its affiliation with more than 650 U.S., Canadian and British newspapers.

Apr 28, 2008 - News International becomes Legacy.com’s latest affiliate

Legacy.com, which hosts online obituaries, memorials, and other family announcements for more than 650 U.S., Canadian and United Kingdom newspapers has attracted one of Europe’s leading newspapers and online brands as an affiliate.

Apr 28, 2008 - Legacy.com achieves milestone: 650 newspaper affiliates

Legacy.com — which collaborates with newspapers to offer their obituaries online and to provide newspaper readers with new ways to share their remembrances of loved ones, has affiliated with its 650th newspaper.

2007

Dec 27, 2007 - What do Anna Nicole Smith and Jerry Falwell have in common … at year-end?

Former Playboy playmate and E! reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith and televangelist and Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell had little in common in life, but they share a distinction in death.

Nov 02, 2007 - Fallen soldiers remembered in new twist on 21st Century grieving

Although 29-year-old Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy of Long Island was killed in Afghanistan almost two-and-a-half years ago, a week scarcely goes by without someone – a friend, fellow soldier or complete stranger – remembering him ... online.

May 25, 2007 - Military Families Turn to Online Memorials to Remember the Fallen

When Indianapolis resident Peggie Writtenhouse mourns her brother, Army Master Sgt. James F. “Fred” Hayes, a father of five killed serving his second tour of Operation Iraqi Freedom, she can’t easily visit his gravesite in a Kentucky veteran’s cemetery.

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