Source:Legacy.com

Legacy.com was founded in 1998 and is the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials (as of 2009). The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths (as of 2009). Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation (as of 2008). The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked Web sites in the world (as of 2009).

Legacy.com is a privately held company based in Chicago, Illinois with more than 1,500 newspaper affiliates in North America, Europe and Australia, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Manchester Evening News.