Help Us Design Our New Legacy Planning Feature
At Permanent, we believe that everyone leaves a legacy that deserves to be preserved. This year, the Permanent team has been working hard to design our new Legacy Planning feature.…
August 16, 2022
Guiding Our Members to Achieve Their Goals
We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Kaitlyn Jarnagin, our Member Success Manager. This post is co-written by Robert Friedman, our Executive Director and Kaitlyn.…
July 26, 2022
There’s More in Store for Our Members
We are excited to announce the release of our Permanent.org Product Roadmap – an outline of our development plans to make Permanent.org a more robust and easy to use platform…
July 22, 2022
Story Gathering: The Coming Together of Shared Memories
Which comes first, the photo or the memory?…
June 28, 2022
The Letter
Take an old letter, add some photographs, and create a place for family to share stories.…
May 26, 2022
Stories unfold in pictures shared
Where do family stories come from? How do they come to you? Were they shared? Created by you? Or based on personal experience, researched documented fact, or maybe a piece…
May 4, 2022
Searching for Lost Stories Together
Inside every genealogist is a storyteller waiting to be set free When I first embarked on my family tree journey two years ago, I began with a faded Xeroxed copy of…
April 14, 2022
Welcome Amanda Meeks, Our New Community and Partnerships Manager
This is a co-authored piece by Robert Friedman, Executive Director, and Amanda Meeks, the new Community and Partnerships Manager at Permanent. Amanda’s goal is to foster lifelong relationships with our…
March 2, 2022
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