Invitations | Timelines
Invitations and Timelines enhance the value of our site for research.
The purpose of the Invitation is to encourage Appreciations from family, friends, colleagues and others.
Invitations may be standard, special or customised. We automatically add either the standard or special invitation to the information you provide in the registration form to create the Brief Profile. The customised invitation is adjusted on your enhancing it. See The Profile Explained.
The standard invitation, used when the brief profile is registered by a family member runs simply:
Appreciations are invited. They should be sent to: registrations@milestonesscotland.co.uk.
The content of Appreciations is subject to the joint approval of Milestones and our customer. This right of editorial control will usually only be exercised when judged necessary for the protection of the good names of the subject and the site. A Moderator from the team may suggest it be used to edit for accuracy or brevity or to create a lighter while still respectful tone.
The longer special invitation, used where the customer initially registering with us is not related to their subject runs:
Appreciations are invited from family members and others, especially those who, like our customer, feel that this is a person who deserves to be remembered and celebrated.
They should be sent to: registrations@milestonesscotland.co.uk.
We have made provision for the possibility of a family member wishing to take on ownership of the profile in a Protocol to our Terms and Conditions.
On a timeline and obituary being registered you may wish to adjust the given standard or special invitation. Our team will readily adjust the terms of a customised invitation with you, fine-tuning the original.
Why would you want to do this? Perhaps:
- to invite members of the extended family or a particular circle of friends to contribute their Appreciations,
- to encourage reminiscences from, for example, old school friends, former colleagues at work, friends made on holiday, or in pursuit of an inerest,
- to ask, for instance, that they should be celebratory, light in tone rather than sombre,
- to invite donations to a good cause championed by their subject.
The content of Appreciations is subject to the joint approval of Milestones and our customer. This right of editorial control will usually only be exercised when judged necessary for the protection of the good names of the subject and the site. A Moderator may suggest it be used to edit for accuracy or brevity or to create a lighter while still respectful tone.
Remember our team is there to help you at theteam@milestonesscotland.co.uk
Timelines
Timelines record key moments of a lifetime in chronological order, easing the flow of the following obituary.
They are a valuable element for research purposes for two reasons. They can suggest new lines of enquiry to the researcher, while events recalled there may prompt Appreciations.
To be of value in research, an entry in a timeline should be capable of verification in some form of public record.
Good examples of Timelines can be found in the Profiles of Mora Munro and Reginald Gilbertson.