Frequently Asked Questions

Thank you for providing these questions. We hope you find the answers helpful. If not be back in touch! The Team is here to help. We have  arranged your questions according to topics – which follow their order in the main menu and quick links:

Main Menu: Home Page, Services, Search, Register, Enhance, About Us, Contact.

Quick Links Sidebar: Milestones Objectives, Milestones for Research, The Profile Explained, Invitations |Timelines. Funding the Project.

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Question. (W. McW. Brisbane) Ilive in Australia noe but have family I visit back in Scotland. Can I use Milestones?

Answer. You bet, Cobber. No bother. You are part of a family in Scotlnd. But we are accepting entries from customers whose connection to Scotland is more tenuous  than yours.

Question. ( J. B. Stranraer.) You talk about people who were remarkable but unremarked and  whose lives were ‘unsung.’ How do you mean?

Answer.We came up with ‘remarkable but unremarked’ to describe someone whose life was not humdrum, who lived through interesting times, does not figure in any history book but whose story will fascinate their descendants – like Reginald WD Gilbertson . His Profile also features wry appeciations and shows the value of a timeline.

                ‘A life unsung’ comes from Jackie Kay. An example of someone much  loved by family and friends and valued in their community is Mora Munro whose Profile also shows an acknowledgement and a good example of a postscript.

 

Question. (LEM Surbiton) I’m puzzled by ‘admired’ as you use it in phrases like ‘anyone you have come across and admired ‘ I thought Memories was just for families and friends.

Answer. All along we wanted to enlarge the project to bring in anyone with a Scottish connection, either admired in their lifetime, now at risk of drifting into obscurity, or, whose story excited your imagination.

People like Professor John P Mackintosh (who would have been in the running with Donald Dewar for the honour of being Scotland’s first First Minister.) Or like Mary McDonald (who caught the eye and imagination of one of our supporters on the Black Isle.)

Remember the third of our objectives is ‘ to build milestonesscotland.co.uk into an accepted, popular and reliable source of information for general, biographical and family research.’ But yes, certainly, family and friends were, and are, the highest priority. 

 

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 Services

Question. (D L, Dingwall)

Have you thought you might usefully be a place where families could announce the death of a loved one and notify the funeral arrangements?

Answer. Yes. It is something we could do. We feel there is potentially a demand for such a service given the ever-diminishing circulation figures of national and local papers people used to rely on for this. But in the absence of a patron coming forward to back it we will concentrate on Memories until we are financially comfortable.

 

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 Enhance

Question. (F.M. Corstorphine)

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About Us

 

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Objectives

 

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The Profile

 

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Invitations

 

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Timelines

 

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Funding the Project

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Question. In Funding the Project you say Milestones is not aiming for profit. What does that mean?

Answer. Milestones is not a money-making venture. We want to generate enough income to pay our running costs, to refund advances received from supporters to set up the project and to offer payment to those presently volunteering. When that’s done  there will be bonus income. This we plan to share out amongst good causes.

Question. What good causes will benefit from the bonus income ?

Answer. On starting with Milestones each of our volunteer team members nominated a good cause they want to see supported when the project makes a profit. Sustainers are invited to do so too. The list of Good Causes would be circulated to customers regularly. They include Age Scotland, Amnesty, British Red Cross, Macmillan Cancer Support, MSF, Parkinson’s UK, WaterAid.  Distribution will be at the discretion of the board at Annual General Meeting. 

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Thank you all who asked questions. We are ready to answer more.

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?You do not need to be a relative to register a Brief Profile  of a person you feel should be remembered.   explain

There is no charge for Registration of your Brief Profile but you will be asked later, on your enhancing it, if you wish to make a one-off or a regular sustaining donation. [EXPLAIN]Options will be suggested in our email advising you of your UMR  (Unique Milestones Reference) and at the foot of the Enhance the Profile form. See also Funding the Project.)

If you have questions you may find them answered in FAQs. But if not please email us at: contact@milestonesscotland.co.uk, or use our Contact form.

 

 

 

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