Registration Explained

Milestones Memories Register is the focal point of the website, searchable by any visitor to the site.

Rather than ‘the deceased’  favoured by lawyers or ‘the loved one’ favoured by funral directors we have settled on ‘the subject’ to describe the person whose memory is to be registered. On registering the subject with Milestones you become our ‘customer.’ We use ‘entry’ for any item published in the Register.

The initial registration process is straightforward. Inevitably a form has to be completed and consents given. But we tell you what you will need so you can have everything at hand before you set out.

In the Registration form you are asked for the information we need to prepare the Brief Profile. Your subject’s full name, place of death, then their milestones – dates of birth, and death (required) marriage (if desired) –  together with a mini-obituary running to no more than 300 words. To complete the entry we add an Invitation, to submit Appreciations. In the Team we have Moderators you can approach for help. Use theteam@milestonesscotland.co.uk.

The registration process concludes with the simultaneous appearance of the Brief Profile in the website and our emailed acknowledgement of your registration form giving you the unique Milestones reference (UMR) for your subject. Keep a note of it somewhere safe. It establishes that you are our customer; it is used to Enhance the Profile which is done first  by adding any of the entries we call Tributes or Notices; then  settling on Agreed Content and the terms of the Invitation and Postscript with a Moderator.

In time you may wish to pass your UMR on to another family member or a third party. We will normally accept that person as our customer in your place. Annexed to our Terms & Conditions is a Protocol setting out how we deal with requests.

It is in order to reach our objective of building milestonesscotland.co.uk into ‘an accepted, popular, and reliable source of information for general, biographical, and family research’ that we seek a degree of editorial control of entries through the occasional intervention of a Moderator.