Milestones for Research

It is the ambition of Milestones Scotland to become accepted as a popular and reliable source of information for general, biographical and family research. We believe that the site, well-managed and maintaining high standards, will provide a novel and compelling service for researchers. Under the main menu title SEARCHING you will  find general instructions on how to use the website for research. Invitations and Timelines are designed to attract customers with a bent for research.

Whether you want to start your own piece of family history or take steps to see to it that someone you have admired, now scarcely remembered, is not neglected, Milestones is for you.

Family Resarch.

Do you have a family member who was ‘remarkable but unremarked’, or who, in the words of the poet ‘led a life unsung?’ Would you like to see their story online for succeeding generations?

Our website milestonesscotland.co.uk gives every family in Scotland, and beyond, the opportunity to place on permanent record their appreciation of a loved one. It enables the memory of a member of your family to be cherished, whatever their distinctiveness, no matter how long ago their death.

Most family research is necessarily confined to searching records. Illuminating and fascinating as these may be, they cannot convey a truly personal picture. Profiles in our Memories Register offer just that. A brief profile captures the essence of the subject; eulogies convey the immediate sense of loss; obituaries provide a more considered assessment. Customising the invitation following an obituary and adjusting the text of the postscript afford the customer opportunities to attract interest from people and places of their choice. Appreciations can paint vivid pictures of loved ones in the words of those near and dear to them. Details in timelines will fascinate and excite the imagination.

To check if an ancestor or other member of your family is already in our Memories Register, consult the Index. The Register will direct you to the subject’s Profile which contains all the information we hold. Having read it you may wish to submit an Appreciation of your own. You are welcome to do so. Be guided by the information in the main menu page TRIBUTES AND MORE.

Have you a forebear in mind, perhaps already researched by yourself or a family member, who you believe deserves a place in our Memories Register? Then – Welcome to Milestones. Read up what to do and find the form in the main menu topic REGISTERING.

Milestones for General Research

Milestones also provides a platform where people, not related to their subject, can create a Profile for anybody from Scotland or with a Scottish connection. Those not related to a subject are equally as welcome as family members to become Milestones customers. To check if the person in whom you are interested is already in our Memories Register, consult the Index. The Register will direct you to the subject’s Profile which contains all the information we hold.

Is there someone, perhaps from your own earlier years or longer ago, whom you admired, who was an influence in your life? Someone you got to know from contact or admired through reputation, prominent in their time, now at risk of drifting into obscurity? If you feel the memory of that person should not be lost, their reputation, achievements worth recalling and celebrating, then – Welcome to Milestones. Read up what to do, how to do it, and find the form you’ll need in the main menu topic REGISTERING.

In Protocols appended to our Terms and Conditions you will find provision we have made to deal with the situation where a member of your subject’s family makes contact with us and wishes to become our customer in your place.