Tributes Explained

Here we explain how to enhance the Brief Profile you have registered. We are pleased to accept the addition into Profiles of not only the conventional forms of tribute but also of entries falling into categories we call Notices and Agreed Content.

Tributes

We use Tributes to cover eulogies, appreciations and obituaries – and we strongly encourage customers to introduce obituaries with their subject’s timeline.

The Eulogy is the most immediate form of tribute, being the address at a funeral or memorial service. The print media rarely accept them but they are welcome in milestonesscotland.co.uk. The eulogy may prompt Appreciations from family or friends present – or who were unable to be there.

Appreciations allow family, friends, colleagues of someone they have just lost to  pay their respects by contributing their own recollections in remembrance, whether immediately following on the death or later, choosing perhaps a date of significance to both. While friends, former colleagues or admirers of someone longer gone, not necessarily a relative, may equally register Appreciations. Remember, the latter may also create Brief Profiles as described here.

Customers share with Milestones the right of editorial control of  the content of Appreciations. Our Protocol on content assists customers and contributors drawing up Appreciations. Its intent is to protect the good name of both the subject and the site. Moderators from the Team are ready to assist. Find them at theteam@milestonesscotland.co.uk.

The Obituary, often based on the eulogy, is usually more reflective and detailed, expanding on the mini-obituary of the Brief Profile. We urge customers submitting an obituary to precede  it by a Timeline of the principal events in their subject’s lifetime. Photographs are encouraged in Timelines. Another protocol offers guidance on how to submit text and images.

The timeline, obituary and appreciations are the elements of the profile most useful for the researchers of the future. It is principally through them that we aim to achieve our objective of building milestonesscotland.co.uk into an accepted, popular and reliable source of information for general, biographical and family research.

 Notices

The Death Notice is likely to have been carefully composed with the assistance of your funeral director. It may have been placed in your local newspaper and in local shops. We readily display it, given that it often contains references to the surviving, grieving, relatives which will be of interest to family researchers of the future.

The Order of Service too will have exercised the family’s recall, patience and, very likely, capacity to compromise. If you wish we will display all or parts of it in the Profile.

A proviso for both  these Notices is this – while they are likely to exist in a format akin to photographs and will thus be acceptable, it would be wise to check the Protocol.

Acknowledgements of thanks to those who were particularly involved helping the family at the time of their bereavement, which also feature in local newspapers, are accepted too. 

The Enhance the Profile and Add a Notice forms are straightforward but check What you will require.

Agreed Content

An Invitation to submit Appreciations is standard with Brief Profiles. But later you may want to substitute a customised version, for instance, to attract appreciations from a particular source or sources. This can be done to your requirements as explained here.

A Postcript, if desired, is adjusted between us. We encourage it for the sake of future researchers. (This Profile  RWDG has good examples of both a Timeline and a Postscript.) You may wish to use  your postscript to try to re-establish contact with lost family members, friends or former colleagues.

As the name indicates these entries are a matter of agreement reached between Milestones and  their customer, adjusted in an exchange of emails with theteam@milestonesscotland.co.uk.

If you have any questions please send them to contact@milestonesscotland.co.uk. or to  the Team.Your question, anonymised, may be used in FAQ.