What You Will Need

Registration in Milestones Memories Register is simplest where the death is recent and you have the death certificate. We ask for an explanation if no certificate is available.

We strongly suggest that you do not set out to complete your Memories Registration form until you have everything you need by you, starting with the certificate (or the explanation.)

Our form requires the relevant information from the certificate. 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. Think of it as a summary of the anticipated obituary. Do not submit text for it inside an image or a PDF; we need it either in a word document or text file.

A postal address is useful in case of future difficulty with your given email address.

Guidance on format and content, and requirements for photographs, can be found in theprotocol on content.One classic photograph is accepted in the Brief Profile.If you wish to incude a photograph it should also be at hand, in the appropriate format.

If we edit the text you have provided to comply with the protocol a member of the Team, a Moderator, will clear this with you and agree the wording.

We add a standard or a special Invitation to the Brief Profile.

You will not need to have your bank account details to hand unles you wish to make a donation. Registration is free of charge. (But you will be asked later, on your enhancing the Brief Profile, if you wish to make a one-off or a regular sustaining donation. Options will be suggested in our email advising you of your  unique Milestones reference (UMR) and at the foot of  Enhance the Profile. See also  Funding the Project.)

More.

To help you prepare the mini-obituary you might find it useful to browse the Milestones Memories Register.

  • Reginald WD Gilbertson.could be described as ‘remarkable but unremarked.’
  • Mora Munro  may be said to have led ‘a life unsung.’
  • John P Mackintosh, justly prominent only a couple of generations ago, is an example of a registration by an admirer who felt Professor Mackintosh should not be allowed to ‘drift into obscurity.’
  • Mary McDonald caught the eye and admiration of a supporter.