Enhancing
Enhancing
Having registered your Brief Profile you may want to move straight on to enhancing it or perhaps wait. Our Enhance the Profile form, below, has numerous sections and options but basically is just as simple as initial registration You can register more than one enhancing entry at a time and there is still no charge.* Simply cut and paste your entry or entries into the appropriate space or spaces.
Tributes are the principal form of enhancement, but we also encourage Notices and what we have called ‘Agreed Content.’
It is principally through these enhancements 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.
For simplicity’s sake we call the four following entries-
Tributes
The Eulogy – the most immediate form of tribute, being the address at a funeral or memorial service. The print media rarely accept these but we at Milestones welcome them. They often prompt Appreciations from family or friends present at, or who were unable to be at, the service.
The Obituary, often based on the eulogy, is usually more reflective and detailed, expanding on the content of the short life summary you gave us for the Brief Profile. We urge customers submitting an obituary to precede it by a Timeline.
A Timeline can usefully record key moments of a lifetime in chronological order, easing the flow of the following obituary. To be of value in research, an entry in a timeline should be capable of verification in some form of public record. We encourage Timelines because:
- events recalled there may prompt Appreciations;
- they can suggest new lines of enquiry to the researcher;
- they are useful to anchor successive photographs of the subject;
Appreciations allow family, friends, colleagues of someone recently lost to pay their respects by contributing their recollections in remembrance, Additionally, family, friends, former colleagues or admirers of someone longer gone, may register Appreciations, choosing perhaps a date of significance to both to do so.
Please be aware. Customers share with Milestones the right of editorial control of the content of Appreciations. This is to protect the good names of both the subject and the site. Our protocol on content assists customers and contributors drawing up Appreciations. Moderators from the team are ready to assist. Find them at theteam@milestonesscotland.co.uk.
Our policy is to encourage, as further enhancements, any relevant material which future researchers might find informative. Such as:
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 relatives likely to appeal 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. It may be the source of the photograph you chose to accompany the short life summary. If it is your wish we will display it in full or in part.
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 welcome too.
A proviso for 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 for our requirements.
Agreed Content
As the name indicates these last two enhancements are a matter of agreement reached between Customer and Milestones. The text suggested by you in the form can be adjusted in an exchange of emails with theteam@milestonesscotland.co.uk
A Customised Invitation. TheInvitation to submit Appreciations is standard with Brief Profiles. But later you may want to substitute a customised version, for instance, to attract appreciations or photographs from a particular source or sources. This can be worded to your requirements.
A Postscript, if desired, may be adjusted between us to round off the Profile. You may wish to use it:
- to ask visitors to the Profile for information or;
- to direct them to other places where information about your subject can be found ;
- to try to re-establish contact with distant or lost family, old friends or former colleagues.
* The form will ask you for a donation or to become a sustainer of the site.