Registering

Registering

The process of registering the Brief Profile is straightforward beginning with a form and some consent boxes to be ticked. The form is at the foot of this page.

The Brief Profile consists almost entirely of information submitted by you, the customer. The Invitation, standard or special, is added by us; it can be customised.

The registration form asks you for:

• your subject’s full name, best from the birth certificate;

• the place of death and any other important locations;

• further detail from, usually, the death certificate;

• the other milestones – birth and marriage;

• a short life summary, 50 to 200 words. Think of it as a trailer for the Obituary.

Before we go any further a word about our terminology might help. Instead of  ‘the deceased’ or ‘the loved one,’ we’ve chosen to use ‘the subject’ to describe the person whose memory you want to register. You are our ‘customer,’ we refer to anything published in the Register as an ‘entry. Adding entries, is ‘enhancing the profile.’

You may say this is a real rigmarole to have to go through but remember we are committed to building our website into an accepted, popular and reliable source of information for research. Accurate detail is important.

We’re here to help!

Our experienced moderators are on hand to guide you through the registration process. If we need to make any edits to your text to match our protocol, we’ll always check with you first to make sure you’re happy with the changes. Feel free to reach out to us any time before or during * the registration process at theteam@milestonesscotland.co.uk

Lastly, before you embark on it, the final tip for filling out the registration form is –

Make sure you have everything you need readily at hand – the death certificate if possible, the short life summary and the photograph.

The form anticipates that where the death is a recent one the particulars of death will be from the death certificate in your possession. We look for an explanation if you do not have the death certificate. In certain circumstances, such as where the name is a common one, we may require the particulars to come from a death certificate whose references can be given.

We need the text of the short life summary as plain text or in a Word document—not as an image or PDF.

The photograph  should be iconic.

Registration  of the Brief Profile is free, so you won’t need  to have your  bank  account details at hand —unless you’d like to make a donation. The form does ask… and we do hope….

Once you have completed and submitted the registration form a display on your screen will acknowledge it. Shortly, you’ll receive an email with your Unique Milestones Reference (UMR.) Keep it safe. Confirming your role as our customer, being able to quote it make for ease of dealing with enhancements and formalities. For example – in the future, you might want to pass your customer status on to another family member or a third party.

We anticipate that you will either have the death certificate to refer to in your possession or else you will have access to it, but that is not essential.