This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gbell152 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.scotland.ans.general/5515.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.3.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: You wrote: "But I or we were allowed to look for a birth I was sure of, from other sources, and it hadn't made it to Edinburgh." The chances that the copy Register 'did not make it to Edinburgh' are nil. The local Registrars were subject to regular (usually annual) inspection, and if the first copy did get lost in transit, then the Registrar General would promptly require the creation of a new copy. It is simply not credible that a gap in the records could have occurred. What can happen is that entries in the paper Registers get missed or mistranscribed in the process of indexing, and consequently do not turn up as expected as the result of a search on Scotlandspeople. An informative and well-illustrated account of the GROS and its records, both pre- and post-1855, is available as "Jock Tamson's Bairns" (ISBN 1 874451 59 1) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.