Thank you for publishing the National Archives of Scotland e-mail. It is a very helpful document and shows how up-to-date a government agency can be. I have saved it to my Scottish genealogy file area for future reference. When I first started doing Scottish genealogy over 20 years ago one had to travel to Edinburgh to see all the records--and the records in the National Record Office were originals, not even microfilmed. Now we can access them online. The Scottish Record Office next door (now the NAS) was a fantastic minefield of data once you got persuaded the security man that you had questions that could be answered within. But a great many documents are stored "out-with the main building" (to use one of those inimitable Scottish phrases). Obtaining a copy of Tracing your Scottish Ancestors in the Scottish Record Office to plan a trip is a must. /cheers Pat Jeffs