I got this from another list. Might help some of you tracing in Scotland. > > 1. In my local LDS Family History Centre there is a CD which has the Old > > Parish Register (OPR) entries, from the 1600's to 1855. > > > > 2. There are also fiches of the Old Parish Registers. indexed by County, - > > marriages and births indexed by given name and surname > > > > 3. There is the 1881 Census on fiche > > > > 4. There are films of the Indexes to Scottish Civil Records , from 1855 to > > 1901. > > > > 5. There is the IGI and Ancestral File on CD. ========================================================================== > Here is a wee grab-bag of other Scotland sources at FH Centres: > > 6. British Isles Vital Records, on 5- CDs > 7. Family History Library Catalogue, gives the microfilm Call Nos, for > all of the Registers that have been extracted into the IGI and OPR > Index. Follow the string LOCALITY-SCOTLAND-(county name)- (parish name)- > CHURCH RECORDS > 8. FHL Catalogue, also gives the microfilm Call Nos for other Registers > that are NOT extracted as yet. And that includes DEATHS, BURIALS. Not > all! But many....... > 9. A fiche set PARISH AND VITAL RECORDS gives Registers' Call Nos as for > 7 above PLUS it tells you a. which of those were not extracted into the > IGI, and b. the Call Nos for PRINTOUTS of the parish registers. See > below! > 10. The 1881 Census is on two CDs as well as on fiche, ref. 3. above > > PRINTOUTS. Most folk do not understand what LDS means, by the term when > applied to Registers. It is not a paper copy of the original image, it > is a microform of a transcribed register, archived as fiche or film. > > The PRINTOUT is alpha ordered instead of being in date sequence. It is > handy for doing a single family sweep of the Register, because the > searched surname will be found compressed onto a page or two. It is so > darn boring to browse a register in poor handwriting, compiled in date > order. Plus the printout tells more than the IGI. For many registers > there is a printout but no IGI coverage.