To clarify the facts re OPRs, here are some basic points; 1. Baptism was almost always done as infants, as to have a child die unbaptised was a constant fear among families. 2. Baptism REGISTERS do not always have the fact of a baptism recorded at the time. If the minister forget to fill in the register, one can sometimes find when another child is baptised, the earlier child (or children) are listed as well, so the IGI/scotlandspeople date would be THAT date, and not the (sometimes unknown)date when the baptism actually occurred. There are many gaps in baptismal registers, partly forgetfulness, partly people not wishing the baptism to be registered, partly (for a few years) the tax payable on registrations. 3.Baptisms and marriages were often long neglected in the registers - I know of one parish with a 50-year gap in the marriage register. 4. Marriages are NOT what was actually being recorded in the "marriage" register. It was officially a record of the banns of marriage being called in the parish church, as this was a Scottish legal requirement before marriage. As a result, the date most often found is the date of the banns being called; you may or may not find the marriage date also recorded. 5. Two marriage entries. One often in the indexes finds two marriage entries, in different parishes. This is the banns being called in two parishes, where bride and groom are resident in different parishes. 6. Deaths and gravestones: Most parishes have defective death registers, if any. Deaths were not regarded as necessary to be recorded, as there was no legal, monetary, or religious aspect to deaths. In the whole of Caithness (where I now live) only one parish register contains any death record. Even where they exist, it may be merely names and dates of either death, or burial, or perhaps a fee for the use of the mortcloth, or coffin accounts. Don't expect much, certainly not parents of adults, and often not even the parents of a child death. These are a few thoughts, based on decades of experience... Gordon Johnson <www.kinhelp.co.uk>