Listers...I picked up this info from "Anne" on the Lanark list and want to share it...many of you, like me, and not finding your kin in the "Scottish Records" or GRO or "Scots Origins"...please read this: "The GRO (General Register Office) holds only the parish registers of the Church of Scotland, and these are all indexed (barring errors) on Scots Origins. There are extant registers from other churches, but these are held by the Scottish Record Office (SRO), not by the General Register Office. The Scottish Record Office is now known as the National Archives of Scotland (NAS), and they live in a different building from the GRO (next door, but still a separate building). These other churches' registers are not generally indexed and they are not included in Scots Origins. Only those that have been INDEXED are accessible from New Register House", but he is incorrect in saying that not all the OPRs held by the GRO are indexed on Scots Origins, since the ones which are not indexed are not held by the GRO but by the SRO/NAS. Incidentally all those registers indexed on Scots Origins can also be consulted on microfilm at FHCs as well as in New Register House (where the GRO lives). I hope that this will clarify the matter!" (I know now that to find those that were not of the Church of Scotland, I will have to visit the "Old Register House" or National Archives, next door to the New Register House, when I go to Scotland next. I should have done that last visit and didn't know this.) Barbara Lewis Dunbartonshire Scotland GenWeb Home Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctdnb/index.htm Wigtownshire Scotland GenWeb Home Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctwig/wigtown.html Hartwick Surname Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Hartwick _______________________________________________________ Site Design, Hosting, and E-Commerce at www.webpipe.net