>Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:08:36 -0700 -- Barbara Lewis wrote: >John, we're not as lucky as the English researchers, who find burial records >among the Christenings and marriages in the parish records. In Scotland we >find only the Christenings and marriages. They may be some burials, but I >personally I haven't found any. If anyone else out there has, let us all >know. >Barbara Lewis I've had pretty good luck by getting the microfilm of the parish records where people lived and going through searching whatever death records are on the microfilm. I've found enough entries to make it worth my while to keep looking each time I get an film of the actual registers. However, then death entry almost always has only name and date, or the father's/parents' name(s) if a child -- none of the other information on the later civil death records. Also, if there are death entries for relevant years, I find it worth skimming through in case there are other people of the same name (so I know to watch out not confusing my guy with someone else) and if, for a period of years, there are death records but not my guy then it could be an indicator he didn't die there and to then start looking for an immigration or census indexes (if available) for a move to another location in Scotland. Then there is the human interest items which show up once in a while and make interesting reading (and background for reconstructing life of that era) -- like the death record that notes total 90 deaths from cholera this year, and the next year 63 deaths from cholera, during an epidemic. Or, so and so and so were in boat which capsized and all were drowned. Or Mrs. so and so killed by so and so's brother who has now fled to Ayr or somewhere. So the death records are skimpy, but as I'm getting the microfilm of the parish record anyway to get a print of the birth or marriage record (and see what additional info may have been noted therein not showing up on the index or IGI or whatever) -- I always check out what the death entries say for the parish. After all, there's not much to look through! Dibby __________________________ Dibby Allan Green Santa Barbara, California <green@taxlawsb.com>