Hi all, I guess there are many on list with Scottish connections who may not know of this further improvement on the already good services offered. See below. Jill Norfolk,UK. September 2004 Update - The Future of ScottishDocuments.com IMPORTANT NOTICE The Future of ScottishDocuments.com New Scottish family history service The Scottish Archive Network is co-operating in the setting up of a new Scottish Family History Service, to be fully operational in 2006, which will create a 'one-stop-shop' for genealogy research by bringing together services currently provided separately by project partners the National Archives of Scotland, General Register Office for Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. There will be a family history 'campus' based around the General Register House and New Register House buildings in Edinburgh. Early in 2005, the Scottish Wills index and image ordering service will transfer from ScottishDocuments.com to the ScotlandsPeople website at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. You will continue to be able to search the index of Scottish wills, 1500-1901, view the wills of famous Scots and use the research tools free of charge. The benefits of the new site will be its improved availability and ease of navigation, together with access to the records of our project partner! s. What will happen next? In simple terms, the ScotlandsPeople website will begin delivery of the online Scottish Wills service (previously delivered by the Scottish Documents website) at some point in 2005. The precise handover date has not been decided yet, but is expected to be somewhere between January and April 2005. The two sites will probably work in parallel for a while, but at some point in 2005 the ScottishDocuments.com website will cease to provide an ordering service for wills and testaments and this will be handled solely by the ScotlandsPeople website. It has yet to be decided whether the ScottishDocuments website will continue, perhaps offering access to other types of historical record. We will keep you informed of developments and give you plenty of notice of any changes. If you are an existing ScottishDocuments customer . . . If you are a customer of ScottishDocuments you may already have received an e-mail informing you of the change and asking for permission to opt in to the new service. If you have not received this e-mail it may be because: a.. you are not a customer of ScottishDocuments.com, or b.. you have not kept us up-to-date with a change of e-mail address, or c.. your Internet Service Provider has blocked our e-mail, because it has mistaken it for spam. If you are a customer of ScottishDocuments.com and have not been contacted we need permission to transfer your account details to Scotland on Line. If you already have an account on the ScotlandsPeople website with the same e-mail address, then this will be integrated with your ScottishDocuments account. Please note that no financial information about previous transactions is retained by ScottishDocuments. To give your permission and OPT IN to the new website please click on the following link: http://www.scottishdocuments.com/content/optin_emailform.asp or log in to your ScottishDocuments account by clicking on the 'Your Account' tab at the top of every page on http://www.scottishdocuments.com and then entering your e-mail and password. If you DO NOT WISH your account to be transferred to the new service you will continue to have access to its contents on http://www.scottishdocuments.com until early in 2005. Thereafter, the account will be closed, so it is important that you download all the images in it to your own computer or print them off. You will be given advance notice of the precise closure date nearer the time. If you are not a ScottishDocuments customer . . . If you are not a customer of ScottishDocuments.com (but have registered with us for news updates, and hence received this news bulletin) you need do nothing. We will keep you informed of developments between now and the hand-over to ScotlandsPeople. With thanks the Scottish Wills team http://www.scottishdocuments.com