Please can anyone give me an idea as to how I can search for a relative? He was born in 1883 in Dundee, Scotland and he sent a photo of himself aged c.30 from a hospital in Marshall, Texas. Thanks Annette ashtonredlin@yahoo.co.uk

> Please can anyone give me an idea as to how I can search for a > relative? He was born in 1883 in Dundee, Scotland and he sent a > photo of himself aged c.30 from a hospital in Marshall, Texas. > > Thanks Annette <ashtonredlin@yahoo.co.uk> Hi Annette The site below is very good, not perfect, but very very good, a few links do go wrong, but I've had excellent service when this happens, send off an e-mail and the Archivists at the Records Office, can find the correct entry and snail mail it to you. The index can be searched free, but there is a cost, albeit a very small cost to view and download the record. 30 Credits cost 36.00 (GBP), to view a record is one credit, if you decide this is the correct person it is a further 5 credits to download and print. (Equivalent to 31.00 per record, if you don't have to view various same named persons, compare that to 13.00 to purchase the extract and it is good value for money). (Below, copied from Scotland Official Records Online Site). A partnership between the General Register Office for Scotland and Scotland On Line, http://www.ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk/ is the official online source of par= ish register, civil registration and census records for Scotland. Containing almost 37 million names, the ScotlandsPeople database is one of the world's largest resources of genealogical information and one of the largest single information resources on the Web. We provide a fully searchable index of Scottish births from 1553-1902, marriages from 1553 to 1854 and deaths from 1855 to 1952. In addition, indexed census data is available from 1881 to 1901. To respect privacy of living people, internet access has been limited to birth records over 100 years old, marriage records over 75 years, and death records over 50 years. >From the results of an index search made on this site you may view, save and print images of many of the original documents, and order extracts of any register entries of interest. Such requests are forwarded automatically to New Register House, and the requested extracts are mailed to you (airmail in the case of overseas orders). The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) administers the registration of events such as births, deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptions, and is responsible for the statutes relating to the formalities of marriage and conduct of civil marriage. They take the decennial census of Scotland's population and prepare and publish demographic and other statistics for central and local Government, for medical research, and for the private sector. They also make available to customers public records about individuals, and maintain for the Scottish Executive the National Health Service Central Register. GROS is headed by the Registrar General for Scotland, John Randall. Hope this helps you Annette, and good luck with finding your family in Scotland. Regards Ava Connelly "Ava Connelly" <aconnelly@blueyonder.co.uk>