Rhoda, Thank you so much for the information.   I will try it. Susan  Mulledy -----Original Message----- From: CandROverson <overson12@btinternet.com> To: irl-longford@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 1:37 pm Subject: Re: [IRL-LONGFORD] Hughes/Kelagher Marriage Dispensation Susan The web address for Scotlands People is: www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk You are charged £6 sterling for 30 credits. It costs 1 credit to look at the indexed results of a search and a further 5 credits to look at an image of a birth, marriage or death certificate. Costs can soon mount up unless you have a clear idea of the year and place of the event; and the names of the people concerned. It is amazing how many people with the same name were born in a wee country like Scotland within the same few years. However if you are successful in finding the correct certificate, you can find out a lot about a person and their background. For example, a birth certificate will give you the time and date of birth, the place of birth, the names of both parents, including the maiden name of the mother, and often the date and place of the marriage of the parents. If the child is illegitimate the certificate will make this clear. A marriage certificate will supply the names of both parents of the bride and groom, including the maiden names of the mothers, and the profession/job of the fathers. Statutory registration began in Scotland in 1855. Before that time, records were maintained in Parish Registers. The information on the Registers is fairly slim, and the handwriting can sometimes be difficult to read. But you can access the images of the Registers on Scotlands People from about 1650 or so onwards. At the moment only Church of Scotland registers are online, but I think that other Protestant church registers and RC registers will be available soon. Rhoda ********************************** Longford Genealogy Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllog/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-LONGFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message