sorry guys - didn't mean to send more than once, my dumb browser kept telling me it hadn't sent, but obviously it had!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "ingrid lamberts" <inged@optusnet.com.au> To: <JOHNSTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 3:40 PM Subject: [JOHNSTON] Scottish Records > Hi All - finally glad to have something to contribute, though enjoy > following other people's stories even if not related to mine. > > Scottish records online are actually really good - the key site is > http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/index.php - it's a pay-per-view site but > well worth it. It covers both Old Parish Records (OPRs) and later civil > records between 1553 and (deaths) up to 1953. I use it in conjunction with > the LDS IGI - the trick with the Mormon records is to realise that there > are two types of records on there, 'official' and 'speculative'. That is > to say you will get some with a message along the lines of 'extracted from > birth record' such and such, they are direct transcripts and as such as > reliable as any other source which you don't actually see yourself. The > others are family records or pedigree records which have been submitted by > members of the Church or other interested parties and may or may not be > accurate, but can provide many good leads. There isn't any > cross-referencing which can make things a little tedious when you get many > results for one seemingly specific search and realise ! > they are all about the same person, just that a number of people have made > contributions about them. If you're confronted with a large number of > 'hits', as a general rule, the 'official' entries will have names in all > caps, while many 'manual' entries will be in uppers and lowers - but as I > say, this is a general guide only. > > I'm another Australian (Canberra), but my Johnston link was a 4th > great-grandmother who lived and died in Scotland (she married a Kirkwood, > but it wasn't until they became Gillespie and then Griffin that they came > to Australia). > > Let me know if I can help any more - as I say, it's nice to finally have > something I know a little about!!! > Best of luck > Ingrid > > > ==== JOHNSTON Mailing List ==== > A note re AOL blocking Rootsweb List Mail: > AOL users should not to ever delete mail FROM the spam folder that comes > to them through RootsWeb. Before deleting RW mail, or closing the SPAM > folder, move the RW message to the inbox first by clicking THIS IS NOT > SPAM and then delete it. Otherwise it gets reported to AOL as being spam > and RootsWeb is blamed. To read more and join the discussion, AOL users > are advised to join the AOLers-Rootsweb list: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/AOLers-RootsWeb.html > >