Liz and Carolyn, Just to clarify a wee bit. There is a 100 year closure on births, 75 years on marriages and 50 years on deaths. However, this only applies on the internet. If you visit New Register House or get a researcher or SKS to search for you the data is available right up to the present. Archie Gilbert, Kinross. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Dempster" <germic90@sympatico.ca> To: <MIDLOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:11 AM Subject: Re: [MLN] birth records > CArolyn: > > There is a privacy act regarding birth records. The Scottish was 100 years, > for births and census. That is why you will only be able to get records up > to 1904. The marriage and death records are less in time, with the > marriages up to the 1920's and the deaths up to 1954. I don't know about > Scotland, but in Canada you can get records if you are a direct descendant. > As the millenium approached we were all waiting for those records to be > released....it answered a lot of questions but created more because now we > all want to find more about the names found in those records. I now know of > so many more names to add and I realize....SOMEWHERE in Scotland, there > could be relatives my age, who just might have stories to share with > me....and I can't find them! > > Researching: DEMPSTER, FRASER, SWAN, LINDSAY, MILL(S), LAING, SYME, > KEMP,BILLSON, COWIE, MONCUR, BRASH, KING, GIBSON, DICKSON. These are the > most recent names. There are more back in the OPR era, but these interest > me most. > > I only started out with Dempster, Lindsay, Mills, Kemp, Fraser and Swan. > > Regards, > Liz Dempster > Southern ON Canada > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "carolyn" <dayc@talk21.com> > To: <MIDLOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:23 AM > Subject: [MLN] birth records > > > > Hello,list > > > > Thank you for the suggestions you have given me. I now know I need to get > hold of the birth certificate for Vera Walker born in 1920. I dont know > when. I went on Scotlandspeople but the records end 1904 - if I have read > that right. Is there a site I can find where and when in 1920? > > > > Carolyn > > > > > >

Archie Thank you. Carolyn ----- Original Message ----- From: Archie Gilbert To: MIDLOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [MLN] birth records Liz and Carolyn, Just to clarify a wee bit. There is a 100 year closure on births, 75 years on marriages and 50 years on deaths. However, this only applies on the internet. If you visit New Register House or get a researcher or SKS to search for you the data is available right up to the present. Archie Gilbert, Kinross. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Dempster" <germic90@sympatico.ca> To: <MIDLOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:11 AM Subject: Re: [MLN] birth records > CArolyn: > > There is a privacy act regarding birth records. The Scottish was 100 years, > for births and census. That is why you will only be able to get records up > to 1904. The marriage and death records are less in time, with the > marriages up to the 1920's and the deaths up to 1954. I don't know about > Scotland, but in Canada you can get records if you are a direct descendant. > As the millenium approached we were all waiting for those records to be > released....it answered a lot of questions but created more because now we > all want to find more about the names found in those records. I now know of > so many more names to add and I realize....SOMEWHERE in Scotland, there > could be relatives my age, who just might have stories to share with > me....and I can't find them! > > Researching: DEMPSTER, FRASER, SWAN, LINDSAY, MILL(S), LAING, SYME, > KEMP,BILLSON, COWIE, MONCUR, BRASH, KING, GIBSON, DICKSON. These are the > most recent names. There are more back in the OPR era, but these interest > me most. > > I only started out with Dempster, Lindsay, Mills, Kemp, Fraser and Swan. > > Regards, > Liz Dempster > Southern ON Canada > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "carolyn" <dayc@talk21.com> > To: <MIDLOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:23 AM > Subject: [MLN] birth records > > > > Hello,list > > > > Thank you for the suggestions you have given me. I now know I need to get > hold of the birth certificate for Vera Walker born in 1920. I dont know > when. I went on Scotlandspeople but the records end 1904 - if I have read > that right. Is there a site I can find where and when in 1920? > > > > Carolyn > > > > > >