On 31/3/05 2:11 am, "Liz Dempster" <germic90@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > There is a privacy act regarding birth records. Not as I understand it ... However there is great concern about personation, identity theft and money laundering ... So the decision in Scotland that online BMD's indexes are restricted is apparently to make it less easy for those with criminal intent to get this information on living people Personal visitors to the search rooms in Edinburgh will all be identified so they can access all the indeces. Curiously the English and Welsh BMD indexes are available online almost up to the present. Robin -- Robin and Margaret McEwen-King Lanark Scotland