Hi Liz, I have lots of Kemps in the Lasswade, Dalkeith, Penicuik area; do you have details of yours? moira Liz Dempster wrote: >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 >> >> >> > > > > > >