Barbara Nellesen wrote: >Thank you Gavin. >Re: death records at SP - I was posting my correction when your message >was coming in...Thank you! >Re: The burial grounds site - which is great I might add and another >THANK YOU! I have the AA153 (Lhanbryde) and AA182 (St Andrews Kirkhill) >MI booklets - no entries for either one. >I have checked the MI index at the ANESFHS site and could not find >either one at Urquhart - Old and New. >I checked the Birnie and Spynie burial ground at the MBGRG site. Both of >these are online. No entries - Just in case buried elsewhere. > > In view of what Anne has posted in the meantime, the following remarks may be academic - but all the sources you mention above are all concerned with Memorial Inscriptions. Now, these are a useful source of information, but are only one of three different kinds of data which *may* exist, concerning deaths. The other two are (1) plain records of deaths (such as are found on the OPR films for some parishes pre-1855) and (2) Lair Records (which are found typically for burial grounds from the later 19th century, although some are earlier) which record who bought a specific burial plot, and who was put in it. These different records are quite independent of each other, and may not all be available for a given death (although where they are, it is not unknown for the one to contradict the other...) But of the three, it is generally only the MI records that can easily be located online or in printed transcription. The other two are generally not currently available online (other than post-1855 deaths) but need to be looked for on OPR microfilms, or in paper records held by Local Authorities (who, since 1930, have been responsible for almost all burial grounds). Gavin Bell

Hello Gavin, Thank you for the information. I appreciate the help of people like you and Anne who have such a wealth of knowledge. Barbara Gavin Bell wrote: > In view of what Anne has posted in the meantime, the following remarks > may be academic - but all the sources you mention above are all > concerned with Memorial Inscriptions..... > > .....The other two are generally not currently > available online (other than post-1855 deaths) but need to be looked for > on OPR microfilms, or in paper records held by Local Authorities (who, > since 1930, have been responsible for almost all burial grounds). > >