fyi... Jeff Palmer - [email protected] * * * Quote of the Week: “Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” — George R. Kirkpatrick (1867-1937) -----Original Message----- From: ScotlandsPeople [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:28 PM To: ScotlandsPeople Updates Subject: What’s New At ScotlandsPeople ScotlandsPeople wishes everyone all the best for the festive season. *** New Data Announcement*** We are pleased to announce that this year we have received permission to release the new years statutory data earlier than in previous years. Customers can now access, online, records from the Statutory Register of Births for 1906, the Statutory Register of Marriages for 1931, and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1956. Almost 100,000 new index and corresponding image entries have been added to the site, amounting to six gigabytes of data. This is now available at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ ***Major Update of County/District Lists*** In addition to the new data release, we have just deployed the biggest single district list update on the site to date. These include corrections of indexing district names for Statutory Birth, Death and Marriage indexes. Please note that these updates may result in new results appearing in previous searches. As always, we do stress that customers read the extensive help regarding how to best find elusive entries. See, for example, Help with Searching http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=551&556 2007 has been a busy year for ScotlandsPeople with the launch of a major OPR index update, OPR district/county search and the addition of OPR images. RCE images were also added, and the time limit for using credits was extended to 90 days. In response to customer requests, we added ‘Mothers maiden surname’ to the statutory death forms, ‘second person forename’ to the census forms, and improved the ‘previous searches’ and ‘viewed images’ functionality to include filtering and sorting of results. Please note that our help desk is planning to observe the public holidays of 25th & 26th Dec and 1st Jan & 2nd Jan. During this time we will however keep you informed of the site status via the normal online message system. Finally, look out shortly for exciting announcements regarding the addition of the modern indexes to the site. A Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone from ScotlandsPeople. To stop receiving ScotlandsPeople announcements, please log into your account at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk , click on “My Details”, check the opt out of email announcements box and then click on the Update Details button to commit the request. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.11/1200 - Release Date: 12/27/2007 1:34 PM