Jackie, Just out of curosity, do you have an email address for the Scottish Registrar General. I have not got nearly as close as you to uncovering specific records but would like to stash that address away for future reference. Someday I might get there. Would this Registrar General have records for just certain parishes or all of Scotland or Orkney. Dan Grant Researching Groat, Grant, Heddle ----- Original Message ----- From: Jackie Middleton <jackiemiddleton@home.com> To: <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 6:03 PM Subject: [ORKNEY] document advice > I've been pretty successful ordering exact certificates from the Scottish > Registrar General. > > The next document that I'd like to get - a birth certificate - I have all > the info (parents, place, year) but the *exact* day. > I was hoping that someone on the list might know if I could still order this > certificate. In the papers that I have from their website, > it sounds like they would search their records for a time frame of a year, > but I'd like to know if anyone on this list has requested > a certificate with this one piece of info missing. > > Jackie