Subject: Re: [ORKNEY-L] OPR BIRTHS >Dear Jan, > >Just saw your query about the Kirk Session Records. Almost all of the >extant K.S. records from the many parishes in Scotland have been collected >and now reside in the National Archives of Scotland (formerly the Scottish >Record Office). I'm sorry to report that very few of these have been >microfilmed and none, as far as I have been able to determine, are >available through LDS FHCs. The K.S. records for Orkney have been allowed >to stay in Kirkwall, unlike most of the others, but have not been >microfilmed either. Thus, if those for Walls and Flotta have survived, you >would have to view them there or possibly pay to have photocopies made, but >of which pages? > >Thanks Doug, It is certainly something to keep in mind. I may be able to get a cousin to look at them when she is next goes up to Orkney. Jan Canberra, Aust.>