Gavin, My MIs are the same as yours. (Mitchell) Mostly pre-1855 but there are exceptions. The notes in these same books have the other documents...I also found the SCRAN website actually had images of the documents. Rhonda thought that the census location might be Whiteley and then decided it was Whitelea. I wanted her to know that I found a document that shows Whiteley. Barbara's family lived Wolfhill so I knew before doing the MIs that some of the graves were her family. MIs have decoration details like mortality symbols, skulls, skeleton, hourglass (called sandglasses), angels. Initials the old way of imortalizing the person before names were cheap enough to carve. Spouse (in parenthesis) and imo in memory of. fr= from house or farm name. fa father and m mother. I also told her to look at the RCAHMS for text and photos on estates and castle... but I have found lots of little parish churches. The stone books like Scottish Epitaphs by Betty Willsher (who works for RCAHMS) is an example of their good works. I have one relative who collected cup marked stones and places them in his garden and when I contacted the RCAHMS they wanted the photos.. taken by Anne Burgess of the Angus list for me.. to be submitted so they had something on that estate. (Reswallie in Rescobie parish) He was an amatuer archiologist and I found some of his papers at British Library. You just have to be willing to look everywhere. SCRAN is the Scottish Cultural Resource Archive network and has photos searchable by Keyword. Village and parish churches, tools for professions like brickmakers, Kilns, etc. Searching by surname gave me family photos, old Dundee businesses owned by 'rellies'. SCRAN sells excellent CDs on history... and I know I tout them in several emails... and appologize for doing it again.. but it is just that good a source. You need a subscription to see full document or photos and the text.. but you can search and see thumbnails without a subscriptions. The Scotsman Newspaper archive is part of their holdings. RCAHMS Royal Commission of Ancient and Historic Monuments in Scotland... if it is architecture, they collect text from books and photos, business documents even aerial photos of castles and estates. Village and parish churches included and celtic stone circles, even gravestones. You have to register to use the site but it is free. I order holdings of what they have and then order photos after seeing which intrigues me. They do slides, actual photo prints or put them onto CD for you. So the same books you have are my only source besides the excellent websites. The notes section also give the earlier surveys of stones so that a person could go to find one that is now to old/worn/broken to read. I use the MI books more for the notes than for the stones of my Powrie/Pourie families. Out of the 16,000 Scottish born Powries I have found 179 stone entries. (So you can see how slim a chance is for a rellie to even have a stone.) less than 1% When in Salt Lake, I spent two days just looking through their books on Scotland. They have a Smith Inventory that lists all book entries in these indexes essentially. One of the sets I tried to go through was their excellent collection of Mitchell books for other County/Shires. Untill I looked at the SCRAN annexed estate document, I did not know that such records existed with people's names and what they paid in rent, and other personal data. I will put this out to the list in case it helps others. Sorry if I put people to sleep. Mary in Oregon