Hi Catherine Unlike English parishes before general registration, very few Scottish parishes maintained death or burial records, and Scotland's People has not published them. Those few that do exist are still held in the GROS but are not accessible on line. Volumes of monumental inscriptions have been published for many Scottish counties, and may be purchased as booklets from FHSs or from the Scottish Genealogy Society. The National Library of Scotland has a set on the open shelves of its Reading Room. These are very useful but are limited to what inscriptions were extant and legible when the surveys were done. Perthshire is well covered by MI volumes. A useful site, for viewing digitised wills, is Scottish Documents at http://www.scottishdocuments.com/ A flat fee of GB£5.00 (US$8.00) will purchase you a copy of any will in the database, which now has 520,000 wills dating from 1500 to 1901. The images are excellent, but reading late C18 and early C19 legal handwriting can be tedious and frustrating. Hope this helps. Peter Peter B Freshwater MA MCLIP FSAScot Edinburgh, Scotland Email peter@hillfoot.demon.co.uk Researching ATKINS, BRUCE, FOX, FRESHWATER, PERKINS, SWINGLER (Beds, Hunts, Leics, & Northants,) HAUGHAN (Cumbria & Co. Durham) DOW, FINDLAY, GRAY, HUNTER, KENNEDY (Angus, Glasgow & Perth) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Catherine Fryer" <nomdeplume@shaw.ca> To: <PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:09 PM Subject: [PERTH] Death records > Have not found any death records for Scotland through the Mormon church. > Just baptismal and marriages. Does Scotland's People have the death > records for the late 1700's on their site? > > Thanks, Catherine > Victoria, BC Canada > > > > > ==== PERTHSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Footer: The Perthshire Mailing List is for the exchange of genealogical and historical information about the Perthshire area of Scotland. > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/PERTHSHIRE.html >

Thanks to Peter, Roslyn and Barbara for helping me. I will contact the Scottish Genealogy Society for MI's for Duntanlich, though this death was between 1788 and 1792 so I know that the chances of a readable tombstone are not great. I did look for a will for an Alexander Forbes in that period, and there were 3, but I'm not sure enough of the courts and the name is pretty common. He probably died young so he may not have made a will. The young were probably just as invincible then as they are now. It states in his widows obit that she was a widow for over 65 years. I did find a will for his son in PEI which was a great help Thanks again, Catherine Peter Freshwater wrote: >A useful site, for viewing digitised wills, is Scottish Documents at >http://www.scottishdocuments.com/ A flat fee of GB£5.00 (US$8.00) will >purchase you a copy of any will in the database, which now has 520,000 wills >dating from 1500 to 1901. The images are excellent, but reading late C18 >and early C19 legal handwriting can be tedious and frustrating. > >Hope this helps. > >Peter > > > > > > > >