This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10003.1 Message Board Post: The General Registry Office for Scotland maintain an index to the Old Parish Registers. Kathleen Cory's book "Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry" states that this index is based upon the indexing done by the LDS for the IGI. Although the two have a common ancestry, they have been maintained separately and so entries appear in one that don't appear in the other. The GROS will correct errors reported to them. Few deaths are indexed - hence the SAFHS project to compile a National Burials Index. There does seem to be some duplication of efforts - it is a pity to expend scarce resources re-doing indexing already done. However, this is complicated by commercial considerations, copyright etc. I hope this posting helps to clarify matters.