Lesley, I have the 1881 census on CD from LDS. I find it an excellent searching aid as it includes an index for all of England, Wales, Scotland, and I believe part of Ireland (not sure about that). I find it a great help in getting ideas where to look for the females of a family line. It has the ability to search on a CHRISTIAN name, date and place of birth. When you do this, it gives you a list of all of that name and age born in that county (as reported at census time) with their entire families (husband, children, etc.) If there are not too many, you can then start looking at marriage films to see if it is the right female. You have to estimate the year of marriage based on the parents ages, or the ages of their children. LDS has films of indexes of Scottish marriages, by year, that you can peruse to find the marriage you want to check. My LDS has these in stock to be examined at any time. You then order the film for the parish marriages of interest and find who the parents are. When you hit the right one, you also have the parents of her husband. A note on examining films when you get them. They will include more parishes than the one you have requested, sometimes several. Take the time to check them all (they have an index at the beginning to see if the surname you are searching is included). I had deaths for Kilmarnock for 1864 hoping to find my GGGgrandmothers death registration. Wrong one, but I did find quite by chance the death registration on my grandfathers brother. You never know what you will find. George M. McCaig, Dwight, Ontario, Canada.