I think there is some misunderstanding about what Scotlands People is. It isn’t like Ancestry. http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/visit-us/scotlandspeople-centre The ScotlandsPeople Centre is the official government resource for family history research. We provide access to the Scottish birth, death, marriage and census records, Catholic parish registers, Coats of Arms, valuation rolls, wills and testaments. We are located in central Edinburgh with search rooms in historic General Register House and New Register House. Sue Visser From: M. Diane Rogers Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 2:39 PM To: Sue Visser ; sct-islay@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] a possible reason why the BMD databases are no longer available I doubt that these transcriptions/indexes were done with the use of the Scotland's People website. Likely from microfilms. We'd need to investigate how these were done and see if there were any agreements or any impediments to sharing. However now that ScotlandsPeople has been contacted... These 'rules' have usually nothing to do with privacy. Rather with protecting assets. If you do use Scotland's People you must comply with the company's terms and conditions. Fair enough. However, aren't some or many of these records indexed and available free at FamilySearch? Can some of us compare those transcriptions with what some have saved from the website? Diane M. Diane Rogers British Columbia, Canada --------------------------------------------------------------------------------