Margaret Nixon wrote: > Having searched the Latter Day Saints (LDS) Scottish Births & Marriage > records on Computer Index & IGI for my SKENE family from Kirkcudbright. > I know there are gaps in the Parish records, I knew of 2 children born > in the same parish around the same year, only 1 appeared in the LDS > records and the same thing years later. The OPR Index has many gaps, especially for the southern parts of Scotland it seems. > I decided to order in the 'Old > Parish Records'(OPR) on Film from my local LDS history centre. > What I found were the births listed on the OPR, and not on computer > Index & IGI. The conclusion I came too, after doing some extra double > checking was, a Natural or illegitimate childs Birth & Baptism was > registered/recorded in the Parish, but!!! not recorded by LDS. Nice theory. BUT! the IGI has thousands of illicit. births shown. The usual clue, is that MOTHER name alone is given, no father. Example in Kirkcudbright IGI: SLOAN Isabella born 1 January 1863, Father/Mother named as JANET SLOAN. Cheers......... ALISTAIR (Alec) CAMERON