Hi Lynn, Here is a brief response to your query. Others may wish to expand. I share your concern about Scotlandspeople in that one can easily waste money finding the wrong people. If you are using their service for finding death registrations, it is better to go for married women first. They are indexed under both their maiden and married names, so the probablility of a wrong hit is very low. Once you have found the wife, you should get data which will give clues to narrow down the search for the husband. Not available online, but MIs, (monumental inscriptions), are often very informative. If you join the D&GFHS: http://www.dgfhs.org.uk/ one of the member services is a lookup of your family name in their MI record collection. The D&GFHS also has lots of booklets of MIs for sale. Some mailing list subscribers have copies of MIs for selected kirkyards, so you can get lucky with a lookup request. One needs to be aware that people were not always buried in the same parish in which they lived. Also, one can find mention of a family member on a family tombstone, even though that person was not buried there. The census is taken every 10 years. The 1841 was the first one where names were recorded. Because of the 100 year privacy rule, 1901 is the latest available. Scotlandspeople is a good way to access the 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 census, but not so for the 1881. The 1881 data is only the same transcribed data which you can get from the LDS on CD or fiche. The others give you scanned images from the actual census books. You are probably already aware that the 1841 census for all Wigtownshire parishes are available at: http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl and the 1851 at: http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/HistoricalIndexes/census.aspx#search Both are transcribed data. The former has been more thoroughly checked prior to uploading. If you are looking for OPR records, i.e., the pre 1855 baptism and marriage registers of the Church of Scotland, they are available from Scotlandspeople, but you can get the same records much cheaper though the LDS. For Wigtownshire, you can also get lookups from these records. There's more about that on the Wigtownshire Pages, but there you will find I am one of the volunteers who do such lookups. A couple of things you need to keep in mind with OPRs is that they are far from a complete record of all baptisms and marriages, and that if there is no IGI record of a sought event, it is very unlikely, (not impossible), that there will be a record in the OPRs. Regards, Bruce __________________ Hello again--I want to repeat how much I appreciate this site and the people I've already heard from. If I know that people were born in Glasserton in the 1840s and probably died in the 1900s and are in the 1851 census, what are some of the other resources on line that I might search to look for deaths? Is there an 1861 census? 1871 etc? Is the scotlandspeople web site the best resource? I find it somewhat difficult to use, as one must pay before knowing if the information really pertains to the family one is searching, especially with a common name like Scott! I'm still looking forward to hearing from people who may know more about the ownership of South Drumoddie and/or what life was like there. I have seen that the 4 Drumoddie farms can be found on the UK ordnance mapping. Thanks again, Lynn in Fla.