Hurray! Yes, a visit to New Register House is wonderful. You have your own space, if you look "lost" staff will soon be OFFERING to help; you can make wonderful progress in a couple of days...even just one if you don't stray from the "narrow path". Oh yes: a lesson to many establishments!!! And the initial leads were found on-line...when the site was first launched. Glad to know NRH is still operating the same way. Jacqui - still searching for those Scottish roots (well, the family always claimed to be Scottish "originally"...!) ----- Original Message ----- From: R L Young To: warwick@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [WAR] Colindale Library closure So I suppose that allows me to say what I think <grin>. When you cut out all the political rubbish about nationality (whatever that is all about), one of the few things going for "Scotland" (apart from it being a very nice place mostly) is its system of registration and access to records and certificates. Whilst "Scotland People" is some positive progress, a visit to new Register House and access to everything is exactly how it should be. Everyone could learn a lesson from this system, with the added bonus of the parents date and place of marriage on birth certificates. What a boon this is when tracing ancestors from Ireland who moved to Scotland when there are no equivalent Irish records. How sad the English system is, even worse the Irish (except for access to the 1911 census, but at least they are starting to do something about it.) If you go to New Register House there is NO cut off date, only on Scotland People, and at C£18 a day it is priceless, I could live in it permanently, but I need to work too..... Just how it should be.