John Thanks for your excellent contribution - very interesting and enlightening! Geoff in sweltering Sevilla (Family History was meant to be our winter hobby!) >From: John Dods <johndods2002@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: west-riding@rootsweb.com >To: west-riding@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WRY] Scottish Marriages >Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:15:54 -0700 (PDT) > >No worries Judith. >I find that each country has it's pluses & minuses. >I have reasearch in Yorkshire, Scotland, the US, >Canada, South Africa, Australia & NZ. > >I am thankful that I have a few of my Yorkie ancestors >living in Dade Parishes at ther right time. > >My experence that historical Scottish Statutory >records are far cheaper ( 1 pound verses 7 pounds), >and give a lot more information. For example an >English Death cert tells you very little, at the cost >of 7 pounds, for 1 pound a Scottish cert gives you all >the spouces, the names of the deceased parents >(according to the informat), the informants name & >thier relationship to the deceased of the witness. > >One of the best things I find about Scottish records >is the Scottish custom of women using both her maiden >& married name in BMD's and baptisms. > >The Yorkish brances of my tree, generally go back >further than my Scottish ones, but there are lots of >females with just thier first name, or a question mark >on the maiden name. >Where as the Scottish branches are fuller and end >because the parish registers run out. >England parish records go back much further, but have >less information (Dade excluded), the fact that there >are Bishops Transcripts also means, there is a back >up, the Scottish registers don't have this, so if part >of the register is missing, tough. >Another minus with Scottish Church records, there is >hardly any burial records (the Kirk felt such things >were accociated with popery). > >England is unsual that it's indices are widely >avaliable and right upto date. > >Scotland, some Canadian provences and Aussie state, >which have pay per view access to certs, all have a >limit on access smilar to Scotlands, 100 years for >births, 75 years for marriage and 25 years for deaths. >British Columbia & some Aussie states have 120 years >on births, due to privacy and identify fraud reasons. >NZ in in the process of something similar, which maybe >even more draconian. Our widely avaliable BMD indices >end at 1990, you want anything later you have to go >into the registars office. > >I suspect one England gets it's certs online, you may >find similar restrictions. > >Good luck and Good Hunting with your research. > >cheers >John Dods >Wellington, NZ > > >--- Judith Kettlewell ><judith.kettlewell@btinternet.com> wrote: > > > Hi John > > > > Many thanks for your very detailed explanation of > > how Scottish Records work > > [in your first reply]. You never know, I may need > > them at some time. > > > > This is my first foray into Scotland and it seems it > > is not as easy as > > researching in England. More expensive too! > > > > I may take a trip up to Edinburgh in August when the > > Festival is on and kill > > two birds with one stone. > > > > Thank you for your help. > > > > Judith > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Dods" <johndods2002@yahoo.com> > > To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 11:18 PM > > Subject: Re: [WRY] Scottish Marriages > > > > > > > Sorry Judith, I've just realised I missed read > > your > > > 20th century dates as 19th century. oops. > > > There are printed indexes of scottish marriages at > > the > > > Family History center in London (which I am sure > > go up > > > to this period). > > > There is certainly an index at New Register House, > > in > > > Edinburgh and probably also accessable at the > > Mitchel > > > Library in Glasgow. > > > No online index exists for these date. > > > You will need someone in London or Edinburgh (or > > > Glasgow) to do a look up. > > > cheers > > > John Dods > > > Wellington, NZ > > > > > > > > >Proud to be a transcriber for the freeCEN Project >and volunteer for Random Acts of Geneological Kindness >Ask me how you can contribute to either of these worthy projects or for >other ways of helping our hobby. >Researching >BATTERS in all Yorkshire >BENNIE in Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire & WLN >BENNING in Lanarkshire & Montreal >COOPER in Pickering,Yorkshire >DODS in East Lothian, Berwickshire, British Columbia, Montreal, >Manchester, South Africa, Hong Kong, India >DOUGLAS in Innerwick,ELN & Lanarkshire >EASTWOOD in Holmfirth,WRY >FENTON in Edinburgh >FISHER in Leconfield & Pocklington, East YKS >HAYTON in EastYorkshire >HEWAT in East Lothian >HESSELGRAVE in West Yorkshire >LAMONT in Lanarkshire >MCLEAN in Straclur,Argyll >PAVER in Sherburn in Elmet, Yks >RANKINE in Dunbartonshire, Perthshire >SHIRREFF in East Lothian >SUFFILL/SUFFIELD in West & North Yorkshire >TROTTER, Islay,ARL,Lanarkshire, West Lothian >WALTON, Bradford & Denby, Yorkshire >WILLIAMSON in Edinburgh & North Berwick > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Get your own web address. >Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! 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