Lin Glad to see that I am not the only one who consider this rip off. As you said a credit is used to do a search and another five is used to view the results. If there were lots of results involving more than one page you have to use credits for each page you view. One also to be careful as when you view the results it leads to a page with a tick on inviting you to order the certificate costing 12gbp. I did order 2 marriage certificates without using credits to view. The least they could do is if you use credits to view then order the certificates they could have offered to refund the view credits. No such offer was indicated. Like I said I did not view but then knew they were the right people and as things turned out they were. I subscribed to the Glasgow mailing list (like Yorksgen) and posted what I was looking for. I got a shock when Nivard answered! Didn't know she was on that list and told her she was like a scarlet pimpernel being here, there and every where! Anyway I did get a reply from a very helpful lady and she went to the Glasgow archives looked up some details which she posted to me (I refunded her costs). She also did other things which I am not going to mention here but what she did helped me find what I was looking for. It was all in connection with the SCOULAR family. One can look for one of the Scottish mailing list and subscribe to that. I have got everything I wanted for this family. Well not quite. I would have liked details of the NELLIE family but a search on Scottish People revealed over 50 results which, as I said before, meant a number of credits per page view. However this family is not important so I declined to pay all these credits. Victor On 28/08/2012 10:05 PM, Lin wrote: > This is partly Yorkshire related as a branch of mine departed to north > of the border (how dare they! vbg). > > Does anyone know of a way of searching effectively Scotlandspeople as it > seems such a rip off to do a search, pay to view each page of results > and then pay to view the image without even knowing I've got the right > people as there doesn't seem to be a way of inputting place of birth > into the search engine and as to the 1911 census.........! > > Lin

Hi Victor I am sure it was just a slip but this Scarlet Pimpernel is of the same gender as the original (well the character at least :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > I subscribed to the Glasgow mailing list (like Yorksgen) and posted what > I was looking for. I got a shock when Nivard answered! Didn't know she > was on that list and told her she was like a scarlet pimpernel being > here, there and every where!