Genealogy Chat

Hi folks, I have just found out some of my family are from Irland and some from Scotland, what I now need is help to find sites that are easy to use and give good info, i.e. census sites, any one out there who can help me please. Bev

Speedy the best site for Scotland is Scotlands people. Cost £6 for 30 credits. You can download the certificate. Scottish certs have far more details on them than English. e.g. Death cert usual details plus names of parents and maiden name of mother. Birth certs names of both parents and maiden name of mother Marriage certs names, addresses of couple plus names of both sets of parents and the maiden names of the mothers and there date of marriage. Wish the English certs were the same. Good luck Pat

You need to go back a little bit before Scotlandspeople is useful. There is a cut off rule whereby births have to be a 100 years ago, marriages 75 years ago and deaths 50 years ago. Later than that you have to go to the GRO Their statutory records date from 1855 - 1954 with births, deaths and marriages. The old parish records 'OPR's are up to 1854 - which is only for births/christenings and marriages. I would suggest looking at the LDS IGI for OPR's on www*scotsorigins*com first to narrow down the search on scotlandspeople. Scotlandspeople has statutory BDM's, OPR's, Census, Documents 'Wills' and is great value. You should find it relatively easy to trace your scottish rellies but with your Irish ones are another matter entirely.

Hey Speedy I knew you couldn't get away from us Scots lol

Thanx folks, have tried the one and got 30 credits, just waiting for birth cert for one who was born in England, but parents came from Scotland, before using my credits up. Yes Val, I always knew that I had either Welsh, Irish or Scotish blood in me, but didn't think it was all of them. Bev

Speedy, I'm going to the GRO in Edinburgh next Tuesday, might be able to search for one or two people. I would be able to access virually all bmd's right upto 2004.

Bev, I have nudged the Irish tips thread again for you. :-) Joy

As you said you'd purchased credits for scotlandspeople and are now waiting for an english certificate to come I don't know if you realise that when you buy credits you have a week (I think) to use them (never lasted that long with me). After a week your access period expires although the credits are carried forward to the next time you buy credits.

Bev you only get a week to use them but if you know they where born in SCOTLAND you can look it up if you know where they came from. You see I am shouting it because I told you we are every where lol

Hi Speedy, If you are going to do quite a bit of research in Scotland, perhaps you would be interested in joining the Scottish family tree researchers, you can then enter any data and also look at data of othere people, you may be lucky and find someone else also researching the same tree as yourself, if you are interested the site is (remove brackets) http://groups(.)yahoo(.)com/group/scottishfamilytreeresearchers This is a very good site for research where you can ask for help, and publish information fom your Scottish BMDs nd see others, there are a number of helpful links & records to access Members also help others with their research, their names are given in the links. It is worth joining (free) if you are contemplating a deal of Scottish research

Maud there is no site name on speedy's thread any chance I could get copy of site name as well

Val Have sent you a message, Maud

Maud / web address? - I got american groups!!!

what is the website Maud is referring to??? As it hasn't shown the full address