Note the following from the ScotlandsPeople website
We are pleased to announce that new statutory images from the Statutory Register of Births for 1908 and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1958 are now on-line. Statutory Register of Marriages (index and images) for 1933 will follow shortly.
No sign yet, however, of the 1881 scanned images, or the Catholic records, both 'promised' for around now.
And still no sign of the modern marriage index, i.e. the index only from the present closure date for images up to the present day, despite this being originally announced for early 2008. A major problem apparently, has been that the release of the similar birth and death indexes a year ago led to an overload on the system from the large number of extract (certificate) orders, - the delivery period is still 4 weeks or worse. (It can be worth paying the extra £3 to order via email, phone, or fax, since this involves a completely separate system with the delivery time being max 7 to 10 days!)
Referring back to an earlier post re the kirk session records, these are all now digitised, but so far can only be viewed at National Archives of Scotland (they may also, or soon, be available via individual kirks?), - promised at some future date for on-line web availability, but that that depends on a number of factors, not least how to index them, - the original indexing pilot project which included every name mentioned produced the result that the full project, with current resources, would take over 15 years to complete, so a less powerful index is being investigated.
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