ScotlandsPeople (New website now live).

[rosie17]

Looking forward to viewing the Kirk Records might find out a few things 
Rosie

[Millmoor]

I would love to see a subscription service for SP but actually wonder if this is an indication that the kirk session records are going to be put on the Scotland's Places site (which I have seen muted before).

William

[smudwhisk]

I may be the last person with Scots ancestors to read the piece I quote below but it seems that the new site (post 12th September) might well include a subs option and 'praise be' the kirk sessions records online for all of us who live outwith Scotland:

Plans for wider online access

We plan to begin making church court records available online in 2017, following the re-launch of the ScotlandsPeople website in 2016. We anticipate that it will take a significant time to upload the full range of kirk session, presbytery, synod and General Assembly records for the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which amount to more than 20,000 volumes. Researchers will have the choice of accessing the records free of charge in various Scottish archives, or using the subscription service.

http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/church-court-records-online

Much that a subscription option would be great depending on the prices, I hope its not going to be a complete change to that and remove PAYGO credits.

[Forfarian]

Much that a subscription option would be great depending on the prices, I hope its not going to be a complete change to that and remove PAYGO credits.

I suspect that the subscription option will apply only to the new material and not to BMDs and census. But I live in hope of being wrong!

[smudwhisk]

Much that a subscription option would be great depending on the prices, I hope its not going to be a complete change to that and remove PAYGO credits.

I suspect that the subscription option will apply only to the new material and not to BMDs and census. But I live in hope of being wrong!

I think you might be correct there unfortunately.   I'm in two minds on a sub for the BMD/Census records for me personally as in some ways it would be useful to play around seeing if I can follow sidelines forward when the names aren't that unusual, but in other ways with only one 4xGGfather born in Scotland and the fact I can only go back a few generations because of the availability of records, it could be a mute point as to whether a subscription would be cost effective for these depending on what the level was set at.  I've already done quite a bit of research on that line anyway.

[dowdstree]

Hi all,

I have just had an email from Scotlands People saying that the proposed shutdown of their online site
from 7th to 12th September has been postponed for the moment.

They will advise new date later.

Dorrie

[Rosinish]

Thanks Dorrie,

I nearly had a fit as I thought it was going to be shutting down altogether when I read your subject heading 

Annie

[ev]

Last month we contacted you to let you know that our website would be unavailable from Wednesday 7 September 2016 until Monday 12 September 2016. We are writing to let you know that this site downtime has now been postponed to a future date. We will confirm the new dates as soon as possible

ev

[Gadget]

Thanks, ev.

I was hoping that they'd start putting up the new documents soon but, thereyago!