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Family History Beginners Board / Born abroad - where is birth certificate?
« on: Tuesday 26 January 16 18:24 GMT (UK)  »
If Scottish people were living abroad (in Switzerland) and had a child, where would that child's birth be registered in the UK system? Edinburgh? London?

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Scotland / Re: indexing of Scottish records
« on: Sunday 21 June 15 23:42 BST (UK)  »
Might indeed be true, Nell. But is LDS and SP enough? Can we assume Ancestry uses LDS - it seems to? What does FindMyPast use (I've never used that one).

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Scotland / Re: indexing of Scottish records
« on: Sunday 21 June 15 23:07 BST (UK)  »
My question is not who owns the original records. That's SP (or, more precisely, the NRS and licensed to SP). It is about the indexed databases created from the records. Consider this -
David Campbell Lawson
Scotland, Births and Baptisms
Name:   David Campbell Lawson
Gender:   Male
Christening Place:   Peebles, Peebles, Scotland
Birth Date:   02 Feb 1891
Birthplace:   Peebles, Peebles, Scotland
Father's Name:   John Lawson
Mother's Name:   Elizabeth Campbell Lawson
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01955-4 , System Origin: Scotland-EASy , GS Film number: 255160 , Reference ID: v 768 p 6

this is an LDS index. As Nell pointed out, it clearly different from SP which does not include parents. So in this case, LDS is better (and free:)

So my question remains: how many indexes were created (there are clearly 2 or more), when, and who uses them. Because I'd rather use (or at least start with) the most suitable database., and I'd rather not waste my time with databases which are the same underneath, or with searches that are doomed because there are no records for that year. 

Monica noted that LDS stopped after 1880.  My impression is that it was later, but it might be on a per-parish or per-record-type basis. Somebody must know the exact answer.

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Scotland / Re: indexing of Scottish records
« on: Sunday 21 June 15 22:24 BST (UK)  »
Thanks you Monica.
However, it doesn't answer the question - how can Scotlandspeople not have indexed parents for births certificates, where LDS has. LDS must have done their own indexing, independent of SP (or National Archives). For example: "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," Database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQK4-RZR : accessed 21 June 2015), Walter Read, 04 May 1872; citing DELTING,SHETLAND,SCOTLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 6,035,516.
How and when did this FHL film get created? And who uses it its records (other than LDS).

A related question is why a person can appear in some databases and not others (including SPs). There must have been different indexings, and I'd like to know what they were.


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Scotland / indexing of Scottish records
« on: Sunday 21 June 15 21:05 BST (UK)  »
I waste a lot of time searching multiple sites. Much of it is probably pointless, since the underlying databases are the same.
Can anyone point me at a history of indexing of Scottish records - what was scanned, how many times, and where the results went. For example, Scotlandspeople OPRs are the same as LDS (other than later corrections of typos etc). But not SRs.  And LDS has (very usefully) indexed parents of SR births, where Scotlandspeople does not, so that must have been a different indexing operation.
LDS results went, I assume to Ancestry. SP's is licensed to FindMyPast.
Scotlandspeople seems reasonably up-to-date. LDS will sometimes find more, but seems to have faded out in the 1960s?

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Family History Beginners Board / Lists of Scottish baptisms
« on: Thursday 12 February 15 16:51 GMT (UK)  »
I have a doc from Scotlandspeople, via an OPR, which is a list of all the baptisms of a family:
John Fame of Kype and his children
John was baptised Jan 9 1717
Margret               Apr 23 1732
etc.
8 children, one father (no mother listed), covering 21 years.
What is this doc? It not a simple baptism record (of one person). It is not the baptism of a whole family. What family event triggered its creation?
Alan

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