Thanks Diddy, where did this info come from so I can tick a source.
Beware, Frances, neither the IGI nor the SP index is a 'source'. Both of them are indexes; you can't 'tick a source' if all you have seen is the index entry.
There are two reasons for always looking at the original of anything you find online or in an index.
First, the original source often contains more information than the entry in the index.
Second, if you look at the original yourself, you can be sure that any errors are your own, and not someone else's.
The IGI in particular contains a lot of information from very dubious sources. Test this statement by putting 'Odin' in the first name box, selecting 'Sweden' as the country and searching. Also, if an IGI entry is 'submitted', you have to doubt it unless and until you have seen the original.
Anything in the IGI which contains the word 'of' or the word 'about' can fairly safely be ignored as being either guesswork or wishful thinking.
Scotland's People
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk has digital images of the originals of all the main birth, marriage and death records in Scotland.
