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Offline lmnapl

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Re: Familyseach or LDS churches
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 17 July 05 03:39 BST (UK) »
The IGI fiches, available at all LDS Family History Centers do include nearly all of the entries in the Scottish OPRs, apart from a few of the entries in the parishes in the deep SW of Scotland.
ibi

Alas, even the IGI fiches are not perfect. If your local FHC has the Scottish Churches Cd - help me here, ibi  ;), the name of the Cd has escaped me - you may find additional records. Viewing the films is time consuming, but worth it.

Laura

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Re: Familyseach or LDS churches
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 17 July 05 11:01 BST (UK) »
The IGI fiches, available at all LDS Family History Centers do include nearly all of the entries in the Scottish OPRs, apart from a few of the entries in the parishes in the deep SW of Scotland.
ibi

Alas, even the IGI fiches are not perfect. If your local FHC has the Scottish Churches Cd - help me here, ibi  ;), the name of the Cd has escaped me - you may find additional records. Viewing the films is time consuming, but worth it.

Laura

Laura

It's exactly as you wrote, - the Scottish Churches Disk, - but it's only available at LDS FHCs and New Register House in Edinburgh.......... I seem to recall that the Mitchell Library in Glasgow might have a copy, - someone will need to check.

While we're on the subject, be aware that there have been two separate, complete filmings of the OPRs.  You will need to check through a FHC, or maybe also in the LDS/GSU catalogue, which film is supplied when ordered.  They are not 100% identical.

Just recently I came across a situation where too tight a frame on a page in one of these two filmings led to the omission of an entry added down the extreme right hand margin of the OPR in question, but it was there on the other.

ibi

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Too tight a frame
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 17 July 05 19:02 BST (UK) »
This has indeed been the curse of Scottish Family History studies.  The 1881 census has been ruined - and not so far reinstated - by a tight-fisted eejit who insisted on ratcheting back half a frame to save on film, and in so doing kept us from what should have been the complete 1881 census experience.

This eejit is still alive and lurking round Scottish Family History sites.

Rosemary

Tyson - Argyll and Stirlingshire
Meehan/Meechan - Glasgow and Stirlingshire
Christy/Christie - Linlithgow,Bo'ness, Dunbs & Stirlingshire
O'Brien  - Linlithgow
Dougherty/Doherty - Dunbartonshire & Stirlingshire