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(*Completed with thanks*)BMDs
« on: Tuesday 06 June 17 16:31 BST (UK) »
Can anyone tell me please how I can I find a listing for Scottish birth, marriage and death records.

Thank you

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Re: BMDs
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 06 June 17 16:45 BST (UK) »
Scotland's people would be the first suggestion.

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

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Re: BMDs
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 06 June 17 17:04 BST (UK) »
Census information Crown copyright , All Census information from transcriptions - check original records , Familysearch/IGI is a finding tool only - check original records

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 06 June 17 22:01 BST (UK) »
Familysearch
https://familysearch.org/search/
have a lot of Scottish records transcribed.
But as Pauline and ev have said, the only place to see the actual images is on scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
Familysearch is a free site, (as is scotlandspeople to just search), and I find it easier to search than scotlandspeople. You could try both!  :)
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Re: BMDs
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 07 June 17 09:20 BST (UK) »
Can anyone tell me please how I can I find a listing for Scottish birth, marriage and death records.
This might help

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=24468.0
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: BMDs
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 07 June 17 09:30 BST (UK) »
Thanks for all your help.  I haven't looked at the links as yet, I am looking for bmds from the 1950s though.
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Re: BMDs
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 07 June 17 09:43 BST (UK) »
I have now found what I was looking for, easier than I thought it was going to be.  Thank you again

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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 07 June 17 09:43 BST (UK) »
I am looking for bmds from the 1950s though.
Ah. You didn't say that to start with. That makes a difference.

You can search the online indexes free at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. However unless you are looking for a very unusual name you may struggle to pinpoint the ones you are interested in.

You can view online birth certificates more than 100 years old, marriage certificates over 75 years old, and death certificates over 50 years old. So you can see deaths in the 1950s but not marriages or births.

If you want to see certificates after the cut-off dates, you can do so by going in person to a Scotland's People Centre. The main one is in Edinburgh but there are other places, for example the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, where you can also see this information. You pay £15 for a day's research, and you can find a lot of certificates in a day. You have to transcribe them; you are not allowed to save to a memory device or print out certificates after the cut-offs.

If you can't get to a SP Centre, you would need to find someone to go there on your behalf. Someone who goes regularly might volunteer if you don't have too many certificates to find, but if you have a lot, you could think about hiring a professional searcher to find and transcribe them.
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Re: BMDs
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 07 June 17 09:45 BST (UK) »
I have now found what I was looking for, easier than I thought it was going to be.  Thank you again
Oh, good. Looks like your post crossed with mine!
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