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To the person that said.. why should ' tax payers ' (( really hate when people come out with that tripe )) money should be spent on publishing historical records. I would love to show you my 3 pages of A 3 paper stuck together with about 300 (( so far )) great grandparents in France. I havent even added the next few generations it is going to be enormous. In stark contrast to my dozen or so in the UK. I've never seen such a sh** show, poorly organised, more than likely under funded situation here. It is virtually impossible to do your ancestry here. Where as in France it would appear I'm almost going to be back to Adam and Eve. There is not one blank box in all of my great grandparents back to 1699. I know what they did, what there jobs were, where they lived. Each area in France has an archive website. You literally just go there, type in the year and you can look through the whole book, yep... for freee... online. Why in gods name can you not do this here. You search for info on Ancestry, which you're paying for, it's not there. You then have to go to Scotlands people, pay more money just in the hope that the first one you click on is the right one. My question remains the same, if I go to Edinburgh or somewhere to the archive offices are you actually able to look through the books there? So hard just doing it online I've almost given up on the UK.