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Scots Origins

An On-Line Database

Scots Origins is an online pay-per-view database of indexes from the genealogical records of the GRO(S). It costs £6 (sterling) for 30 page credits. Each page consists of a maximum of 15 search results. Further credits can be bought in 30 page increments for a further £6 charge each time. A link has been provided to online rates of exchange, although these are provided as a guide only and charges will be made at the exchange rate current at the time of the actual payment processing. The Scots Origins database contains fully searchable indexes of the GRO(S) index to births/baptisms and banns/marriages from the Old Parish Registers dating from 1553 to 1854, plus the indexes to births, deaths and marriages from 1855 to 1897. One additional year will be added per annum (1898,1899 etc.) to protect the privacy of living persons. An index to census records for 1891 will be provided in the near future; 1881 census data will provided later this year.

Searching is possible on the following fields:

• Surname
• Event type (birth/christening, marriage, death)
• Sex
• Forename (or first initial)
• Year of registration (or range of years)
• Age (or age range) - deaths only
• Registration District (Statutory Index)
• County (Old Parish Register)

Searching is also possible on other names which are mentioned within a particular record. This includes spouse's name, father's name, mother's name and mother's maiden surname, depending on the entry.

Extract Ordering - An extract is a transcription of all the information held as an entry in the original records held by GRO(S). Entries themselves often contain additional information that is not held within the indexes and can be of historical interest. Extracts of the original entries in the GRO(S) records can be ordered directly from the database. Extract orders are processed by GRO(S) and sent via ordinary mail as paper documents. For details of what extracts are and what they look like click here. The cost of each extract is £10.

Extracts of entries not accessible via the online database (that is those which are less than one hundred years old) can be ordered directly from the GRO(S) website by printing off a form and either faxing or mailing it.

For further details about the GRO(S), visit their website at http://www.open.gov.uk/gros/groshome.htm.

From: sharonkrk@aol.com (SharonKrk)
Newsgroups: scot.general
Subject: Scottish Genealogy Database
Date: 11 Apr 1998
Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com

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