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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland Resources => Topic started by: rubyrose on Saturday 05 July 08 23:03 BST (UK)
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Inverclyde Council has published an online index to BMDs in the Greenock, Gourock and Port of Glasgow area. The Watt Library Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths is compiled from the announcements made in local newspapers from the early nineteenth century to around 1913. The work is still ongoing and when complete will contain over 100,000 names.
I've just had a look at it and it is really informative and could be very useful to anybody with ancestors in this area of Scotland. (Lots of families where the men are seafarers or associated professions.)
The link is here
Go to https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/heritage/local-history
(https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/heritage/local-history) link updated 2018
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This seems to be the new link
http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/education-and-learning/libraries/local-and-family-history/family-history/watt-library-births-marriages-deaths-index/
Please see reply #8.
Mick
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Many thanks for the updated link - which still works 4 years later! the Watt Library certainly has a wonderful family history resource.
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Has anyone else been unable to get on this website? I get the message: "This service is not available"
Nan
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Yes, It appears the website is down ?
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I re-checked the link this morning and it was working then ???
Hopefully it will be back soon.
ev
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This site is absolutely fantastic, the staff who have collated all of this data from the newspaper deserve a medal ;D, and if you call them, they will try their very best to help.
Kathy
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A fantastic resource. Thanks to all the staff for their brilliant work .
As Kathy says they deserve a medal.
Margaret
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The link in the first post in this thread doesn't work. Go to https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/heritage/local-history which takes you to the same indexes.
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Forfarian's link is now also broken. Has anyone recently managed to access this resource?
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Try https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/heritage-services
Wish web sites wouldn't keep changing their links!
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Thanks. That link gets you to the Watt Library section but it says info can be be accessed by visiting them. Can't find anything about the "online index of BMDs". Perhaps they no longer provide that resource online?
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I don't know.
Why not e-mail them and ask them? It would be a pity if the resource were lost.
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I tried a few of the pdfs from here, seem to be OK
https://web.archive.org/web/20171211020316/https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/heritage/family-history/intimations-surname-index
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Or try a google search (I am experimenting here!)
"www.inverclyde.gov.uk" + Intimations + pdf
The files come up in the search results, they can be downloaded, i.e.
Intimations 1851-1864
copies link - https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/assets/attach/5116/intimations-1851-1864.pdf
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Gosh, I've gone and found the long lost Diocese of London Consistory Court Wills index!
Compiled by volunteers at the LMA (now the London Archives) between 2001 and 2007
Amazing what the Wayback Machine can do!
Mind you, I think the entries, or some of them, have been incorporated into their catalogue now.
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Does it work for you, Rakiura John?
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From replies #13 & 14: the full link for the menu of date-index pdf files is:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171211021025/https://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/heritage/family-history/intimations
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Doing the google search for "www.inverclyde.gov.uk" + Intimations + pdf does the trick :)
I'll now download all the Intimations so I have them on my computer for when I need them.
I did email the Watt Institution yesterday - here is their reply:
"Many thanks for your recent enquiry. Our intimations are currently not available online as the PDF format they were developed in no longer meets accessibility standards for public bodies in the UK and they have to be reformatted which is quiet a task given the amount of data we had online.
If you let me know what you are looking for I can forward the relevant documents directly to you.
Kind regards."
Thanks everyone for your responses.
John
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Well, that is an achievement for "accessibilty". They are obliged to take it down so it becomes inaccessible. Who thinks up these standards?