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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Topic started by: andy14 on Friday 10 October 08 22:17 BST (UK)
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I've been looking for a wedding of william miller and helen smith probably in inverkeithing FIfe. looking on IGI i get a date of 18/11/1794 but nothing on SP. Is this common? ???
I konw that some IGI enteries aren't correct, so where have they got this
andy
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Hi Andy,
The marriage is there on SP. However, you may not be finding it due to Millar/Miller spellings.
William Millar and Helen Smith, 18/11/1794, Inverkeithing
hume24
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It's on SP in Inverkeithing.
It's under William Millar.
When searching for names like Miller which have alternate spellings use wildcards .... Mill*r
Dave
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As a (slight) side note, the marriage also shows in the other parish of Mid Calder, Midlothian. Either William (also indexed as Millar) or Helen may have came from that area.
hume24 :)
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thanks both I'd tried using soundex to no avail. a useful lesson learnt :-[
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hume24 - we must stop reading the same posts ;D
Dave
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hume24 - we must stop reading the same posts ;D
Dave
;D
We do seem to keep bumping into each other. I think I'll stick to a quieter part around here.
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don't leave me :'( :'( :'(
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Andy.
It might be worth reading the following posts
It might look a bit daunting but it's not really.
Could save you a lot of expense and missed opportunities.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/041v/
http://www.rootschat.com/links/04ht/
Dave
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thanks dave
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On a general note, you won't always find marriages or births on the IGI in the SP records, simply because SP only has the established Church of Scotland records. As well as these, the IGI also has some of the dissenter church records indexed.
Despite this, you will in some cases still find a record of a dissenter marriage in the SP records, because the local Church of Scotland minister may have deemed it his duty to record the marriage anyway, despite not being carried out within or by his church. The records for Perth are excellent in this regard, for example, as each entry states which religious denomination was involved - I've even seen a Roman Catholic baptism recorded in the Perth OPR, which if you know anything about Perth's role in the Reformation, is something of a surprise, to say the least! :)
This Church of Scotland monopoly is due to change soon though on SP, as the Roman Catholic records for Scotland are being digitised and indexed by the GROS, and will be made available online also at the site, along with various death and burial records held by the GROS.
Chris