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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: hurworth on Monday 24 March 25 23:56 GMT (UK)
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I was pleased to see several new record sets at Ancestry, including Select Counties, Scotland, Church of Scotland, Burials, 1655-1854; Select Counties, Scotland, Church of Scotland, Baptisms, 1615-1854
and Select Counties, Scotland, Church of Scotland, Marriages, 1615-1854
However, even though my subscription includes UK records I'm not able to access them.
Is anyone else having this problem?
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I'm surprised to see from your remarks that Ancestry has some Scottish Records.
The Scottish government has its own website. Records are free to search but credits hve to be bought if one wants to download a copy of a document.
I find that the downloaded copy images are far cheaper than copies bought from other sources.
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
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Listoif payments
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/help-and-support/our-charges
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I have the same problem. When I click on View Record, I'm offered an upgrade to a Monthly subscription to Key Australia and Scottish records for a monthly membership of $A21.99:
"You will be billed in one payment of $21.99 for a 1-month subscription to Key Australia and UK Records, and you will be issued a prorated refund for the time remaining on your current subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew at list price after the introductory one-month offer unless you are notified otherwise."
As I have a yearly sub to Australian and UK records, just renewed last month, this makes little sense.
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Hi Jang,
My sub is from the Australian site - UK Heritage Plus and I'm also being offered an upgrade for $21.99 a month - that's the UK Heritage (Minus LOL) sub.
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I use ScotlandsPeople all the time Rena.
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I can access them ok.
My membership is called “Worldwide” defined as “ Access all U.S. and international records on Ancestry including birth, marriage, death, and census records. “. (I am in NZ)
But those Select counties data sets are only an index. You would still have to go to Scotlands people to get the image. Might as well just go there in the first place.
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I'm glad it's working for you. Seems a sub that includes UK isn't accessing them at the moment although it should.
I know they're at ScotlandsPeople. I just checked to see how many 'Saved Images" I have there and there's over 50 pages (so more than 500 records)
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Looking at the dates, wasn't/isn't there a series on the old Family Search that have the Scottish indexes covering those dates many years ago?
Stick to SP and get them up to 2025
Gadget
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This a different record set from Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 that has been available on Ancestry for some time. The new set includes some family records that aren't included in those, but are on ScotlandsPeople.
I already have these records, but would also like to be able to link the records on Ancestry to various trees of mine.
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With the SP records, it's possible to put up the images in Gallery and link to them in the individual record.
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As mckha489 says the collection descriptions say they are just an index, appreciate should be able to access with UK sub.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/catalog/?title=Select%20Counties,%20Scotland&limitToCountry=1
Original data: Old Parish Registers. Scotland: Church of Scotland.
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Thank you for your replies everyone.
I'm a regular user of ScotlandsPeople - wish they did some bulk discount, or offered 5 free credits for every 50 you buy or something, or even a sub instead of pay as you go! I have more than 500 records in my saved searches, and at at least 6 credits each that's around ...... mumble mumble....a lot. The earliest being a will from the 1590s that's almost unreadable. I also use our local FamilySearch affiliate library to browse records. I trawled through a couple of decades of 17th century Edinburgh baptisms (it's about 100 images each year) as there was no way I could afford to buy that many records and I was mostly looking for sponsors to help work out kith and kin. So I'm very familiar with ScotlandsPeople.
My question in my first post was whether accessing these three particular record sets via Ancestry is working for others.
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With the SP records, it's possible to put up the images in Gallery and link to them in the individual record.
Yes. But if I can link the new record set to my tree it will help them to come up as hints for others. The actual images are already there on Ancestry showing the baptism and the father was called James, and a death notice from a newspaper that states the father was James, but quite a few people who decided to link these just added them and don't seem to have looked at them properly.
If they go to link this index Ancestry will point out that they're linking a record for a James to someone in their tree called Henry and hopefully they'll think about this.