Author Topic: Scottish Marriages Certificates (Read 2326 times)

yn9man · « **on:** Friday 21 July 06 09:20 BST (UK) »

Can anyone recommend a good (point me in the right direction) web site to begin my quest. I am in the US so somewhat difficult to drop in at a local records office or a parish. Want to learn as much as I can about Scottish Marriage Certificates. Tried "google" and other sites but came up with a rather LARGE

number of hits.

Looking for general information as to when started, where certificates stored /kept, information required, accurateness of data (dependability), etc.

Thanks

yn9man

biscute · « **Reply #1 on:** Friday 21 July 06 09:33 BST (UK) »

hi my name is bisute, i live in western australia, and i have scottish rel, as well, i have joind the ancestry .com.uk but you can also go there and have 14days free trial, i found it very usefull, to me. and once you get into it you just click on to the maps they have like americia, england, wales and scottland. and then you go to 1841 census records, or what record you need to look up there is a lot there, so lets know how you get on. biscute,

Tees · « **Reply #2 on:** Friday 21 July 06 09:42 BST (UK) »

Hi

Go to the website: www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

That is where you could view the actual register pages (recorded entries) covering births, marriages and deaths from 1855 on. They also have old parish records as well.

It depends on what you are looking for.

Hope this information helps you a bit!

Regards

Tees

biscute · « **Reply #3 on:** Friday 21 July 06 09:48 BST (UK) »

thank you also tees, i will do that web site as well thank you very much as all my rel came from england,scotland, and main in u.s.a. thanks again biscute

Tees · « **Reply #4 on:** Friday 21 July 06 09:56 BST (UK) »

Hi Biscute

Please clink on the corrected website address (I edited it recently).

Also this website have Scottish censuses.

It's my pleasure to help you out!

Good luck with your quest for finding your ancestors!

Kind regards

Tees

biscute · « **Reply #5 on:** Friday 21 July 06 09:59 BST (UK) »

hi tees well i tried to get into www.scotlandspeople.com but came up with no page, so what was the right email address. thanks tess biscute sorry i spelt your namr wrong hope you get this one biscute

Tees · « **Reply #6 on:** Friday 21 July 06 10:02 BST (UK) »

Hi again

I had rectified the mistake--hope you manage OK this time in accessing to the website now.

Sorry for the trouble.

Regards

Tees

PS It is www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

mitchell · « **Reply #7 on:** Friday 21 July 06 10:39 BST (UK) »

Hi yn9man

Have a look at Boongie Pam's advice at

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,24468.0.html

on the Scotland board. Also, David's helpful tips on getting the most from

Scotlands People searches at

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,43916.0.html

If you need further help there are a lot of helpful people on the Scotland and Scotland Counties boards...just ask

Good luck

Elaine

yn9man · « **Reply #8 on:** Sunday 23 July 06 19:38 BST (UK) »

Thanks biscute, tees and mitchell for the useful information. I have used www.scotlandspeople.gov website (successfully and unsuccessfully). On some occasions the site just seems goes to go "down". I don't think it is "operator error" on my end but it could be.

Again thanks to all and good luck with your Scottish research.

yn9man

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