OPR Images now on SP

[trish251]

Images for OPR births/marriages are now on ScotlandsPeople. These are parish register images, so they often show no more information than is on the index, but sometimes have some extra data.

The best OPR marriage I have found in Scotland gives
Name and parish of bride and groom, name of brides father, occupation of groom and bride's father. Name of 2 witnesses.

The worst - simply gives date and name of bride and groom.

Birth images sometimes give the occupation of the father, but little other extra information that I have found.

Trish

[yn9man]

I was on ScotlandsPeople earlier today and it was still down. Thanks for letting us know it is back up and running smoothly.

yn9man

[Gadget]

Ooooooooooh Trish. That is good news. I'll be using up all my units 

Thanks for the news.  I hadn't been in tonight.

Gadget

PS - much cheaper than the £10 each that I've paid before now 

[trish251]

I'll be getting lazier still - online instead of going to the LDS to spend hours tracking through parish registers

But I still need to go there to check the burials!


Trish

[Gadget]

You're lucky - my nearest LDS is in Inverness and it's open for 2 hours a week. The last time I tried to get anything, it took 3 months to get in and then it had to go back the next week. This will be marvellous 

Gadget

[tidybooks]

Hold on , there is something wrong. i went to search for my archibald buchanan who married Isabel Thomson on 09 Nov 1755, specified that it had to be in East Lothian. It has come back with 1 in Stirling and 2 in Glasgow and none in East Lothian.

I think the Gremlins are still here.

Tom

[tidybooks]

I then did same search specifying County/Cit yas Shipping and it still brought the same 3 results. I am away to email before I lose credits.

Tom

[hume]

Thought I was onto a winner with them...guess what? No extra information.  Should have prepared myself for that. Nice to have them there though.

[bonjedward]

There's probably been such a pent-up demand for the OPR images, that it's overloaded their servers - when you try to log on, there's now (for the last half-hour) a page saying:

SITE CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
The site is currently unavailable or has encountered a problem that prevents it responding to your request. Please continue to the home page. You may be asked to login before resuming your searching. Please feel free to inform us of the circumstances in which you encountered this problem by filling this form.