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Re: Clarification of Birth Details and WW1 Grave
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 26 November 14 07:15 GMT (UK) »
Findmy past does not have such death certificates, only the GRO index to them. They have to be obtained from the English GRO. Certificates can be viewed on Scotlandspeople but that's because it's an official GROS site.

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Re: Clarification of Birth Details and WW1 Grave
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 26 November 14 17:09 GMT (UK) »
Hi Imber, Archie and Dod.

 Imber:- I did not know that was why the actual record images are not available on FindMyPast, and I suppose Ancestry too. It is great to be able to access the actual record on SP but I wish this service did a subscription as one can make expensive mistakes.

Dod:- Thanks for that link which took me straight to the section. I entered a combination of James Walton/Marsden/Mundell and got a lot of hits, so it looks as though I will have to renew my subscription to explore these.  Also, I looked up Ancestry, and it looks as though I should subscribe again there too.

Archie:- The name of another of my uncles is on the Plymouth Memorial too.  He went down on HMS Glorious and the records of that incident were sealed.  However, I got a lot of information from the Imperial War Museum and also by just putting 'HMS Glorious' into my browser I accessed some other references.

Thanks for all your help, folks.  Mundell

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Re: Clarification of Birth Details and WW1 Grave
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 26 November 14 21:26 GMT (UK) »
It is great to be able to access the actual record on SP but I wish this service did a subscription

Don't we all! Unfortunately the charges are set by the Scottish Government, so getting it changed would be a long process. Just be glad it's so much cheaper than getting the corresponding detail from most parts of the world.
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Re: Clarification of Birth Details and WW1 Grave
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 27 November 14 09:48 GMT (UK) »
Hi Forfarian,

Too right.  I had to get info. from the USA and many of  the States are either not digitized or way behind in the process.  Buying the documents I wanted was very expensive.

At least being able to see and download the images is a thrill. 

I recently completed another survey on SP and it looks as though a family tree maker might be on the cards.

If as many of us as possible complete the SP surveys and suggest a subscription/credit system, we might eventually get there.   Mundell



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Re: Clarification of Birth Details and WW1 Grave
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 27 November 14 10:08 GMT (UK) »
I recently completed another survey on SP and it looks as though a family tree maker might be on the cards.
If as many of us as possible complete the SP surveys and suggest a subscription/credit system, we might eventually get there.   

Yes. But I don't see the point in SP offering a tree building facility - there are hundreds of existing sites and programs to do that already, so why should SP devote resources to adding another one?

I'd far rather SP concentrated on doing the things only they can do, like adding mothers' maiden surnames to earlier birth and death indexes, ironing out some of quirks of the search (though to be fair most of the quirks are in the in-house search system not the online one), adding place of birth to the census indexes and so on.

If we all replied to the survey saying 'yes' to just the few options we really, really want, they would get a very clear indication what to concentrate on. If we all say 'yes' to all or most of the options in their survey, they aren't going to get a clear idea of what their customers would prefer.

Sorry, I've got a bit off-topic!
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Re: Clarification of Birth Details and WW1 Grave
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 27 November 14 12:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi Forfarian and Mundell,

             you are correct saying that SP should remain the way it but as you said iron out bits here and there, SP has to be the cheapest in the world not only that it has a great system whereby any documents have the parents names and trades on them, I will never fault it.

I joined Ancestry UK and find that what I pay for is very good plus the Tree Maker as well, it helps join the world together and finding relations here and there.

Cheers.

Archie.


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Re: Clarification of Birth Details and WW1 Grave
« Reply #24 on: Thursday 27 November 14 19:32 GMT (UK) »
Hi Forfarian and Archie.

I certainly don't disagree with your comments.  These are the tools at out disposal - none are perfect,  but the combination of resources pretty will get us there.  Rootschat has been a good assist.

I too have used the tree maker on Ancestry but find the Scottish records available more difficult to access and transferring information from SP a bit tortuous.  Perhaps the limitation is mine!

Meanwhile, I'm still searching for James, so back to the grindstone.

Good luck with your own endeavours.  Mundell