Scotland's People, Ancestry, FamilySearch etc: which to use?

[Forfarian]

Has this already been said I've not read back thru all replies but since your original posting
Ancestry does include some of the original documents..from Scotland

They do, but mostly in breach of copyright, and far from all surviving records.

[Gadget]

The initial thread/post was 28 February 2015 & I've since found some original SP Baptism records on FindMyPast which are in their records as opposed to being uploaded to others' Family Trees.

Annie

Could it have been when FindMyPast and SP were owned by the same company or something similar?

[Rosinish]

The initial thread/post was 28 February 2015 & I've since found some original SP Baptism records on FindMyPast which are in their records as opposed to being uploaded to others' Family Trees.

Could it have been when FindMyPast and SP were owned by the same company or something similar?

Hi Gadget...

I'm unsure of that but the ones I came across were catholic baptisms specifically in South Uist, Inverness-shire.

Annie

Add...Having checked, the records I referred to were in the parish/area of Bornish, South Uist, Inverness-shire

[Gadget]

I've just been checking which Scottish records FindMyPast have, Annie

They seem to have  the RC records from all 8 of the Diocese

Scotland Roman Catholic parish baptisms
Scotland Roman Catholic parish marriages
Scotland Roman Catholic parish congregational records
Scotland Roman Catholic parish burials
Scotland Roman Catholic parish list

and a considerable number of other Scottish records.

Gadget


It's worth checking their 'All records' page and entering 'Scotland' in the search box for the full listing

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/historical-records?region=world&page=1&order_direction=desc&order_by=relevance

[Forfarian]

FindMyPast has better coverage of the Scottish Roman Catholic records than Scotland's People.

FindMyPast's parent company never actually owned SP - Brightsolid https://www.dcthomson.co.uk/companies/brightsolid-2/ was contracted for a few years to operate the SP web page on behalf of the National Records of Scotland/Registrar General for Scotland.

IIRC that contract ended before SP got access to the RC registers.

(I only just realised that FindMyPast now includes GenesReunited.)

[Gadget]

Brightsolid - that was the one that I was thinking of! 

History of FindMyPast

Our past

The Findmypast story began in 1965 as what was then known as Title Research. Since there were no online records, employees spent many hours poring over microfiche machines until the first website was launched in 2003 as 1837online.com.

Rebranded in 2006, and acquired by DC Thomson in 2007, Findmypast has since expanded to cover the UK, Ireland, Australia and North America.

In 2011 Findmypast embarked on a 10-year project to digitise 40 million pages from The British Library's collection of historical newspapers, this partnership was renewed in 2021 with a broader scope.

Findmypast has won several major digitisation contracts such as the 1911 Census for England & Wales, British Army Service Records and the 1939 Register. Through partnerships with religious organisations, UK record offices and societies Findmypast hosts record sets including the Catholic Heritage Archive and The Wales Collection.

From January 2022, Findmypast is the exclusive online home of the 1921 Census of England & Wales in association with The National Archives.

I joined when they started as 1837 Online

[Forfarian]

Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about 1837online. I didn't join it as initially they only had information from England and Wales.

[Gadget]

Well, with ancestors from Wales, Scotland, England and a smattering of Irish way back, I am a bit of a mixture and  Ancestry tells me that I've also got Norway, Sweden and Denmark there somewhere.

I was surprised to find that many of my wider kin are now in Canada, USA, South Africa, New Zealand and a few in Australia!

I need many sources. 


Gadget

[Forfarian]

Every single one of the direct ancestors I know about was born and died in Scotland. That's a minimum of 5 generations, and up to 15 generations in one line. No-one at all exotic anywhere among my forebears.