ScotlandsPeople (New website now live).

[Rena]

Decided to try again using my email address together with my password and up popped a notice to say that my complicated password wasn't complicated enough.

Haggis with a couple of digits at the end didn't cut it?

How about Brexit2016?

 

[larkspur]

 

I am going to ask for this to be locked  now as there is another on the same subject here and I don't want to confuse the issue.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=753942.new;topicseen#new

[anne_p]

Daft Question?
Does anyone understand the significance of of age at death:  131yrs?

On a random search of Rutherglen deaths, I spotted the age at death on a number of people is entered as 131yrs

Out of sheer curiosity, I widened my search and discovered that on statutory records 1855-2016,  in Rutherglen alone there are 856 death entries over 5 pages where the deceased is aged 131yrs


I actually hold 2 of these death certs
Both were.... children under 5yrs of age ?

[Forfarian]

Does anyone understand the significance of of age at death:  131yrs?

Either an error or a bug or a glitsch. Nothing of any significance. I came across one of those as well.

[Gadget]

Does anyone understand the significance of of age at death:  131yrs?

I think it was on Facebook or their 'known technical issues' page . When they were originally coding, the space for age was entered as '---' or similar when no age was given. This has been interpreted as 131 on the records.

So it just means  age not known/not given.

added - here it is - scroll down to Searching


https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/technical-help/known-technical-issues

[Johnf04]

Well, I fixed my problem. I was blocking 3rd party cookies, and had to allow them for Worldpay and my bank.

[Millmoor]

I go away for a few days and we are now onto page 28!

Before I left I redid an old search for a marriage for George Watson and Catherine Taylor in Fife in 1815. There is one record in the parish of Leuchars and one in the parish of Dairsie. I have already downloaded the Leuchars one. In the old SP for the Dairsie one it stated clearly image not available. That is no longer the case - I assumed it was now available-  and so I clicked on the button and was confronted with a negative saying it is located at New Register House. This cost six credits. I will be interested to see what they have to say when I contact them about it.

William

[Finley 1]

I really tried to be positive about this ... but after todays attempts at accessing one relevant record.  I give up... until it has all settled down.

I wasted all my credits looking for the death of just two people

xin

[hurworth]

Hmmm... I think some the search results are not being presented as usefully as they once did.

You certainly can't narrow things down to a particular day as you once could, and I think you could do that once with deaths.  Sure you can search and search for nicks, but if it's hard to tell whether this is the record you need you could easily waste 6 credits on the wrong records.