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Scotland Genealogy – Part 2

Posted by cameron

September 18, 2007 |

In a recent post I talked about my experience with Scotlandspeople.gov.uk. This is the official site for Scottish records. I was a little disparaging about being nickled and dimed. I have returned to the site since then and had a very pleasant experience. I tried to call the office in Edinburgh on Saturday morning without anyone picking up. I guess they don’t work on Saturdays anymore. I returned to the website to search some more. At my last session I had saved two successful searches and was able to review enough of the records to determine that I need a copy of one birth certificate and one marriage certificate. I noticed a button that had “order extract” on it. Not being certain what that meant I searched on the site to find the contents of an extract. The site had a complete list of the contents of all BMD extracts. From that I was able to determine that, yes, I did want to order the extracts. I ordered the two extracts I needed in a very short time on line. I couldn’t download the extracts but they would be mailed out to me in a certain amount of time. Of course I received e-mail confirmation within minutes. This was all very smooth and modern. Now I know why they aren’t open on Saturdays anymore. No more long distance calls for me. This is a really nice site.


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