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From: "Barbara Lewis" <>
Subject: What records are available through the FHL....
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 07:11:05 -0700

Listers, this is what is available through the FHL:

Records at the Family History Library
The Family History Library has microfilm copies of civil birth, marriage,
and death records for the years 1855 through 1875, 1881, and 1891. To find
these records, look in the Locality Search of the Family History Library
Catalog under SCOTLAND - CIVIL REGISTRATION.

You can also find microfilm numbers by looking in the following register:

Register of Births, Marriages, and Deaths of Scotland. Salt Lake City: The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Library, 1987.
(FHL book Reg 941 V2; fiche 6035516.)

Birth and marriage records from 1855 to 1875 have been extracted and appear
in the International Genealogical Index.


Indexes to Civil Registration Records
Indexes can help you find your ancestors' civil registration records. The
Registrar General creates nationwide indexes after receiving the records
from the local registrars. These indexes are arranged by year and give name,
place of registration, and entry number.


The Family History Library has microfilmed the indexes for the years 1855 to
1955. You can find them by looking in the Locality Search of the Family
History Library Catalog under SCOTLAND - CIVIL REGISTRATION.


When searching the indexes, you should be aware that:


Marriage indexes for females (1855-64) are arranged alphabetically by maiden
surname. The husband's surname appears in parentheses.


Death indexes for females (1855-64) are arranged in alphabetical order under
her married surname with her maiden surname in parentheses.


After 1864, death indexes list women under both their maiden surnames and
their married surnames.


A "Mc" or "Mac" surname may be found in the indexes at the end of the M
section.


There is an additional index at the end of each yearly index called the Vide
Addenda. This index lists names missed in the regular index. A
cross-reference to the Vide Addenda will usually be found in the regular
index.

Some births, marriages, and deaths were registered late. These "neglected
entries" cover the period from about 1820 to 1860 and were registered
between 1860 and 1868. They are on one roll of microfilm (FHL film 103538).

If you cannot find an index entry, consider the following strategies:


Surnames are often found under unexpected spellings. Look for variations.


Events are filed by the date registered, not the date occurred. For example,
a birth on 20 December may have been registered in January of the following
year.


Indexes were hand-prepared and may contain copying errors and omissions.


A person may have been registered under a different name than was used later
in life.


A woman's surname in the marriage index may be her surname by a previous
marriage.


Family information (particularly age at death) is often misleading.


Persons with common names may be difficult to identify in the index.

An illegitimate child may be registered under the mother's maiden name.

Some children were registered as "male" or "female" when a name had not been
selected at the time of registration.

Not every person was registered.

(This info was taken from the Scotland Resource Outline)

Barbara Lewis
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