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From: Gary Wemyss <>
Subject: On-line access to Scottish Record
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 08:47:32 -0000

I have just received the following message which will be of interest to those with Scottish ancestry.
Subject: Date of on-line Scottish data
On Monday, 6th April 1998, about 1pm British time, (which would be before 9am US East Coast time) the General Register Office for Scotland is to place a fully searchable index to historic Scottish births, deaths and marriages on the World Wide Web at
http://www.anywhere.co.uk/news.html
The index, one of the world's largest databases of genealogical information, including over 30 million names, covers births/baptisms and banns/marriages from the Old Parish Registers dating from 1553 to 1854, births, marriages, and deaths from the Statutory Index for 1855 to 1897, and census records for 1881 and 1891. Users will be able to order register extracts(e.g. a birth certificate, a census entry) from the GRO(S) via the web.
Additional info---- The charges will be similar to those currently charged by the GRO(S) at New Register House in Edinburgh
General Register Office for Scotland web: www.open.gov.uk/gros/groshome.htm

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