ScotlandsPeople User Group 13th Meeting - Minutes

sporran · Post by **sporran** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:41 pm

Hello Mary,

the same information will be presented as in the current results from Statutory Births, Marriages, and Deaths. The difference will be, as stated in the minutes: "Although users will be able to search death records using mother’s maiden surnames these will not be presented in the search results."

Regards,

John

Post by **Ina** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:17 pm

This is great news. Hopefully it will solve a lot of mysteries for many of us.

Ina

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:30 pm

Can someone post a link to the munutes please?

Nina

Post by **AndrewP** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:42 pm

ninatoo wrote:Can someone post a link to the munutes please?

Hi Nina,

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/conte ... ?r=551&973

Then scroll to the foot of the page, and select the last one from the list.

All the best,

AndrewP

Post by **paddyscar** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:33 am

Is there an anticipated roll-out date for access to searches using the Mother's maiden name? My apologies, if it's there and I didn't 'get' it.

Thanks, Frances

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:34 am

Thanks Andrew...I can never find them on my own! What a lot of great work the committee does!

Nina

Post by **Anne H** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:36 am

Fantastic news...OPR Deaths and BMD indexes up to the present day

Let's hope we all break down some of those walls

Regards,
Anne H

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:31 am

paddyscar wrote:Is there an anticipated roll-out date for access to searches using the Mother's maiden name? My apologies, if it's there and I didn't 'get' it.

Thanks, Frances

By inference, see item 16 in the minutes, by the end of the year but GROS' track record in meeting such anticipated dates leaves something to be desired, - so be warned!

David

David Lang · Post by **David Lang** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:05 am

Im being a bit thick here (as always)

I will be able in tim eto search for BMD right up to 2007 online at SP ? Wat information would roughly be available?

And also OPR Death records available to search and download similar to OPR marriage/births

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:21 am

David Lang wrote:I will be able in time to search for BMD right up to 2007 online at SP ? Wat information would roughly be available?

These will be as index entries only (year, name, registration district; and I think age on death records). The images will remain with the time restrictions that are currently on ScotlandsPeople, so don't be looking for a heap of new images becoming available.

David Lang wrote:And also OPR Death records available to search and download similar to OPR marriage/births

Yes, to an extent. The constraint is the level of information in the OPRs regarding deaths. Many of these are mortcloth records only, basically a set of accounts showing the payment made for hiring the mortcloth from the parish church. Only a minority have information at a level similar to the birth or marriage OPRs.

Some parishes never recorded deaths or burials in the OPRs. So these will be more of a "hit or miss" than the other OPRs.

All the best,

AndrewP

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