Family Search Records/Finding Aunt and Uncle.....

[AnnieMac]

Hi - can anyone help??

My father was the youngest of the family born William Douglas Sinclair 20th June 1971.

Parents William Peter Sinclair/Margaret Crawford Macfarlane

My Uncle - James, was six years older than Dad, and my Aunt Muriel/Murial - am not sure but think she was the middle child. Would love to find when they were born/died.

In relation to Family Search, why do they have a reasonable amount of modern records, and bearing in mind how registering everything by the 1900's was much more formal/normal, can't I find Aunt and Uncle?

Where do they get the records from? I find their site fairly frustating really.

Thanks
Annie

[AndrewP]

Hi Annie,

Welcome to TalkingScot.

Recent records are not available online. To see these, you have to go to New Register House, Edinburgh, or have someone go there on your behalf.

Online records are covered by closure of 100 years for births, 75 years for marriages and 50 years for deaths. So the most recent certficates to be found online are 1904, 1929 and 1954 for births, marriages and deaths respectively. The certificates for before these dates are available on a pay per view basis at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk back to 1855. Prior to that is another ball game.

Family Search extracted Scottish records up to 1875. Newer records there are submitted, rather than taken from the records. These can be difficult to verify.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

[AnnieMac]

Hi Andrew

Now very confused. I have just done a search (should have call it IGI site before) and got this, (not that its relevant to my family)

Bother can't paste the Snagged screen, but the record is for a Peter Sinclair death 12 Dec 1967

Annie

[AndrewP]

Yes, that death can be found on the FamilySearch website. The important sentence is the one on the record page.

• Form submitted by a member of the LDS Church. The form lists the submitter's name and address and may include source information. The address may be outdated. Details vary. To find the form, you must know the batch and sheet number.

It is a submitted entry to the LDS. These entries are a minority, and unless you can contact the person who submitted it, or find a matching death certificate (at New Register House) then you cannot verify it to be correct. It is probably correct, but on its own that cannot be proven. To prove it as correct, yuou need to see the death certificate.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

[AnnieMac]

Thanks Andrew,

Very new to this, so thought when I saw this type of record I might find Aunt/Uncle.

Ohh well, another thing to add to the list when I eventually do a trip back to Scotland and go the Records office in Edinburgh.

Annie