Greenock Folks

Post by **Ina** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:19 pm

Hi Robert,

I too wish they would put them on the internet.

I know they are supposed to charge for lookups, but when I was home last year, I went up to the cemetery and they did several lookups for me and didn't charge me.

I found the employees there to be very helpful. They even drove me up to one of the sites. When we got there it was all overgrown with bushes and the actual monument had been knocked over. They called in a crew of workers to clean the site up so that I could see the inscriptions on the headstone. They told me they will arrange to have the gravesite repaired.

I'll see if they follow through on the promise when I go home next year.

Regards,

Ina

Robert1893 · Post by **Robert1893** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:59 pm

Hi Ina,

The staff in the office and the groundstaff are very helpful. I have had some information without charge and on several occasions the groundstaff have led us to the locations of lairs. Nothing seems too much trouble for them. In some cases there are no gravestones for my ancestors but they take time to pace out from a known lair number to locate the grave. The man in charge of the office helped me two years ago and said that they were looking into trying to provide the lair information in a more useful way. After all, since they are consulting the old handwritten books, it must be causing wear and tear to them.

Best wishes

Robert

Post by **joette** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:18 pm

Neither of mine here -Ross & Greer but what a great resource.

tishgibbons · Post by **tishgibbons** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:06 pm

Just my luck - I'm looking for Gauld and Wilson but there are no G's or W's yet! Something to look forward to I suppose!

Tish

kenspeckle · Post by **kenspeckle** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:43 am

Hi All the BMDs indexes are downloading ok now

I had trouble in the beginning with anything 1mb and over and wrote and told them he was nice enough to send me direct the one I was after

its now sorted though still not some of the initials I am sweating on becoming avail I will keep checking
I have found heaps on it on the ones that are avail though and all very much appreciated
best to all lesley

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:36 am

Thanks Lesley,

Nice to hear things are now working OK. It’s a great site for anyone from that area.

Alan

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:24 am

Where the heck are the E's?

(Mumble mumble, it's not fair.....darn it!)

kenspeckle · Post by **kenspeckle** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:29 am

try the Gale newspaper trial as its still going maybe something in the papers look under 1600 - 1900 as it covers Glasgow & Renfrew

just put in the surname and then select people and all the BDMs should come up

Location: http://access.gale.com/gdctrial/login.html

Login: virtual
Password: books
E-mail: rcc1934@aol.com
good hunting lesley

kenspeckle · Post by **kenspeckle** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:49 pm

I contacted Greenock to ask when the other names will be done and its looking good below is the reply .....and many thanks to the folk who do the transcriptions

I am glad that you find the BMD index useful.
We are currently continuing to process the entries and transcribe them into computer files for download. I cannot give you a definite date for when the rest of the files will be available but at the current rates I am hopeful that we should have transcribed everything towards the end of this year. We normally post the computer downloads within a day or so after they are received from the transcribers so the main rate determining step is the transcription process itself. Hopefully the whole index will be available by the end of 2008.

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