Future digitisation of Scottish documents

[Chris Paton]

Hi,

People may know about this, but for those who don't, we've just had this posted on the Your Family Tree magazine forum, and I thought it might be worth sharing...

Chris



"For those who may be interested in influencing decisions on future
digitisation projects for Scottish genealogy electronic copies of a
'Questionnaire on possible future website links for genealogists' is
currently available from davina.williams@gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Responses must be received by 16 March 2007.

'A new family history centre called 'ScotlandsPeople Centre' will open
in Edinburgh around Easter 2008. This Centre will have software that
will allow visitors to the Centre to access birth, death, marriage and
census records [already currently available over the web], as well as
wills and testaments and Arms and Heraldry. …

We want to take forward a digitisation programme in partnership with
the National Archives of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland,
the National Museum of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland,
the Registers of Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and
Historic Monuments of Scotland that will allow the collections held by
these organisations to be accessible on line through both the
ScotlandsPeople Centre software and the websites maintained by each of
the organisations.

As a collective partnership, we plan to request additional funds from
the Scottish Executive to digitise parts of the collections held by
the organisations listed above that would interest genealogists… we
need to know exactly which of the suggested themes … are of interest
to you. …'

Janice McFarlane
Enquiries & Reference Services Manager
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh
EH1 1EW
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)131 623 3824
Fax: +44 (0)131 623 3830
Email: j.mcfarlane@nls.uk"

[LesleyB]

Hi Chris
Thanks for alerting us to this.

Best wishes
Lesley