GOT MY FIRST OPR..YIPEE

Post by **emanday** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:01 am

LesleyB wrote:Hi Mary
Silent promise to credit card: I will be good! I will be good! I will be good!
I don't believe that for a minute!

Me neither, but it sounded good as I said it

paddyscar wrote:They'll be doing 'the dance of joy' at the VISA (et al) offices tonight!

Not a pretty picture I imagine, with their grabby wee arms waving around

NOTE to any members who work for a CC company - I don't mean you, I mean your bosses

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:11 am

I am trying to find OPR's at the IGI and it is extremely slow and times out. I can imagine people checking their records at the IGI before a search at SP, or doing parent searches at the IGI following confirmation of an OPR marriage.

So the repurcussions of the OPR's at SP are not just affecting the credit cards!

Nina

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:49 am

AndrewP wrote: Plan B: The better way to print the OPR images is to do so from some program other than your internet browser. When viewing in your internet browser, right click on it and save it. Then view the saved image in a viewer program such as Windows Picture and Fax Viewer or Microsoft Office Picture Manager (or other picture viewing or editing program that you have on your PC). Print the image from that program. You should get a full print.
AndrewP

I have used this method for some time since the ActiveX problems started. There is one thing I found, that I had, for no apparent reason, to enlarge one step in Java for the right click to "save image" to work. After that, "Bob´s yer uncle".......

Guid printing,

Thrall

P.S. Printed my first OPR. ....

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:55 am

I have always used direct download since I joined SP. There is a free program called Irfanview - reads every imaginable type of image file. I then use it to open view and print the images. It does a "best fit to page" for printing - you can select portrait or landscape - brilliant!

Also means I have copies of all my images - so if SP decides to give up saving all my searches etc, I still have them (and before someone asks - I backup on a regular basis

)

Trish

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:33 am

Hello all you people doing the OPR's are here Happy Dance.

I havent done any searches yet (fingers crossed) I dont want the credit card to do a meltdown, especially just after they increased the time to 90 days

I must search through and find out who I already have marriage dates for and maybe births, but mine look like their a bunch of heathens.

Hope you all find what your looking for in the OPR's

Post by **joette** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:23 pm

My problem is that I have been researching for so long that I started off with the OPR's so there are noo many I don't have!The ones that I want don't exsist-they just lived together or the Minister didn't bother to record anything or they didn't survive.
I will have another bash & if I find any of my brickwalls you will all hear my cheers & the neighbours will have me committed(that will be me blubbering in the street & shouting "I just knew that Maggie was really Jane's wean" etc!!!!!

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:39 pm

sheilajim wrote:....snipped.......
I have found my first illegitimate birth! At least I think I have. It said "natural "instead of lawful, but they must have gotten married later, because the next birth from this couple in 1806 says "lawful". I still haven't found any record of their marriage though.

Sheila

And remember, in Scots Law, as long as they were free to marry at the time of conception of the "natural" wain", the subsequent marriage automatically legitimated wain #1, from its birth

David

sheilajim · Post by **sheilajim** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:22 pm

Hi David

I didn't know that about Scots Law. I guess that my GGGGrandfather is legitmate after all. It is very strange that I can't find any record of their marriage. They were still living in the same village of Fintry in 1806 that they were living in 1799.

Regards

Sheila

JohnGlass · Post by **JohnGlass** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:45 am

Hi David,
That might explain one of my OPR's,which has three entries at the bottom (same handwriting) but different handwriting to the rest of the page.
Mine is one of those and the page is for 1839 but the date of registration is 14/5/1842 and the entry states it is for child (1).Child (2) was Reg the same day 14/5/1842 on the relevant OPR.So you can fes up and have it recorded it appears.

John

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:40 am

Wasn't it also a matter of cost? I remember reading somewhere that you had to pay the minister to baptise the children, so sometimes a family would get 'two for one' by having them baptised on the same day.

Nina