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Sue from Southend
05-10-11, 08:47
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/media/news/news-item.jsp?doc=scotland.html

Shame I haven't any Scots in my tree....

ElizabethHerts
05-10-11, 09:07
HURRAH! A quarter of my family is Scottish. Now I can search without worrying about cost.

I knew this would come some time soon, because I attended a talk by Scotlands People at Olympia in February.

ElizabethHerts
05-10-11, 09:16
Bother, no images.

However, for 1851 for Banffshire there is only one page of Richardsons, and most of those are mine!

Rachel
05-10-11, 09:56
Are these transcriptions only ?

Mary from Italy
05-10-11, 10:58
Yes, the Scottish authorities aren't allowing the images to go online yet. But the Ancestry Scottish transcriptions are so bad, the FMP ones can only be an improvement.

kiterunner
05-10-11, 10:58
Yes, they say in their email that

Due to the General Register Office for Scotland's licensing regulations, it is not possible to view the original census images on findmypast.co.uk


If they were allowed to supply the images then I would think ancestry would be as well.

ElizabethHerts
05-10-11, 11:37
It will help me because I might be able to find wider family. I'm looking at transcriptions for three surnames in particular and I have already got some possible extra siblings for some people. It is too expensive to do this on Scotland's People.