kiterunner
02-12-16, 07:27
One of FMP's new databases this week is called "Scotland Non-Old Parish Registers Vital Records 1647-1875"
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/scotland-non-old-parish-registers-vital-records-1647-1875
The original records are held by the National Records of Scotland and have been diligently transcribed by Graham and Emma Maxwell.
They seem to be the same records which the Maxwells have on their own site, Scottish Indexes:
http://www.scottishindexes.com/recordsets.aspx
but on there they are called Non-OPR births / baptisms, banns / marriages, and deaths / burials.
Non-OPR makes perfect sense to me, as they are records not taken from the Old Parish Registers (aka Old Parochial Registers), but Non-Old Parish Registers just looks as though it means they aren't old! I thought for a moment that they had found modern Scottish parish registers and had transcribed those, till I saw the date range.
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/scotland-non-old-parish-registers-vital-records-1647-1875
The original records are held by the National Records of Scotland and have been diligently transcribed by Graham and Emma Maxwell.
They seem to be the same records which the Maxwells have on their own site, Scottish Indexes:
http://www.scottishindexes.com/recordsets.aspx
but on there they are called Non-OPR births / baptisms, banns / marriages, and deaths / burials.
Non-OPR makes perfect sense to me, as they are records not taken from the Old Parish Registers (aka Old Parochial Registers), but Non-Old Parish Registers just looks as though it means they aren't old! I thought for a moment that they had found modern Scottish parish registers and had transcribed those, till I saw the date range.