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Marriages in Scotland 1933-2006

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Colin

Colin Report 14 Jun 2008 22:37

Hi

Does anyone know if these can be looked up on-line... ...doesn't matter if its fee paying... ...cheers.

Glen In Tinsel Knickers

Glen In Tinsel Knickers Report 14 Jun 2008 23:56

There are time limits to the online acces of bmd events in Scotland.

Births have a 100 year rule
Marriages have 75 years
Deaths 50 years.

Therefore if a marriage occured within the last 75 years then the record cannot be viewed online, an earlier one however can be found online via ScotlandsPeople.

Info about access and certificates for events within the last 50/75/100 years can be found at the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) website.

Glen

Karen

Karen Report 15 Jun 2008 00:04

would just like to add

my grandfather died in 1979

i can bring his death up on scotlands people

but i cant view the cert i would have to order a copy of it

hope that helps

karen

Denis

Denis Report 15 Jun 2008 08:38

The index to recent marriages will be added to SP this year. The index to recent births and deaths was added last year. While you still cannot view the later certificates you can at least confirm events and order the certificates online. Might also be worth approaching the appropriate local Registrar, if known.

Glen In Tinsel Knickers

Glen In Tinsel Knickers Report 15 Jun 2008 09:50

Scottish Registrars are now part of DIGROS (Digital Imaging of the Genealogical Records of Scotland’s people), each register office has access to digitised images of bmd events from 1855 to 2006, in theory this allows any office to locate any image regardless of whether the event took place within their district or not.

Easiest way to locate the register offices throughout Scotland is via the following link;

http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Scotland


There are address, phone, e-mail and url contact details listed on a county basis.

Glen