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By John, on August 9th, 2007% The Register of Corrected Entries (RCE) for Scotland are now available online from Scotland’s People. The RCE is for amending or updating entries in the statutory register as these entries are not allowed to be updated once written. For each entry in the statutory register that has later been corrected, there will appear in the margin a comment along the lines of “See RCE Volume X, Page Y” with a date. I’ve got six certificates that have such a designation: one birth; five deaths.
The birth certificate is Helen Tranor‘s, my great grandmother. It did state that . . . → Read More: Register of Corrected Entries (Scotland)
By John, on February 9th, 2007% As mentioned in Roz’s ramble last week images of the Old Parish Registers for Scotland are now viewable online through Scotland’s People. It’s helped a bit while following the only Scottish line of my ancestors. Beforehand the OPRs were always searchable and you could get a decent transcript of some of the information on them, such as birth date and parents’ names in the case of births, but to see the images can add so much more. It used to cost £10 a pop to have a copy of the image posted to you but now you can donwload . . . → Read More: Old Parish Register Images in Scotland
By Roz, on February 1st, 2007% It’s been a while – two weeks is a long time in genealogy.
Firstly – Psychology 101.
When I first set up my family tree on www.ancestry.co.uk I created it as a “Private Tree”. At some point later, it got accidentally saved as a “Public Tree” and therefore available to the whole world to view. Not a problem in itself, apart from the fact that some annoying “feature” of the tree is that you cannot tell it specifically who is alive and therefore who should be marked as “Living” – the tree displayed all my grandfathers’ details despite the . . . → Read More: Ramble…
By John, on December 12th, 2006% People in those olden days didn’t often know how to read or write. At least, in my family most birth certificates were given the ‘X’ factor by the proud father. This made it tricky when the registrar (or census-taker) had to take your details down. With a bit of luck they would have heard your name before and knew how it was spelt. However, if you happened to be Irish and freshly escaped from the potato famine to Scotland or England, they may have deliberately misspelled your name knowing you couldn’t tell.
This probably accounts for the number of variations . . . → Read More: Sound it Like Devin
By Roz, on December 3rd, 2006% For a while we’ve been trying to find out more about Jessie Ann Inglis. She married Alexander Brand Inglis, but hailed from a completely different branch of Inglises (phew!). Until a few days ago all we knew about her was that she was born in India, around 1849, and married Alexander in India in 1868.
Then we realised that www.ancestry.co.uk had made transcriptions of two more Scottish censuses available – 1851 and 1861. We had already looked on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk but had had no luck in locating Jessie anywhere in Scotland. Trying again on www.ancestry.co.uk and using their new . . . → Read More: Jessie Ann Inglis
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