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[Polwarth]

The 'Scotlandspeople' site of the GRO can be contacted via the internet. They do not expect you to turn up in person - but obviously, a visit to Edinburgh would help, if it turned out you needed to visit other archives in the City!

[Shelle02]

noted Thx

[ScotSites]

A quick look at Advice on Tracing Your Family Tree might be worth a look... there's certainly some good hints and tips, as well as a few sites to try, in there! Good luck in your quest Shelle!

[Shelle02]

Thx I will look back at that one

Originally Posted by Polwarth

Have you tried the General Register Office, based in Edinburgh? It has births/deaths/marriages of most Scots since records began, plus Old Parish records from before the census dates? It is not a free service, but if you know the questions you want to ask, and you marshall them in some sort of order, it isn't an expensive service!

General Register Office for Scotland

The GRO is changing it charges soon (it may have already done so), with credits lasting for substantially longer than they did previously.

[Polwarth]

That's interesting. Perhaps they get so many requests, they can afford to drop the pro-rata costs and still make a healthy profit!

Originally Posted by Scotsgait

The GRO is changing it charges soon (it may have already done so), with credits lasting for substantially longer than they did previously.

I've now traced the email where I'd read that. It said:

Extension of validity period for credits plus increase in cost of credits

We are pleased to announce that from 1 April 2011, any credits purchased will be valid for one year rather than 90 days. Remember that you do not lose any un-used credits when the period of validity has expired; when you buy more credits they will simply be added to your existing credits.

Since we launched ScotlandsPeople back in 2002 we have kept the cost of 30 credits to £6. We also launched the provision of Extracts for modern statutory records back in 2008 and the cost of an Extract purchased on line has remained at £10.

From 1 April 2011 the cost of 30 credits will rise to £7 and the cost of an Extract will rise to £12. These changes have been necessary to help fund the flexibility and availability of our services as well as fund the cost of providing an Extract and were approved by the Scottish Parliament through the Registration Services (Fees) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2010.