How to Get Full Details for a Marriage Entry

 ScotlandsPeople
   web site:

 http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ 

You can search in the indexes found at  ScotlandsPeople to a comprehensive set of a wide range of historical official records held by the General Register Office for Scotland, and not only for the marriage registers found indexed on my web site.  (On 1 September 2002 the service that Origins.net provided for the General Register Office for Scotland [GROS] ended.  GROS indexes and images are no longer available on Scots Origins.  Instead, a partnership between the General Register Office for Scotland and Scotland On Line, ScotlandsPeople, is the official online source of parish register, civil registration and census records for Scotland.)

When you reach the ScotlandsPeople web site, the explanatory pages are free, but thereafter interactive searching on the site, for an individual entry, is on a 'pay-per-view' basis.

You can view images of some of the records, or a paper copy of an official extract can be ordered electronically for delivery by ordinary post at the statutory fee.

You cannot search on the ScotlandsPeople site for 'recent' register entries (births less than 100 years ago, marriages less than 75 years ago and deaths less than 50 years ago), so it cannot generally be used to look up living persons.

In my opinion, it is a great idea to acquire from the GROS a full extract of your "record of interest".  If any changes or corrected entries have been made by the Registrar General for Scotland in the last 30 or 40 years, you will want to know about them.  If you are like me, you would agree that there can be nothing as rewarding as seeing the actual record for yourself - especially since my web site has not given you the actual date of death anyway!

My transcriptions on this web site are accurate to the best of my ability.

 Ordering Family History Library microfilms:

The Genealogical Society of Utah, by courtesy of the Registrar General for Scotland, put the following years of marriage registers on microfilm. . .
here is a summary of the FHL microfilm numbers, if you would like to order the microfilms for yourself to view images of the actual registers, from
 your local Family History Center Library :

Old Parish Registers  (births/baptisms/marriages/some deaths)...

  approx. 17th-century to 1819  ~  film #990,512 
  1820 to 1854  ~  film #990,513

OR, a recent filming by the Genealogical Society of Utah combined these two
Old Parish Registers microfilms onto a single film roll, that being film #101,961



  Civil Marriage Register for 1855  ~  # 103,586

  Civil Marriage Register for 1856  ~  # 256,512

  Civil Marriage Register for 1857  ~  # 280,134

  Civil Marriage Register for 1858  ~  # 280,169

  Civil Marriage Register for 1859  ~  # 280,211

  Civil Marriage Register for 1860  ~  # 292,759

  Civil Marriage Register for 1861  ~  # 224,154

  Civil Marriage Register for 1862  ~  # 294,861

  Civil Marriage Register for 1863  ~  # 294,904

  Civil Marriage Register for 1864  ~  # 323,603

  Civil Marriage Register for 1865  ~  # 330,163

  Civil Marriage Register for 1866  ~  # 333,277

  Civil Marriage Register for 1867  ~  # 348,983

  Civil Marriage Register for 1868  ~  # 363,192

  Civil Marriage Register for 1869  ~  # 384,470

  Civil Marriage Register for 1870  ~  # 363,130

  Civil Marriage Register for 1871  ~  # 224,531

  Civil Marriage Register for 1872  ~  # 300,204

  Civil Marriage Register for 1873  ~  # 300,251

  Civil Marriage Register for 1874  ~  # 347,919

  Civil Marriage Register for 1875  ~  # 363,291

  Civil Marriage Register for 1881  ~  # 233,464

  Civil Marriage Register for 1891  ~  # 256,070

 Or, are you my cousin?

 Ask me if I am your cousin! 
Perhaps you are a cousin, connected to my South Ronaldsay Line?
Contact me and maybe I can help.  Otherwise, unless we may be related, please know that I will be unable to provide complete marriage data for all of the entries which I have indexed on this web site, per my agreement with the GROS.

Thank you for visiting my web site!
  I would enjoy hearing your feedback!    - Lisa.