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As with births, marriages and deaths, the cost to see the results of an index search is 1 credit and to view the
actual church register image is 5 credits. The details of the page including the search name, image type and
reference number are shown at the top of each image.
If you want to view the page before or after, it will cost 5 more credits. Again, once you have paid the 5 credits
to view a page, you can always view it again in the “viewed images” section of the web site.
You can also click on “View Free Header” and you will see the microfilm title plate describing the source of
the record you are viewing.
The amount of information in on OPR record varies but is not as detailed as the births, marriages and
deaths. It may not have much more information than the index entry.
Births/
Christenings
Marriages 1538 -
1854
Indexes Records
Coverage Information Information
1538 – Entry may be a birth, baptism or both. At best, you may find the following: name of
1854 The full date of the event, surname, the child, whether legitimate or not, date of
given name(s) and sex of the child, birth and/or date of baptism, father's name,
parents’ names (often, but not always mother's name and maiden surname, place
including mother’s maiden name), or parish of residence, occupation of the
parish in which the birth or christening father and names (and sometimes
was registered, and the GROS
occupations) of witnesses. Occasionally, as
references. A frame number may in, for example, Dundee, witnesses'
sometimes be included beside the relationship to the child (if any) may be
parents’ names, e.g. FR300. This recorded. At worst, you may find that the
frame number matches the FHL mother's name is not recorded at all between
microfilm for the register.
certain years (as in Alyth parish between
1742 and 1786), or that the entry does not
If the sex of the child was unclear from record the sex of the child and the name is
the original entry, a “U” was used to
indicate the sex. A “U” entry will show
up in both the male and female
searches.
ambiguous.
The Scottish Church Records database
at your Family History Center is also an
excellent index to these same records.
Each index entry includes: full date of
the event, the surname, given name(s)
and sex, the name of the spouse, the
parish where the proclamation of the
banns or the marriage itself was
registered, and the GROS references.
A frame number may sometimes be
included, as noted above.
Note: If a couple resided in different
parishes, the banns may have been
proclaimed in both parishes and two
entries will be found in the index for
that couple under different GROS
reference numbers. The dates may
also vary if the banns were proclaimed
on different days in each parish, or one
may record the date of the banns and
one the date of marriage.
The minimum information will be the names
of the bride and groom, and perhaps a fee
paid.
You may also find the following: date(s) of
the proclamation of intended marriage
and/or date of marriage, parish of residence
of the bride and groom, sometimes the
occupation of the groom and occasionally
the name of the bride's father.