How much does it cost

[rickycbr]

How much would it cost to find out information
1, if the person was born on a Scottish island
2, Is it easy to find on a small island or is it harder than on the mainland

Just a rough price please, ricky

[dothawkes31]

It depends on when, if they were born after the start of Civil Registration in Scotland then it is just a search of the national Index. It also depends then on whether you choose to pay a fee to join Scotlands people and search yourself, which won't be alot, or you prefer to pay someone to search for you. Though, it is possible that someone on here already has a subscription and pay feel they can search for you. I can search some Scottish registers on ancestry and I know others have Scotlands People.

[dothawkes31]

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

[rickycbr]

The year i am after is 1890, Just a rough price please Dot would be great.

[rickycbr]

Thank you for that link.

[dothawkes31]

Have you done your own search for them using the above link?

[craft1948]

If it was on one of the Shetland Islands it's free, quick, and easy.....

[annie0000]

How craft? I have decendants on Orkney and have used Scotlands people and I found a website with loads on details for Rousay (one of the Orkney isles) but if you have something else that would be good and rickycbr, I can give you the link I have for Rousay if that is any good to you.

[annie0000]

Also rickycbr - whilst there is less of a population on the islands, I have found that it can be more difficult to pinpoint the right person as there tend to be 2 or 3 dominant surnames and the same forenames repeat regularly. They would often tell each other apart by using nicknames but unfortunately these are not on the registers! However the one advantage is that usually there is someone somewhere who has already documented the history of the island - if only you can find it!

[dothawkes31]

Hi annie, when you have such a family grouping, with common surnames and christian names, it is like you are almost doing a one name study. I have a very similar problem with several prolific families in some Lincolnshire villages. The tried and tested method is to try to allocate every child to the right parents and cteate complete families, then eliminate the children by death or marriage, that way you have a full history and can usually identify your likely one from the research. It is a more expensive way of researching as you need to buy more certificates or obtain more copies of Parish/Chapel regsiter entries. But with patience and by throwing a bit more of your research budget at it, you can usually eliminate and validate each individual.

[annie0000]

Thanks for that Dot - I am really only getting started but it is facinating stuff. Do you have any suggestions to help with tracking back when a child is illegitimate? I have the fathers name from the birth entry, but my usual method of getting the parents (from the marriage entries) is not going to work and as he has a reasonably common name and was a Farm worker, getting the right person without spending loads is quite hard - I have no idea what age he would have been for instance. We are talking Scotland here, so ancenstry.co.uk is no good and with scotlands people you can get through the credits quite quickly if you are not careful!

[craft1948]

annie for any shetlander.....it's easy to manoeuvre around and is the best database I've ever used......
http://bayanne.info/Shetland/