No Image.....

Scozzie · Post by **Scozzie** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:48 am

I looked for my grandmother (Isabella Dunn Robertson) on Scotland's People. Found 25 with the same name, but I think I found her, because of her middle name. It was marked "no image". I realise that means they don't have a page in a book with her details. Anybody know why not? At least it only cost me 1 credit!

Post by **AndrewP** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:58 am

Hi Scozzie,

What year were you looking at? If it was pre-1855, then it is from the OPRs for which the images are not available online yet. If it was 1855 onwards, what was the year and GROS data? I think there may still be a few which have indexing problems, where a second registration book was started in a district within one year. I have seen the like in NRH, and believe it will apply the same in SP. There were a few years where the images were of poor quality and were not online. I don't know if that is still the case or if that issue has been resolved.

All the best,

Andrew

Scozzie · Post by **Scozzie** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:53 pm

Hi Andrew, I had to start with a guess. I knew my grandfather's (George McKinlay) dob (14/04/1892), so tried my grandmother's name with +-5 years. There's always been a bit of confusion as to gran's name, but the SP site had what I thought it was - Isabella Dunn Robertson. It gives her year of birth as 1894 in Lesmahagow Lanarkshire. There were 25 Isabella Robertsons, only one with Dunn as a middle name. I can't find the Robertsons anywhere. I'm going away for a few days, I'll try looking for her parents (John & Isabella) again when I get back. I believe her mother's maiden name was Craig, but can't be sure of that either. I don't know how many siblings my grandmother had.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:51 pm

I think that there are still isolated instances of such low quality images that they have not yet come on-line.

What the situation is with respect to supplementary registers, I don't know. I'll ask. Each year the registrars had to order the blank registers for use in the following year. A very small rural registration district might only require 10 pages registers, but a large city RD might need 200 page registers, or whatever.

Occasionally a register was filled up before the end of the year so that a new, supplementary register had to be started. Unfortunately there was no method of having this supplementary register start with the entry number after the final number in the original register, producing the confusing situation where, in the same year there were two Entry No.1's, two Entry No.2's, and so on............... In the indexes at NRH this is indicated by the RD number having the suffix SU/B, but I'm uncertain how this is handled on SP........

David

Post by **AndrewP** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:23 pm

DavidWW wrote:Occasionally a register was filled up before the end of the year so that a new, supplementary register had to be started. Unfortunately there was no method of having this supplementary register start with the entry number after the final number in the original register, producing the confusing situation where, in the same year there were two Entry No.1's, two Entry No.2's, and so on............... In the indexes at NRH this is indicated by the RD number having the suffix SU/B, but I'm uncertain how this is handled on SP........

The SU/B suffix is used on the old "black & green screen" index in NRH. In the DIGROS system, if I remember rightly, there is an X added to the index number. For a long time, after DIGROS was installed there, the index could not cope with linking these to the images, so you had to get the microfiche out. I am not sure if that has been resolved yet.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson