*** 2008 New Data Announcement ***

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:02 pm

ScotlandsPeople have made the folllowing announcement on their website:

We are pleased to announce that this year we have received permission to release the new years statutory data on 31st December 2007. This will comprise records from the Statutory Register of Births for 1907, the Statutory Register of Marriages for 1932, and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1957. Almost 120,000 new index and corresponding image entries have been added to the site, amounting to six gigabytes of data.

Eagle eyed customers will have noticed that the dates given in the newsletter were one year out! Apologies for this.

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/conte ... .aspx?1263

Seven days and counting down. Credit cards at the ready...

All the best,

AndrewP

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:08 pm

Hi Andrew

Seven days and counting down. Credit cards at the ready...

Oh dear-oh.... will the credit card ever recover from this time of year!!?

As my dad used to say, " Ah hae ma doots"

Best wishes
Lesley

Post by **Anne H** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 4:24 pm

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the post. I got the email from SP late last night (I should say very early this morning) and immediately got out the credit card. Well, I kept spending those credits and not finding anything...of course, I wouldn't find anything new, would I

....duh

isn't 31 December yet, is it

All I want for Christmas is some new specs

Regards,
Anne H

Post by **SarahND** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:19 pm

Thank goodness there are still four years to save up for the 1911 census release

That's not just the occasional birth, marriage or death in one year increments... that's everybody

I can't even imagine how much that's going to cost. Maybe we should start a fund for indigent TS members who have been SP-ed into the poorhouse (do you think we'd have access to the records in there?

)

Sarah

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:57 pm

SarahND wrote:Thank goodness there are still four years to save up for the 1911 census release

Probably only three years and a week...

All the best,

AndrewP

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:02 pm

It makes you wonder if Scotlandspeople knew what they were doing when they knew the name would be abbreviated to SP and i think with the new data release a few of the SP's below might apply................

SPend / SPlurge / SPree - say no more !
SPread / SPanned / SPanning - as in when the family is spread over two pages and so have to spend another 5 credits to view the next page
SParing - as in economical with the truth
SPate - as in ….of luck ,when all goes well for a time
SPecious - apparently true but turns out to be false - ring any bells !
SPeculate - who us ?

SPent

Post by **SarahND** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:06 pm

AndrewP wrote: Probably only three years and a week...

Really?

I thought it was in January 2012... I did my homework before posting and found this in the SP FAQs:

Why can't I see later census returns?
The 1901 census is the latest available for public view at present, whether online or in person. To protect the privacy of individuals, census returns may only be inspected after 100 years. The 1911 returns will be available for public inspection in 2012.

I'll be glad to find out I'm wrong, however!

All the best,
Sarah

Tracey

That's brilliant

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:07 pm

Hey Santa! Is it too late to add something to my list? Lot's of credits on SP!

Carol

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:45 pm

SarahND wrote:
AndrewP wrote: Probably only three years and a week...
Really? I thought it was in January 2012... I did my homework before posting and found this in the SP FAQs:

Why can't I see later census returns?
The 1901 census is the latest available for public view at present, whether online or in person. To protect the privacy of individuals, census returns may only be inspected after 100 years. The 1911 returns will be available for public inspection in 2012.

I'll be glad to find out I'm wrong, however!

I had it in my mind for some reason that 2011 was a possibility - I may be wrong (it has been known).

Wishful thinking, perhaps.

All the best,

AndrewP

Post by **SarahND** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:53 pm

AndrewP wrote: - I may be wrong (it has been known).

Really? But then, SP has been known to be wrong sometimes too (note the mistake of the year mentioned above). I'm hoping you're the one who's right this time!

Wishful thinking indeed,
Sarah