Searching for births at SP

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:10 pm

Hi all,

I just read at another site that it was possible to search birth records using the christian name (and surname) of one or both parents. I have always thought this was not so...if this IS the case, can someone please let me know how it is done?

Nina

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:43 pm

Hi Nina

I guess I'd like to know too!

No way on SP to achieve this that I'm aware of. Any chance they were referring to the "parent" search allowable on the IGI??

Best wishes
Jean

fmackay · Post by **fmackay** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:16 pm

Hi
There is a site for Orkney connections where you can search for a child by their name or by the parent(s)name - it then gives you all the children in that family. I use the site a lot for my Orkney folk - it is however for the OPR's not the stat records. There is also the census for Westray on it.
Fiona
the site is
http://tilley.dynodns.net:8000/

Alison Plenderleith · Post by **Alison Plenderleith** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:58 pm

Hi Nina,

In the OPRs on SP you can put in the child's surname and one or both parents first and/or surnames.

Unfortunately you can't do this for statutory registrations

Kind regards,

Alison

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:45 pm

Thanks, that's what I thought too...I don't think it is worth correcting the person as it was an old post. The person did write specifcially Scotland's People.

It would be a wonderful thing if we COULD search the records that way, don't you think? It would probably fill in a lot of those ten year gaps between children where you just KNOW there were more siblings, but they had died between censuses!

Oh well, we can dream.....

Nina

Douglas P · Post by **Douglas P** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:06 pm

Parents names can be used to search Scottish records from 1855 to 1875 on the IGI at:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ ... search.asp

One way to do this is via the Hugh Wallis site at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com ... otland.htm

This allows you to select a batch of records for a parish and search for a surname. You can then refine the search by entering the parents names. Unfortunately, as the database only goes to 1875 it isn't as extensive as Scotland's People, but it can still be useful.

ninatoo · Post by **ninatoo** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:34 pm

Hi and welcome to TalkingScot Douglas.

Thanks for the link and tips. Yes I use the parent search at IGI frequently, but they do not have every record there (at least not in my case).

Thanks for the reply,

Nina