From Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society (www.gwsfhs.org.uk), news of a new collection available in the members only area of the website:
Glasgow High Kirk baptisms - volume 1, 1609-1625 published online
Today, we published on-line, in our member only area, the first volume of an indexed full transcription of the Glasgow High Church Baptism registers for the period 1609 to 1777. The transcription includes Godparents/Witnesses, and their Occupations where they occur. It includes whether the child was ‘lawful’ or ‘natural’ born.
The dataset was captured and indexed from typescript transcripts of Glasgow High Church Baptism registers created by Dr Arthur Jamieson, founding Chairman of GWSFHS, in the 1960's and 70s.
See https://www.gwsfhs.org.uk/data-sets/glasgow-high-kirk-baptisms/
(Dr Jamieson prepared his transcription independently of the LDS index and so it is valuable as another interpretation of the manuscript documents. Previously, Jamieson’s transcription was available only as typescript volumes held in the GWSFHS library and the Mitchell Library. There are 29 volumes, with more to follow in due course.)
(With thanks to Murray Archer)
Chris
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