The Scottish Catholic Archives has launched an impressive new website at www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk.
Amongst its offerings is a History of the Archive (https://www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/History) and a detailed Genealogy section (https://www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/Home/Genealogy) exploring many of the Scottish Catholic vital records and other sources that can help with research, and providing links through to both FindmyPast and ScotlandsPeople. Findmypast hosts about twice as many records as ScotlandsPeople, with the site explaining why this is at https://www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/Home/Parish-Register-Project:
The second phase was carried out in 2004, the Bishops decided, for preservation reasons, to call in all the historic registers into the Scottish Catholic Archive to facilitate the preservation and digitisation of them. These were retained in the Archive and a copy was issued for retention in the parishes. The digital images created were indexed and made available to the public via the government’s web site “Scotland’s People”, where they generate a small return used to cover the cost of the digitisation and indexing that took place. This has been a very successful operation and has ensured for the future these very valuable registers.
As with the first phase of the project, these coved all Scottish parishes in existence before 1855; the records of Glasgow's Catholic cemetery; and the records of the RC Bishopric of the Forces, which records all sacramental events for British service men and women serving in the armed forces worldwide.
We now find ourselves at the third stage in the Parish Register Project, with the signing of the contract with Find my Past. This phase also necessitates the calling into the Archive of the Parish Registers from the parishes founded before and including 1950, and will ensure their preservation well into the future. The original register where accessioned in to the archive for long term preservation and copies where sent out to the parishes.
There is also a useful section detailing its Collections at https://www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/Collections.
Plenty to get stuck into - enjoy!
Chris
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