New Scottish Indexes records, and next conference date

At the latest Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) conference on Saturday 9^th September, Graham and Emma Maxwell announced the release of two new major collections on their site:

Crown Office Opinions (AD13)

The first is the release of a first tranche of indexes from the AD13 Opinions collection. Normally to search for details of a criminal case heard at a Sheriff Court you consult the Crown Counsel Procedure Books. If no proceedings are stated to have happened, it did not go to court. But why? The AD13 Opinions can shed light on that, with a range of documents from the period 1825-1855 of opinions from the Crown Office on the viability of cases. They include basic details on a case, as well as information about prisons and any bail granted. Scottish Indexes has a made a start on indexing these, with records from 1825-1833 now searchable in the Crown Counsel Procedure Books Index. Some cases deal with sudden deaths also.

Court of Session cases index

The second release is a Court of Session records index, with 600,000 entries already included from cases heard with Scotland's highest civil court, and with more to be added soon. They can include all sorts of cases, including tutorial appointments and divorces. You can find out more about these from a presentation by Graham hosted at https://www.scottishindexes.com/learningcs.aspx.

The conference handout is also now available at https://www.scottishindexes.com/pdf/handout21.pdf

The next Scottish Indexes conference will be on November 25th 2023.

(With thanks to Emma and Graham)

 

Chris

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