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02-12-16, 07:27
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Silliest database title?
One of FMP's new databases this week is called "Scotland Non-Old Parish Registers Vital Records 1647-1875"
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/searc...ords-1647-1875 The original records are held by the National Records of Scotland and have been diligently transcribed by Graham and Emma Maxwell. They seem to be the same records which the Maxwells have on their own site, Scottish Indexes: http://www.scottishindexes.com/recordsets.aspx but on there they are called Non-OPR births / baptisms, banns / marriages, and deaths / burials. Non-OPR makes perfect sense to me, as they are records not taken from the Old Parish Registers (aka Old Parochial Registers), but Non-Old Parish Registers just looks as though it means they aren't old! I thought for a moment that they had found modern Scottish parish registers and had transcribed those, till I saw the date range.
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02-12-16, 08:43
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I agree that non-old means something other than what they are trying to say, but "Non-OPR" would have meant nothing to me, as I wouldn't have known what the O stood for and then would have wondered if the PR did stand for parish registers or something else!
Who are the Maxwells? I just thought of Robert 
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