The Scots Origins Sighting Service allows users to order details of entries in the old parish registers and the statutory registers for Scotland of births and marriages from 1700 up to 1990 and deaths from 1855 to 1990, plus details of entries in the 1861 and 1871 censuses. Orders may be placed via the Web. The transcribed details, which include all the key information contained in the original entries, are e-mailed to the user within five working days.

The Scots Origins Sighting Service costs £8 (approximately $12 in U.S. dollars) per "sighting" request.

Free services also available from Origins.net include:

Scottish Place Name Database

This free service allows users to identify the county and parish within which particular places are located. This information can be a great help in tracking down source documents, and will be an invaluable adjunct to the new Scots Origins Sighting Service. Users may search on arbitrary place names, including those of streets or even houses. This facility will be particularly helpful to those wanting to find someone on either the 1861 or 1871 census. The database has been based upon 1881 census data, with the agreement of the General Register Office for Scotland and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Enhanced and free access to OPR and Statutory Register index data

Origins.net’s improved interface to the International Genealogical Index allows for searching of the Scottish records directly by parish, which is not possible on the Family Search website. For the period up to 1875, over 90 percent of the birth and marriage records which are in the GROS indexes are also within the IGI. In the IGI you will often find both birth date and baptism date included, while the GROS index almost invariably has only one or the other. And for records of births in the 1855 to 1875 period, the IGI almost invariably has the parents’ names, in contrast to the GROS index, where this is rarely the case.

The Scots Origins Sighting Service is available at: www.scotsorigins.com