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Members can view additional Society information and have access to the following online resources:
BMDsThe Society has over 130,000 records of BMDs and other events which can be searched & viewed, CensusAll the Orkney census can be searched & viewed, Members PageSociety & Member information, Message BoardPost you own and view other members queries, MIsGravestone inscriptions & photos can be searched & viewed, ParishesEach parish has a page with relevant information, ResourcesOur resources have been indexed and can be searched, some documents can be viewed, eg Poor Lists, Sib Folk NewsPast issues of our magazine are available for online searching & viewing, TreesMembers can maintain their own tree online. The paper trees, held in the office, are being scanned and put on the website. All the trees can be searched & viewed
Sib Folk NewsThis magazine is issued quarterly to our members and also available online.
The 24 pages are full of interesting articles submitted by our members and it’s not unusual for one of these to provide a snippet of information providing a link to a missing relative.
Resources
Visitors to our office, in the Orkney Library & Archive, are ensured of a warm welcome by our volunteers. Their wealth of local knowledge, together with the great variety of collected & donated material we hold, can generally help anyone compile a detailed history of their ancestors.The resources include: Census, BMDs, Monumental Inscriptions, Family Trees, a myriad of other social records. Much of this information is available online for our Members and the website’s search facilities allow easy retrieval of transcripts & documents.
Members Section
These pages provide additional Society information and the Members Directory.Members can post their queries on the Message Board.