New and updated ScotlandsPeople

ScotlandsPeople, the official pay-per-view website for Scottish records, with almost 80 million records to access, has a new look.<  http://ww1.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/>

It still includes statutory registers of births, marriages and deaths, old parish registers and newly incorporated catholic registers, censuses, wills and testaments and coats of arms.

According to the site the new features are:

• Enhanced free surname search
• One character restrictions on wildcards
• Surname no longer required field in search forms
• Refine Search Button
• Saved search criteria
• Fuzzy searching, Name Variant and Metaphone options for name fields
• Direct View Image Viewer
• Easy reporting of transcription and image issues
• Mapping of search results and images
• Advanced Searching