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| Robert Burns's records go online | Robert Burns's records go online |
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| The birth and marriage certificates of Scotland's national bard Robert Burns are to be published online for the first time. | |
| It is part of a project which sees all birth, death and marriage certificates going online in time for Burns Night. | |
| The records date back to the 16th century and are now accessible via the ScotlandsPeople website. | The records date back to the 16th century and are now accessible via the ScotlandsPeople website. |
| The birth certificate of the national bard will be on the web along with the record of his marriage to Jean Armour. | The birth certificate of the national bard will be on the web along with the record of his marriage to Jean Armour. |
| Are you marking Burns' birthday? | |
| The record of Robert Burns's birth and his wedding to his Bonnie Jean are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of entries. | The record of Robert Burns's birth and his wedding to his Bonnie Jean are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of entries. |
| They are among the last to be transferred onto computer as part of a £3m project to make everything held by the General Register of Scotland available online. | They are among the last to be transferred onto computer as part of a £3m project to make everything held by the General Register of Scotland available online. |
| That means all of Scotland's Old Parochial Records dating back to 1553 can now be viewed on the site. | That means all of Scotland's Old Parochial Records dating back to 1553 can now be viewed on the site. |
| Users are charged to access the various records. |