ScotlandsPeople to go offline for a few days next month

In preparation for the imminent revamp and relaunch of the ScotlandsPeople website, the following announcement as been posted at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?2394:

Service announcement for the ScotlandsPeople website

We are writing to let you know that the ScotlandsPeople website will be unavailable from Wednesday 7 September 2016 at 23.59 (BST). This is due to essential planned work which is taking place over this time. The work is expected to be completed and service resumed by Monday 12 September 2016. Please check Facebook or Twitter for updates.

Customers visiting The ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh or using one of the local family history centres will be able to access records as normal on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 September 2016.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and thank you for your patience.

The team at ScotlandsPeople.

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.