Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Scottish Parochial Registers: Memoranda of the State of the Parochial Registers of Scotland, Whereby Is Clearly Shown the Imperative Necessity for a National System of Regular Registration
It will, at a single glance, be obvious that the light thrown' upon this vital point of statistics by the contributors to the new work, is of the most meagre quality and, which is more to be regretted, it will be manifest that, with many marked and commendable exceptions, the value of this ele ment of civil polity appears not merely to be unappreciated, but literally unperceived by the clergy. Hence, instead of deprecating its neglect, or specifying the absence or exist ence of a systematic registration in their parishes, we some times find them under the head of Parochial Records providing lengthy extracts from sessional records, contain ing incidents curious enough in themselves, and amusing to the antiquary, but quite remote from the great object for which the information sought at their hands was required.
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