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Births of boys and girls were indexed separately, though this is of no consequence when searching online. The indexes show:

 child’s name.

 registration district.

 reference number. Twins are not identified explicitly in the records, but can sometimes be spotted by reference numbers that indicate their appearance on the same or adjacent pages as another child in the same district with the same surname.

 from 1929 mothers’ maiden names appear, making it much easier to search for all children of a particular couple, or indeed for an illegitimate child (where the child’s surname and mother’s maiden surname will be the same).

Birth certificate for Alexandrina MacLeod, from family papers. She was born at ‘9 hours pm’ on 4 January 1905 (the year is very badly written but can be confirmed from the clearer date of registration, 16 January 1905) at Badnaban, Assynt. The record includes her parents’ date and place of marriage (courtesy of Mrs Moira Crowley).