For those into memories/history etc. two brilliant sites for you to log onto. Under Scotland's People I have managed to print off copies of birth, marriage and death certificates for both sides of the family for Grandparents - Greatgrandparents - Great, Greatgrandparents, - and - Great, Great, Greatgranparents going back to the early 1800s (all contain suprising info. that leads you on to other searches). This research led to me making some facinating discoveries about extended members of the family- some good, some not so good.
Also managed to find most of them on most of the census records going back to about 1851. You get the street name and number, all members of family listed and their age,occupations plus other info. It really is a detective challenge especially if you come across a relative with a name like Donald Macdonald and they were born in Inverness-shire!
On Ancestry UK website I managed within 10 minutes of searching to get and print my Grandfathers Great War Pension record, 6 pages of facinating information - his Medal record/list 1 page - and his sign up papers and Service record including all records of his hospital visits and wounds another 6 pages. Really, really amazing stuff!
Try it out it is not difficult but it will cost you some cash as you purchase credits to view the records.
Anyone else on here tried it? How did you go and what did you find out?