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 ===Kirk Sessions===
-Most Kirk Sessions continue either be accessible only in person at regional archives in Scotland. However a small number have been digitised and can be found on FamilySearch, sometimes in the Catalog. Scotlandspeople are in "the final stages" of making more of them available online. See this guide [https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/church-court-records-online Church Court Records] for more information.
+Most of the original Kirk Session records can now be accessed in person at many regional archives across Scotland and abroad via FamilySearch's Family History Centers in many countries. However only a very small number have been indexed and which can be found on FamilySearch and by other websites. See the first link under "Research Guidance" below, to a page providing the researcher with the most comprehensive List (currently) of online Nonconformist and non-subscribing church register entries and strategies for finding such ancestors.
+Sources out of Scotland suggest that there are in "the final stages", plans to make more of the non-subscribing and Nonconformist register entries available online. Also see this [https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/church-court-records-online - a government guide to church court records].
 *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2390848 Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records, 1658-1919]