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- On the ScotlandsPeople website you can search indexes to registers of births, deaths and marriages; census returns; wills and testaments (including soldiers' wills), valuation rolls, prison registers, Highland and Island Emigration Society records and Coats of Arms; and download digital copies of the records.
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The majority of Scottish birth, death and marriage records are held in the custody of the Registrar General for Scotland at New Register House in Edinburgh. There are separate...
- Old Parish Registers
This guide provides details of the gaps in the records,...
- Statutory Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Seton, George, ' Practical analysis of the Acts relating to...
- Minor Records
The Minor Records are statutory registers of births, deaths...
- Register of Neglected Entries
The Register of Neglected Entries was set up following the...
- Genealogical Gems
Marriage is honourable in all things and the bed undefiled....
- Census Records
We hold records of the census of the population of Scotland...
- Research Guides A-Z
Irregular Border Marriage Registers. J. Justices of the...
- Deaths and Burials
The list was first published in the ‘Aberdeen and North East...
- Catholic Parish Registers
The text in this record guide has been provided by the...
- Irregular Border Marriage Registers
Marriage by declaration in front of two witnesses was legal...
- Old Parish Registers
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- Family History
- FamilySearch
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- Old Parish Registers Index
- Scottish Parish Records
- The Mckirdy Index
There are several useful resources in Scotland and online whichgive access to records of births, deaths, and marriages.
FamilySearchis a freesearchable database available on the web. It includes theInternational Genealogical Index (IGI), and offers access to manymillions of international records of births, marriages andbaptisms. It may also give you names of a person's siblings,parents and spouse. Much of the information relating to Scottish people wasoriginally tak...
If you are coming to Edinburgh to see Scottish birth, death andmarriage records then you should visit the National Records of Scotland, whichis the official source for these documents. For those unable tovisit in person, some of the records, covering the 16th to early20th centuries, are available (for a fee) on the Scotlandspeople website.National ...
The old parish (church) registers only cover members of theChurch of Scotland. They were lists made by the ministers of achurch congregation and the details of baptisms, marriages, deathsand burials that took place within it. Broadly defined, a parishwas the moral, educational and religious centre of Scottish dailylife, and was usually focused arou...
Scottish Parish Records is is a resource on CD-ROM which isavailable for use within the National Library of Scotland. Despiteits title, it includes records taken from a variety of sources,such as parish records, covering: 1. Scotland (General) 2. Scotland North 3. Scotland South 4. West Lothian, Midlothian. Many of the records are taken from publis...
The McKirdy Index is a microfiche resource available in theLibrary which alphabetically lists records from the Statutory DeathRegisters of Scotland. We hold the indexes for the followinglocations: 1. Bute 1855-1875 2. Lanark 1855-1856 3. Sutherland 1855-1875 4. Kinross 1855-1875 5. Clackmannan 1855-1875.
Access to the records. You can search the records in the following ways: On our ScotlandsPeople website. To protect the privacy of living people there are cut-offs of 100 years for images of...
Jan 7, 2024 · Use the information you have found to find the couple in later census records; Use the father's names to find the bride and groom as children in earlier census or birth records; Use the age to calculate a birth date and to find other records such as birth, christening, census, land and death records; Use the information to find additional ...
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- James Naismith
- Bothwell, Lanark, Scotland
- Mary Glen
Sep 3, 2024 · Online Genealogy Records. These are genealogy links to Scotland online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records. Some subscription websites listed below can ...
Jul 22, 2024 · Successfully finding marriage records in online databases depends on a few key points. Try the following search suggestions: Spelling variations. Your ancestor's name may be misspelled. Search with spelling variations for the first and last name of your ancestor.