Scotland
[Web links checked 31/1/2015] Clink on any Blue link
Births Deaths Marriages
FreeReg - ree Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K. FreeREG is a companion project to FreeBMD (a database of the GRO birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837) and FreeCEN (a database of census information). http://www.freereg.org.uk/ | |
Scotlands People - the official government source of genealogical data from Scotland, includes births, deaths and marriages, old parish registers, census records and wills and testaments. Fees apply. http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ | |
Births to 1904, Marriages 1929, deaths 1954 http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ | |
Scotland Births Deaths Marriages Exchange. http://www.sctbdm.com/index.php For anyone researching their family history in Scotland, the aim of the Births Deaths and Marriages Exchange is to provide a free resource for sharing information about ancestors found in Scotland. | |
McKirdy Index of Scottish Death Records 1855-1875 : Enquiries for McKirdy index should be directed to [email protected] |
Cemeteries
Find a Grave http://www.findagraveinscotland.com/ | |
Headstone photos: Lorraine can locate your scottish gravestone, take a photo of it and a translation of the inscription and email this to you for a minimal fee (depending on distance to cemetery). Please contact me at [email protected] |
Census's
Scotland Census at www.ancestry.com | |
FreeCensuses - free online census for England, Scotland & Wales, incomplete www.freecen.org.uk | |
Scotland Censuses http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=554&611 |
Counties of Scotland also some General Genealogy Links : click on county names in blue
Aberdeenshire | Angus | Argyll | Ayrshire | Banffshire | Berwickshire | Bute | Caithness | Clackmannanshire | Dumfries-shire | Dunbartonshire | East Lothian | Fife | Inverness-shire | Kincardineshire | Kinross-shire | Kirkcudbrightshire | Lanarkshire | Midlothian | Moray | Nairnshire | Orkney | Peeblesshire | Perthshire | Renfrewshire | Ross & Cromarty | Roxburghshire | Selkirkshire | Shetland | Stirlingshire | Sutherland | West Lothian | Wigtownshire |
Libraries / Archives
National Library of Scotland: Scotland's only legal deposit library, main catalogue of over 3 million records plus Scots abroad database www.nls.uk |
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The Scottish Archive Network: A single electronic catalogue to more than 20,000 collections of historical records held by 52 Scottish archives www.scan.org.uk |
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National Archives of Scotland: Number of searchable sources (ongoing) of records created by Scottish government, as well as private records created by businesses, landed estates, families, courts, churches and other corporate bodies; also see ScotlandsPeople website. www.nas.gov.uk/ |
Military
Mining in Scotland
Searchable Scottish Mining website www.scottishmining.co.uk/ the site covers all aspects of a miming background from A-Z | |
Scottish Mining Villages http://mining-villages.co.uk/ |
Ministers (Scottish)
Scottish Ministers Index http://www.dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/MinistersIndex.htm |
Newspapers
The Scotsman1817-1950: Digital archives every edition online http://archive.scotsman.com/ |
Scottish Immigration
Scottish Immigration www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/ | |
Scotland-Tasmania Immigrants shipping lists http://sites.rootsweb.com/~austas/immigrants.htm | |
Some Passenger Lists All-Scotland Passenger Lists |
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