scotland

 Scotland

[Web links checked 31/1/2015]  Clink on any Blue link

   Births Deaths Marriages

 

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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/

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  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/

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Births to 1904, Marriages 1929, deaths 1954 http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

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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.

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McKirdy Index of Scottish Death Records 1855-1875 : Enquiries for McKirdy index should be directed to [email protected]

 

    Cemeteries

 

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Find a Grave http://www.findagraveinscotland.com/

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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

 

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Scotland Census at www.ancestry.com

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FreeCensuses - free online census for England, Scotland & Wales, incomplete www.freecen.org.uk

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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

bullet 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

 

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  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

 

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 All-Scotland Military

 

    Mining in Scotland

 

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Searchable Scottish Mining website www.scottishmining.co.uk/ the site covers all aspects of a miming background from A-Z

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Scottish Mining Villages http://mining-villages.co.uk/

 

    Ministers (Scottish)

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Scottish Ministers Index http://www.dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/MinistersIndex.htm

    Newspapers

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The Scotsman1817-1950: Digital archives every edition online http://archive.scotsman.com/

 

    Scottish Immigration

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Scottish Immigration www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/

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Scotland-Tasmania Immigrants shipping lists http://sites.rootsweb.com/~austas/immigrants.htm

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Some Passenger Lists All-Scotland Passenger Lists

 

Please inform me of any links which do not work or if you recommend a good site for inclusion in this listing.

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