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• Ross & Cromarty (10)
• Aberdeenshire (20)
• How to Research, Tips, Tricks, Introduction to Archives and Record Groups (3)
• Angus (Forfarshire until 1928) (72)
• County of Argyll (14)
• Ayrshire (68)
• Banffshire (9)
• Berwickshire (7)
• County of Bute (5)
• Caithness (6)
• Clackmannanshire (13)
• Dumfriesshire (31)
• Dunbartonshire (9)
• East Lothian (Haddingtonshire until 1921) (5)
• County of Fife (222)
• Inverness-shire (11)
• Kincardineshire (12)
• Kinross-shire (15)
• Kirkcudbrightshire (21)
• Lanarkshire (135)
• Midlothian (County of Edinburgh until 1921) (8)
• County of Moray (14)
• Nairnshire (5)
• Orkney (5)
• Peebleshire (5)
• Perthshire (11)
• Renfrewshire (5)
• Roxburghshire (8)
• Selkirkshire (6)
• Shetland (9)
• Stirlingshire (7)
• Sutherland (5)
• West Lothian (Linlithgowshire until 1921) (6)
• Wigtownshire (18)
• Wiltshire (2)
• Adoption Records
  
  • Adoption and Adoption Records in Scotland      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Birthlink links willing adopted people and their willing birth parents, or other birth relatives 
  • NAS Guide to Researching Adoption Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
• Ancient & Historical Monuments
  
  • Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland  Searchable database     (Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
• Archives (36)
• Baptism Records
  
  • Illegitimacy: Recording of illegitimate births and baptisms  In the OPRs, Statutory Registers; Location of an illegitimate birth or baptism; listing in the Census     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Old Parish Register (OPR) Births & Baptisms 1538-1854      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • OPRs: Birth/Baptism Records 1553-1854      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
• Bibliography
  
  • Further Reading about the Records      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • Gibson Guides: Location Guides for Family and Local Historians      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Scottish Bibliographies Online      (Source: National Library of Scotland)
  • Scottish Books 1505-1660  Books printed in Scotland, or outside Scotland for the Scottish market, before 1641     (Source: National Library of Scotland)
  • Bibliography
    
    • Hints & Tips - Books to help      (Source: KinHelp)
• Birth Records
  
  • Birth Registration, and Illegitimacy      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • Illegitimacy: Recording of illegitimate births and baptisms  In the OPRs, Statutory Registers; Location of an illegitimate birth or baptism; listing in the Census     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Old Parish Register (OPR) Births & Baptisms 1538-1854      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • OPRs: Birth/Baptism Records 1553-1854      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Scottish Births 1855-2006  All civil register births     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
• Bookstores and Publishers
  
  • Phillimore, publisher and bookseller of British local and family history 
• British Empire Colonial Records and History (1)
• Burial Records
  
  • Old Parish Register (OPR) Deaths & Burials 1538-1854  Very Sparse Coverage since there was no requirement to record these     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • OPRs: Death/Burial Records 1553-1854      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
• Cemeteries
  
  • Historic Scotland Guide - Researching your Graveyard: Conservation, repair and maintenance      (Source: Historic Scotland)
  • SCOTLAND-CEMETERIES mailing list for anyone searching for their ancestors in cemeteries in Scotland or interested in preserving historical information about these cemeteries      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Census (14)
• Chronologies, Timelines, Calendars
  
  • OPRs: Dates in Old Parish Registers      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
• Church History
  
  • The Church of Scotland 
  • Church of Scotland History 
  • Diary of a Church Elder 1853-4  Elder of Hutchesontown United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow
  • Petitions to the Pope 1342-1419: Covers petitions to the Pope from the accession of Clement VI until the 16th pontifical year of Antipope Benedict XIII  The latter entries to this volume deal largely with Scottish petitions, since the Scots adhered to the Avignon papacy     (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
  • Scotland, Church of; Records of the General Assembly. 2 volumes      (Source: Institute of Historical Research)
  • The Scottish Church 1560-1929 
  • Short History of the United Free Church of Scotland 
  • The United Free Church of Scotland 
• Church Records
  
  • Baptism, marriage, and burial records, transcribed from UK parish and non-conformist registers      (Source: FreeReg, part of the FreeUKGen Project)
  • The Church and the Truth? An example of the difference between what is perceived as the truth, and what it actually turns out to be      (Source: KinHelp)
  • Published sources for Scottish clergymen described and assessed      (Source: KinHelp)
  • UK and Ireland Church Records      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
• Civil Registration, Registration Offices
  
  • About Registration in Scotland      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Accessing and Using GROS Records      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • More History of the Debates and Issues Behind the Records      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • Old Parish Registers, and Fight for Registration      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • Opening of the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS)      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • War and National Registration      (Source: University of Glasgow)
• Clan Organizations, Mail Lists and Message Boards (191)
• Court Records (17)
• Death Records
  
  • De Ruvigny's Roll 1914-1918  biographical details of many of those who fell     (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • Difficulties in Death Registration      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • Old Parish Register (OPR) Deaths & Burials 1538-1854  Very Sparse Coverage since there was no requirement to record these     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • OPRs: Causes of Death (PDF file)  Words used to describe medical conditions in the 18th and 19th centuries     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • OPRs: Death/Burial Records 1553-1854      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Scottish Deaths 1855-2006  All deaths in the statutory registers including corrected entries and minor returns     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Deeds; Bonds, Contracts, Tacks, some Wills, Codicils, Factories, Protests and Deeds of Submission
  
  • NAS Guide to Researching Deeds      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Sasines      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
• Description & Travel (25)
• Divorce Records
  
  • NAS Guide to Researching Divorce Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • Stigma of Divorce      (Source: University of Glasgow)
• DNA Projects
  
  • British Isles DNA Project is open to persons whose family history or surname indicates a paternal or maternal lineage originating in the British Isles  Both yDNA and mtDNA
  • British Quakers DNA Project: your DIRECT paternal or DIRECT maternal ancestor must have been a QUAKER of British descent to be eligible to join  Both yDNA and mtDNA     (Source: Family Tree DNA)
  • SCOT-DNA mailing list for support of the Scot DNA Project, including genetics and genealogy, history relative to the location and migration of the Scots worldwide, methodology, comparisons, results and analysis      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • The Scotland DNA Project welcomes all with direct Scottish ancestral heritage  Both yDNA and mtDNA
  • Scottish Clans DNA Project - for all Scottish descendents  Both yDNA and mtDNA
  • Using DNA to find the historical and genetic origins of the Elliotts (Elliots) and other Anglo-Scottish families known collectively as the Border Reivers  yDNA only     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Emigration and Immigration (13)
• Gazetteers
  
  • Gazetteer of Scotland 
  • Gazetteer, or find the place name for old maps 
  • The GENUKI Gazetteer covers the whole of England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • Search the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, 1791-1835 for places.  Ignore logging in and go to the bottom option, Browse Scanned Pages. If you want to use the clickable map, you will have to create an account (free) and login
• Genealogy (41)
• Geographical Names
  
  • Counties before and after 1974, presented by the UK National Inventory of War Memorials 
  • Gazetteer, or find the place name for old maps 
  • NAS Guide to Researching Burgh Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • Search the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, 1791-1835 for places.  Ignore logging in and go to the bottom option, Browse Scanned Pages. If you want to use the clickable map, you will have to create an account (free) and login
• Heraldry, Coats of Arms, and Bearings
  
  • Coats of Arms 1672-1909  The Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland 1672-1909     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Coats of Arms 1672-1909: Terminology  Heraldry uses a specific language which allows for a clear verbal description used to interpret into a pictorial version     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Coats of Arms: The Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland 1672-1907  The Index is free, but it costs to see the images     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • Court of the Lord Lyon 
  • Usage of Coats of Arms  Coats of Arms in Scotland can only belong to one person at a time     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
• Historical Region (23)
• History (31)
• Hospital, Doctor & other Medical Records
  
  • Archives
    
    • Lothian Health Services Archives 
• Land & Property
  
  • Genealogical Index to "Statistics of the Annexed Estates, 1755-1756", from the records of the Forfeited Estates preserved in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland]; Edinburgh, HMSO, 1973      (Source: KinHelp)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Buildings      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Inheriting Land and Buildings      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • Research Tools: Property Records      (Source: Scottish Archives Network (SCAN))
  • Who Owns Scotland  Analyses and Overviews of landownership in Scotland
• Language, Languages, Writing
  
  • Dictionary of the Scottish Language, online Scots dictionary 
  • Help learning Gaelic      (Source: Am Baile Highland History and Culture)
  • Online tuition in palaeography for historians, genealogists and other researchers who have problems reading manuscript historical records written in Scotland in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries 
  • Scottish Language Dictionaries, information on the production of Scots dictionaries 
• Law & Legislation, Regulation, Governmental Records
  
  • NAS Guide to Researching Index of Legal terms and Offences Libelled      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Justice of the Peace Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Privy Council Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Privy Seal Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Scottish Government Records after 1707      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Scottish Parliament Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • The Stair Society  To encourage the study and advance the knowledge of Scots Law by the publication of original documents
• Libraries (11)
• Mail Lists, Message Boards & Internet Groups
  
  • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sources on the Internet - Scotland 
  • GENUKI Scotland HomePage 
  • Scotland's World Community, for all who love Scotland 
  • Scottish genealogy, history and culture; forum, gallery, Family History Societies, sources of genealogy data 
  • Search all the Scotland Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Western Isles of Scotland Message Board  Outer Hebrides comprise the 'long island' of Lewis and Harris and islands to the south including North Uist, South Uist and Barra. Gaelic-speaking; main towns and ferry ports are Stornoway, Tarbert, Leverburgh, Lochmaddy, Lochboisdale and Castlebay     (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Manor and other Large Estate Records
  
  • NAS Guide to Researching Estate Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
• Maps (17)
• Marriage Records
  
  • Irregular Border and Scottish Runaway Marriages (68k PDF)      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Marriage - Law, Gretna Green, and the Registrars      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • Old Parish Register (OPR) Banns & Marriages 1538-1854  Parish registers may record the date(s) of the proclamation of banns or the marriage date itself or both, but only one or the other will appear in the index     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • OPRs: Marriage/Banns Records 1553-1854      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Scottish Marriages 1855-1933  All statutory marriages until 1933, including corrected entries, foreign and service returns     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
• Military Records
  
  • British Military Records      (Source: GenUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy)
  • De Ruvigny's Roll 1914-1918  biographical details of many of those who fell in the service of their country     (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Military Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • Overview of the Military of the United Kingdom      (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Research Tools: Military Records  Including 1797-1802 Lieutenancy Book, County of Roxburgh; c.1680 Scottish army establishment, 1650 Battle of Dunbar     (Source: Scottish Archives Network (SCAN))
  • Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919      (Source: FindMyPast.com)     ($)
• Monumental Inscriptions
  
  • SCT-TOMBSTONE-INSCRIPTIONS mailing list for the posting of tombstone inscriptions and requests for lookups for Scotland gravesites      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Newspapers (14)
• Obituaries
  
  • SCOTLAND-OBITS mailing list for individuals and volunteers to submit or request obituary information for Scotland      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Occupations and Trades (14)
• Parish Records
  
  • Alphabetical list of coterminous (or adjacent) parishes in Scotland      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • History of Old Parish Registers      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • List of parishes in each county in Scotland      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • OPRs: List of the Old Parish Registers      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • OPRs: Quality of Information      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
• Personal Names (10)
• Photographs & Drawings of People, Places and Objects
  
  • Digital Collection  Databases, GIS Data, CAD Drawings, Digital Images, Text Documents, Geophysics Data, Spreadsheets, Web Pages, Laser Scan Data, 3D Modelling     (Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
  • Drawings Collection  From the 17th century to the present day, drawings by artists, draughtsman, architects and archaeologists     (Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
  • The National Collection of Aerial Photography      (Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
  • Old Scottish Borders Photo Archive - Hawick, Jedburgh, Galashiels, Moffat and Berwick Upon Tweed 
  • Photographic Collections  Some of the earliest photographs ever taken of Scotland, and up to the present     (Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
• Schools & School Records
  
  • NAS Guide to Researching Education Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
• Social Life and Customs
  
  • CELTS mailing list, for genealogy, history, culture and religion of the Celts      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Scottish Weights and Measures      (Source: Scottish Archives Network (SCAN))
  • SCT-GAELIC genealogy mail list, for discussing Scottish Gaelic place names, surnames and general knowledge      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • SCT-GAELIC mailing list for Scottish Gaelic place names, surnames and general knowledge      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
• Societies
  
  • Association of Scottish Genealogists and Researchers in Archives 
  • British Isles Family History Society - USA      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • SCOTLAND-GENWEB mailing list for anyone with a historical or genealogical interest in Scotland and its people      (Source: Rootsweb.com)
  • Scottish Genealogy Society 
  • The Scottish Genealogy Society 
• Statistics
  
  • Health and Disease Statistics      (Source: University of Glasgow)
  • Modern Scots Statistics      (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
• Taxation; Tax Records, Customs, Excise
  
  • NAS Guide to Researching Customs and Excise Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Exchequer Records      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Taxation      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Valuation rolls      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • Research Tools: Tax Records  Includes 1649 Valuation Roll, 1694 Hearth Tax, 1724-1725 Cess Book (land tax) for the County of Lanarkshire, and 1777 Servant Tax     (Source: Scottish Archives Network (SCAN))
• Vital Records (Births, Marriages, Deaths)
  
  • General Register Office for Scotland  Registration of births, marriages, civil partnerships, deaths, divorces, and adoptions, the Census and Census statistics. Main source of family history records.     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • It's a cert! Birth, marriage & death certificates; the meaning of information recorded there, particularly on older certificates      (Source: KinHelp)
  • Records appearing on the second edition of the British Isles Vital Record Index from the LDS 
  • Register of Neglected Entries 1801-1854  Records births, deaths and marriages proved to have occurred in Scotland between 31 December 1800 and 1 January 1855 but which had not been entered in the OPRs     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Scotland BDM Exchange - Births Deaths and Marriages Exchange, a free resource for Scotland genealogy and Scottish family history 
  • ScotlandsPeople  Official site of General Register Office (GRO)     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
• Wills, Probate, Testate and Intestate Records
  
  • All Scottish probate records 1513-1901 are indexed and images are available online via Scotland's People  The Index is free, but it costs to see the images     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)     ($)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Soldiers' and Airmen's Wills      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • NAS Guide to Researching Wills and Testaments      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • Recent Indexes to English and Scottish Probate Records 
  • Testament Dative  Testament: term used to describe all the documents relating to a dead person's estate; all include an inventory of the dead person's property - Dative if there is no will     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
  • Testament Testamentar  Will and Testament (includes inventory or valuation)     (Source: General Register Office for Scotland)
• Workhouses, Poorhouses, Poor Law & Records
  
  • NAS Guide to Researching Records of the Poor      (Source: National Archives of Scotland)
  • Research Tools: Poor Relief Records      (Source: Scottish Archives Network (SCAN))

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