Saturday, November 21, 2009

Scotland Genealogy Resources and Information

  • ScotlandsPeople. Searches are free and then you pay a fee to acquire a document. This service is a partnership between the General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland, et al and is the official online source of parish register, civil registration, and other records for Scotland.
  • "Old Parochial Register" index and document information are at ScotlandsPeople and the IGI
  • FreeREG project.
  • The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) holds records for the Free Church, and various other dissenting ('seceding') congregations. Most records of the Roman Catholic Church are held by the Scottish Catholic Archive and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow Archive. If NAS dos not hold the records that interest you, check out the denominational and local archives.
    ScotlandsPeople now has available Catholic Parish Registers 1703-1955. This also suggests that more may follow.

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