Your Guide to Researching Your Scottish Ancestors

Census:

Civil Registration: 1855

Parish Registers: Earliest is 1553

 
Books, articles, tapes, CD's etc.
On the Web...

A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors – How to find and record your unique heritage . ( review.)

Cory. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry. 3rd. ed. (find in a library)

Holton. Discover Your Scottish Ancestry: Internet and Traditional Resources (find in a library)

Irvine. Scottish Ancestry: Research Methods For Family Historians (find in a library)

James. Scottish Roots: A Step by Step Guide (find in a library)

Moody. Scottish Family History (find in a library)

Sinclair. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestry Research in the Scottish Record Office (find in a library)

Start with Scotland's People: Connecting Generations. You must register to perform searches. Here you can search census, vital and probate records.

Scotland GenWeb (scroll down to find the links to the county sites.)  

Scottish Genealogy Society
(they publish The Scottish Genealogist as well as maintain a library --in Edinborough, of course-- and sell publications helpful for researching in Scotland.  See also their links to member websites)

GEN-UKI page for Scotland

Dept. of Geography, University of Edinborough has a very helpful page " Tracing your Scottish Ancestry ".

Scottish Archive Network is a major resource online.

" Rampant Scotland -- For Everything About Scotland" has a  genealogy page as well as a wealth of other information about the country.

Map: Clans of Scotland

Dictionary of the Scots Language

Cyndi's List: Scotland

This page last updated July 31, 2007
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