Scottish resources
Scottish civil registration (birth, marriage and death certificates) began 1855, before that see Old Parish Records(OPR) for baptisms, marriages and (a small number of) burials, some back to 16th century.
Essential Scottish sources
- Scotland's People – http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (BMD, parish registers, 1841-1901 censuses, will index- costs)
- GENUKI Scotland – http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ (contains info & is also a gateway - info about all Scotland as well as individual counties)
- Lewis Topographical Dictionary – http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=308 (1846 - detailed "topographical accounts of places")
- Libraries Scotland – http://www.scotlandinter.net/libraries.html
- National Archives of Scotland – http://www.nas.gov.uk/ (government, church, courts, land records & more)
- National Library of Scotland Digital Library – http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html (books, documents, photos - much yet to be digitised)
- National Library of Scotland maps 1560-1928 – http://www.nls.uk/maps/scotland/index.html
See also http://geo.nls.uk/ - Scotland's History – http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/scotlandshistory/
- Scottish Archives Network (SCAN) – http://www.scan.org.uk ("internet access to the written history of Scotland", includes knowledge base FAQ)
- Scottish Gazetteer – http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/scotland.html (geographical encyclopaedia, historical & modern, also photos & links)
- Scottish Origins – http://www.origins.net/SOWelcome.aspx (includes IGI baptisms & marriages, plus family history articles)
Other "All Scotland" sources
- Ancestral Scotland – http://www.ancestralscotland.com/ (Genealogy website of the Scottish Tourist Board)
- Births, Deaths & Marriages Exchange Scotland – http://www.sctbdm.com/index.php
- British History Online, Scottish Documents – http://www.british-history.ac.uk/place.aspx?region=7 (historic documents, maps, burgh records)
- Clan Mackenzie Society – http://www.clan-mackenzie.org.uk/
- Dictionary of the Scots Language – http://www.dsl.ac.uk/ (words used 12th century to 1970s)
- Deceased Online – https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
- Discover My Past Scotland – http://scotland.discovermypast.co.uk/issue (electronic magazine, by subscription)
- Edinburgh Gazette – http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/ (government newspaper from 1699, complete since 1793)
- Electric Scotland – http://www.electricscotland.com/ (clans, tartans, history, pictures, online books)
- FamilyRelatives.com – http://www.familyrelatives.com/ (trade directories, land owers, costs)
- Happy Haggis – http://www.happyhaggis.co.uk/counties.htm (by region, links to databases & history & family history info)
- Heraldry Society of Scotland – http://www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk/
- Poor Law records – http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/poor.asp
- Rampant Scotland – http://www.rampantscotland.com/ (links to "all things Scottish", also photos & feature articles )
- Scotland BDM Exchange – http://www.sctbdm.com/index.php
- Scotland Genealogy Links – http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/scotland/
- Scotland GenWeb – http://www.scotlandgenweb.org/news.php (gateway to information & links by county)
- Scotland Mailing Lists – http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-unk-sct.html
- Scotland's Family – http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/deaths.htm (deaths, burial records & monumental inscriptions)
- Scotsfind (Genealogy Databases) – http://www.scotsfind.org/ (especially for Edinburgh & also surnames)
- Scottish Collections Network – http://scone.strath.ac.uk/Service/Index.cfm (links to Scottish collections including digital)
- Scottish Cultural Resources Network (SCRAN) – http://www.scran.ac.uk/ (digitised images & media from museums, archive & media)
- Scottish Genealogy Society – http://www.scotsgenealogy.com (includes online information articles)
- Scottish Glossary (SCAN) – http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/glossary.htm (Scottish words found in documents)
- Scottish Place-Name Society – http://www.spns.org.uk/ (articles about places, also list of parishes in Scotland)
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1845 – http://edina.ac.uk/statacc/ (historical descriptions of places, can be browsed for free)
- Talking Scot – http://www.talkingscot.com (discussion group and information)
- The Scotsman Digital Archive 1817-1950 – http://archive.scotsman.com/ (newspaper, free to search, costs to see articles)
- Tracing Scottish ancestors at Kew – http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/tracing-scottish-ancestors.mp3 (large audio file)
Regional websites
- Aberdeen & North East Scotland Family History Society – http://anesfhs.org.uk/
- Alloway & Southern Ayrshire Family History Society – http://www.asafhs.co.uk
- Am Baile (Highland History & Culture) – http://www.ambaile.org.uk/
- Ancestral Orkney – http://www.ancestralorkney.com/
- Angus Scotland GenWeb – http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sctans/
- Argyllshire Scotland GenWeb – http://www.scotlandroyalty.org/argyll/argyllshire.html
- Ayrshire Roots – http://www.ayrshireroots.com
- Borders Family History Society – http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/ (for border counties of Scotland and England)
- Caithness Family History Society – http://www.caithnessfhs.org.uk/
- (Caithness) Badbea Clearance Village – http://www.badbeafamilies.com/
- Central Scotland Family History Society – http://www.csfhs.org.uk/
- Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society – http://www.dgfhs.org.uk/
- East Ayrshire Family History Society – http://www.eastayrshirefhs.org.uk/
- Family History Society of Buchan – http://www.fhsb.org.uk/
- Fife Family History Society – http://www.fifefhs.org/
- Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society – http://www.gwsfhs.org.uk/
- Gretna Green marriages – http://www.achievements.co.uk/services/gretna/index.php (free to search, details cost)
- Highland Family History Society – http://www.highlandfhs.org.uk/
- Inveraray Jail – http://www.inverarayjail.co.uk/ (includes database of prisoners & also of transported prisoners)
- Inverness-shire Scotland GenWeb – http://www.jansdigs.com/Inverness/index.html
- Kildrummy Families – http://www.kildrummyfamilies.org/ (in Aberdeenshire)
- Lanarkshire Family History Society – http://www.lanarkshirefhs.org.uk/
- Largs & North Ayrshire Family History Society – http://www.largsnafhs.org.uk/home.htm
- Lothians Family History Society – http://www.lothiansfhs.org/index.php
- Moray Burial Ground Research Group – http://www.mbgrg.org/
- Moray Local Heritage – http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp
- North Pershire Family History Group – http://www.npfhg.org/
- Orkney Family History Society – http://www.orkneyfhs.co.uk/ (Sib folk)
- Raasay Heritage Trust – http://www.angelfire.com/il2/raasayheritagetrust/genealogy.html (Isle of Raasay, Ross-shire)
- Renfrewshire Family History Society – http://www.renfrewshirefhs.co.uk/
- Shetland Family History Society – http://www.shetland-fhs.org.uk/
- Skye Roots – http://www.skye-roots.co.uk/ (Isles of Skye and Raasay)
- Three Towners – http://www.threetowners.com (Ardrossan, Stevenston & Saltcoats in Ayrshire)
- West Lothian Family History Society – http://www.wlfhs.org.uk/
- Wigtownshire Pages – http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leighann/index.html