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The links below might help you find support for your enquiries.

General Register Office for Scotland
This is the principle records office for the country and oversees all information about Scotland's people. They have online access to records about Scotland's people.

For researchers who wish to access physical sources they provide access via New Register House and Ladywell House (listed and described on their site).

Other record offices:

General Purpose
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Argyll
Ayrshire
Banffshire
Berwickshire
Bute
Caithness
Clackmannanshire
Dumfries
Dunbartonshire
East Lothian
Fife
Inverness-shire
Kincardine
Kinross

Kirkcudbright
Lanarkshire
Midlothian
Moray
Nairn
Orkney
Peebles
Perthshire
Renfrewshire
Ross and Cromarty
Roxburghshire
Selkirkshire
Shetland
Stirling
Sutherland
West Lothian
Wigtown

General Purpose

The Federation of Family History Societies have useful information on how to use resources, including an online brochure.

The Historical Manuscripts Commission have useful information on Family History and how to use Archival Sources

The Scottish Archive Network have links to archives around Scotland as well as searchable indexes of orginal records, and useful resources on Scottish history.

Further information about Archives in Scotland can be had from ARCHON.

FAMILIA has an index of libraries with genealogical materials in Scotland.

SLAINTE has a list of libraries in Scotland.

The Scottish Office provide a useful MAP to help understanding of local government boundry changes and their effects on the location of records in Scotland.

GENUKI has a County Map of Scotland that can be used to locate the traditional county or area in which you are interested.

Familia list a huge number of family history resources in Britain and Ireland, maps, guides, and much more - not to be missed !