A
partnership between the General Register Office of Scotland, the
National Archives of Scotland, The Court of the Lord Lyon and brightsolid
(formerly Scotland Online), ScotlandsPeople is the official
online source of parish register, civil registration, census and
wills & testaments records for Scotland.
Containing over 50 million records, the ScotlandsPeople
database is one of the world’s largest resources of genealogical
information and on of the largest single information resources on
the Web. We provide a fully searchable index of Scottish births from
1553 to 2006, marriages from 1553 to 1933 and deaths from 1855 to
2006. In addition, indexed census data is available from 1841 to
1901 as well as Scottish Wills & Testaments from 1513 to 1901
and Coats of Arms records from 1672 to 1907. To respect privacy of
living people, internet access has been limited to birth records
over 100 years old, marriage records over 75 years, and death
records over 50 years.
From
the results of an index search made on this site you
may view, save and print images of many of the original documents,
and order extracts of any register entries of interest. S
u
ch requests are forwarded automatically to New Register Ho
u
se, and the requested extracts are mailed to you (airmail in case of
overseas orders).
(This information has been typed directly from the
ScotlandsPeople website.)
NOTE: The system of payment for the described services is by
the online purchase of “credits”,
u
sing a regular credit card, and is a very simple process.