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  • Statutory registersSearch the statutory (civil) registers of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland from 1855 to the present.
  • Church registersSearch church registers of births (or baptisms), marriages and burials in Scotland from 1553 onwards.
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  • Valuation rollsSearch lists of owners and occupiers of buildings and other properties in Scotland from 1855 onwards.
  • Legal recordsSearch wills and testaments, coats of arms, soldiers' and airmen's wills and the records of military service appeals tribunals.
  • Poor relief and migration recordsSearch the records for the emigration society, set up to relieve Highland destitution 1852-57
  • Prison registersSearch registers of people admitted to Scottish prisons to 1921. Currently, registers for Perth Prison are available.
  • Kirk sessionsKirk session and other church court records can be found in Virtual Volumes.

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