Record guides A-Z

This is the content guide to what records are on Scotland's People.

• Banns and marriage proclamations (see Church registers)
• Baptismal registers (see Church registers)
• Birth certificates and registers (see Statutory registers of births and Church registers)
• Burial registers (see Church registers)
• Census returns
• Church court records (records of kirk sessions, synods and presbyteries)
• Church registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and other events
• Coal Board statutory working plans
• Coats of arms
• Death certificates and registers (see Statutory registers of deaths and Church registers)
• Highland and Island Emigration Society records
• Employment records
• Image library
• Kirk session records
• Legal records
• Lightkeeper registers
• Marriage certificates and registers (see Statutory registers of marriages and Church registers)
• Maps and plans
• Military Service Appeals Tribunal records
• Old Parish Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials (see Church registers)
• Ordnance Survey Name Books
• Other Statutory registers
• Photographs (see image library)
• Prison registers
• Scottish Cabinet records
• Scottish Women's Land Army records
• Soldiers' and airmen’s wills
• Statutory registers of births, marriages and deaths
• Tax rolls
• Valuation rolls
• Wills and testaments