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2.8 million names and addresses for owners and occupiers of properties in Scotland added to the site

15/06/18

Discover Glasgow through Maps and Plans spanning 250 years on ScotlandsPeople

13/06/18

More than 2,400 maps, plans and drawings have been added to the ScotlandsPeople site

23/01/18

Explore Scotland as you search for your ancestors.

19/01/18

Newly-discovered letters shed light on Robert Burns’ family, Excise career and radical political opinions

10/01/18

Learn about the lives of Alberto Morrocco, Anna MacLeod and Hugh Malcolm - all born in 1917

10/01/18

Read about the weddings of three allied servicemen in Scotland in 1942

10/01/18

Discover the lives of the operatic soprano Mary Garden and Plant Hunter George Sherriff

10/01/18

More than 233,000 newly-released Scottish records of births in 1917, marriages in 1942 and deaths

18/12/17

Learn about how we are improving forename searching in church registers, census returns and other records.