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The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
The General Assembly is the highest court and policy-making body of the Church of Scotland. First held in 1560, it meets annually in Edinburgh, where items of Assembly business are referred from synods, presbyteries, committees and individuals.Records available
Records not in Virtual Volumes
Several record sets (indexed by personal name and in other ways) allow searching or sorting results by place name, street name, parish, county, burgh or district. Read our guide on searching by place.
Search maps and plans.
Search statutory registers of birth, marriage, death, civil partnership, divorce and dissolution.
Search census returns.
Search church registers of baptisms, marriages and burials.
Search valuation rolls.
Search legal records, including wills and testaments.
Search Highland and Island Emigration Society records.
Search the image library.
Records on ScotlandsPlaces
On the ScotlandsPlaces website, National Records of Scotland makes available records arranged by county, parish, burgh and city, including:
- Ordnance Survey Name Books
- Seventeenth century hearth tax and poll tax rolls
- Land tax, servants' tax, window tax, horse tax, and other assessed tax rolls