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Statutory registers
Search the statutory (civil) registers of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland from 1855 to the present.
Church registers
Search church registers of births (or baptisms), marriages and burials in Scotland from 1553 onwards.
Census returns
Search the lists of people recorded in censuses taken every 10 years in Scotland from 1841 onwards.
Tax records
Search records of taxation in Scotland. Currently available are valuation rolls which list owners and occupiers of buildings and other property from 1855 onward.
Legal records
Search wills and testaments, coats of arms, soldiers' and airmen's wills and the records of military service appeals tribunals.
Poor relief and migration records
Search the records for the Highland and Island Emigration Society 1852-57, set up to relieve Highland destitution.
Prison registers
Search registers of people admitted to Scottish prisons to 1921. Registers for Barlinnie (Glasgow) Prison, Edinburgh Bridewell, Edinburgh (Calton) Prison, Largs Prison and Perth Prison are available.
Employment records
Search employment-related records of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses (Northern Lighthouse Board) and the Scottish Women’s Land Army.