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This is the BBC
"Scottish Roots"
website & is an ideal starting point for researching your
family history |
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Yester/Gifford section of the
ever excellent
GENUKI |
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The Scottish
Genealogy Society |
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The Borders Family History
Society |
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Scotland's Hall of Fame
from the
General Register Office |
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Explore your Family Tree
Compulsory registration
of all Births, Deaths & Marriages
in Scotland
was introduced in 1855
and these records
are held by the
General Register Office for
Scotland
in
Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh.
The General Register Office also
hold parish registers
preceding 1855.
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Explore the popular BBC Family History pages
Find out more
here.
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The
Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
have a massive database
of genealogical records.
A visit to
these sites should be high on your list of priorities
but
the majority of
links on this page are
dedicated genealogy sites,
most with a distinctly Scottish
bias where possible.
Help pages for
those beginning family research are usually included
and much fruitless
searching can be avoided by following
the advice which is offered.
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Roots Chat is an easy to use messaging forum for everyone
researching their family history or local history.
The focus is on the British Isles & Ireland.
Local Historians and Family Historians have a great deal
of
knowledge to share.
This service is entirely free, with the hope that you and the
historian and
genealogy community as a whole
will benefit from it.
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A wide-ranging collection of books,
journal articles, documents
and ephemera on people,
places and events in
East Lothian
can
be found at
East Lothian Heritage.
Most general topics are covered on a
county basis, but also
on a
more specific level, such as parish, town or
village.
Material includes Statistical Accounts...one for each parish in
the 1790s, 1830s
and 1950s
and one county volume published in 2003, with
parish
volumes in preparation.
Town guides and tourist guides from the mid-nineteenth century,
scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings,
county
development plans
(post World War II)
and census data.
Unpublished in-house subject index available for books, documents,
articles and
photographs in the collection.
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Scotland's
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