Scotland History and Genealogy

Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a nation in northwest Europe and a constituent country of the United Kingdom. It occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain, shares a land border to the south with England and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest.

Archives, Libraries and Societies

• The National Archives of Scotland
  • Family History
• Scots Genealogy Society

Census

Church

• The Methodists Archives Biographical Index
• List of Old Parochial Registers
• Quaker Family Historical Society - Scotland

History

• Gallery
• Working Lives
• Hidden Lives
• Hearths and Homes
• The Clothes Chest

Immigration

• Mormon Immigration Index Lookup
• Ellis Island Passenger Lookup
• Movement of Scots to Ireland

Mailing Lists

• Scotland Mailing Lists

Vital Records

• UK BDM Exchange

Wills

• Scottish Wills Microsite

Websites

• GENUKI: Scotland
  • Aberdeenshire
  • Angus
  • Argyll
  • Ayrshire
  • Banffshire
  • Berwickshire
  • Bute (islands of Arran and Bute)
  • Caithness
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Dumfriesshire
  • Dunbartonshire
  • East Lothian
  • Fife
  • Forfarshire (see Angus)
  • Inverness-shire (includes Lewis (part), Uist & Skye)
  • Kincardineshire
  • Kinross-shire
  • Kirkcudbrightshire
  • Lanarkshire
  • Midlothian
  • Moray
  • Nairnshire
  • Orkney
  • Peeblesshire
  • Perthshire
  • Renfrewshire
  • Ross & Cromarty (includes part of Lewis)
  • Roxburghshire
  • Selkirkshire
  • Shetland
  • Stirlingshire
  • Sutherland
  • West Lothian
  • Wigtownshire

British Isles Genealogy

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