Category Archives: Scotland

ScotlandsPeople’s new website to be revealed soon

Posted on August 23, 2024 by Gail Dever

On September 3, ScotlandsPeople will launch a new logo and “refreshed” website.  The redesigned site is expected to make records more accessible. According to ScotlandsPeople, searching their records will be simpler and quicker. From September 3, you’ll be able to … Continue reading →

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750,000 new death records for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on Findmypast

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Gail Dever

This week, Findmypast has updated three of its existing death record collections as part of its annual update of modern death records. Now covering 1980 to 2024, there are 751,279 death records from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to explore. … Continue reading →

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Findmypast adds 1.3 million Scottish records

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Gail Dever

This week, Findmypast added 1,312,523 new Scottish records to its collection. If your ancestor spent time in a mental health institution in years gone by, their name may appear in the new Mental Health Institution Admission Registers. You can also … Continue reading →

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Latest additions to Findmypast — Northern Ireland parish records, Scotland Poor Law, Canadian headstones

Posted on July 31, 2023 by Gail Dever

This past week, Findmypast added more than 1.8 million records from Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Canada to its website. Fermanagh Parish Records 15,629 new records have been added across four record sets, with three updated and one new. The 7,731 new baptisms … Continue reading →

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1921 census now available on ScotlandsPeople

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Gail Dever

Today, the 1921 Scotland census will be opened for the first time and made available on the ScotlandsPeople website and ScotlandsPeople Centres. There are 4.8 million individual records. These records provide a glimpse of what life was like for people in 1921 … Continue reading →

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Findmypast Friday — Scottish records

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Gail Dever

Thousands of new and exclusive records for Scotland have been added this Findmypast Friday  Scotland, Poor Law & Lists Findmypast has added 16,820 records into this collection, spanning the years 1816 to 1901. With records for Inverness, Wick, Dreghorn and Perthshire, … Continue reading →

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Update on release of 1921 Scotland Census

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Gail Dever

If you’re waiting to see the 1921 Scotland Census, you’re going to have to be patient. The team at ScotlandsPeople, where the census will be available online, said yesterday that the work is well advanced for the release. “We are … Continue reading →

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Early 19th-century Scottish assessment roll now available on Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives’ website

Posted on August 21, 2022 by Gail Dever

If some of your ancestors lived in Aberdeenshire, Scotland as my Youngs and Fyvies did, the recent addition of a 19th-century assessment roll for the town of Peterhead to Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives‘ website may interest you. The 30-page … Continue reading →

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Scottish Indexes shares tutorials on Kirk Session records

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Gail Dever

If you’re struggling with researching Kirk Session records, you may want to take a look at two free tutorials by Tessa Spencer, head of Outreach and Learning at the National Records of Scotland (NRS), that Scottish Indexes has made available … Continue reading →

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New birth, marriage and death entries on ScotlandsPeople

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Gail Dever

ScotlandsPeople issued a “New Records Alert” late yesterday. They’ve added birth entries from 1921, marriage entries from 1946, and deaths from 1971.

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