Category Archives: Scotland

Scottish register of prisoners’ photos to be digitized

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Gail Dever

Aberdeen City and Aberdeen Archives has almost completed the process of restoring a unique volume containing nearly a thousand photographs of prisoners incarcerated at HM General Prison in Perth. The register, which is part of the Aberdeen City Police collection, … Continue reading →

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Ancestry unable to secure rights to millions of Scottish records

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Gail Dever

Disappointing news in an article in the Irish Independent for those of us with an Ancestry subscription and Scottish ancestors. According to the Dublin daily newspaper, the Irish arm of Ancestry has been unable to force the National Records of … Continue reading →

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Scottish heritage and DNA tests contribute to Scotland’s tourism boom

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Gail Dever

Scotland welcomed a record two million international visitors in the first six months of last year, outpacing other UK destinations.  Mark Turner, co-owner of Solway Tours, told the Daily Mail that they are already fully booked for 2025 and 2026, … Continue reading →

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Findmypast adds cemetery records from New Zealand and Scotland

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Gail Dever

This past week, Findmypast added 207,233 cemetery records from across New Zealand and 27,070 Scottish monumental inscriptions. The New Zealand records are from cemeteries in nine New Zealand districts, including Tasman, Christchurch and Clutha. The Scottish records are from two … Continue reading →

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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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