Scottish Genealogy enthusiasts have a helping hand with the website designed by the editor of ScotsFind - Scottish Genealogy Databases. This website does not have images of the documents that have been transcribed, but they do tell you from where the information that has been transcribed on this website. The information provided has been transcribed and placed in a PDF format which requires you to have Adobe Reader which is free to obtain by clicking here to download the most recent version of Adobe Reader.
Below is a list from the website that tells you what you can find in the databases:
Canongate Marriage Register
Canongate Burials, 1820-1851
Local Records of Dysart
Edinburgh Register of Testaments
Glossary
Hamilton & Campsie Register of Testaments
Inverness Register of Testaments
Edinburgh Marriage Register 1701 - 1750
Edinburgh Marriage Register 1595 - 1700, 1751 - 1800
Greyfriars Interments, Edinburgh
Origin of the Scottish Language
Presbytrie Booke of Kircaldie
Edinburgh Processes & Decreets
Edinburgh Register of Apprentices
Edinburgh Roll of Burgesses
South Leith Records
Scottish Surname Variants
St. Cuthbert's Monument Inscriptions
The Guildry of Edinburgh
Clan Tartans
Surname-specific Databases:
Biggar Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Biggar Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted By Family
Biggar Genealogy - Marriages
Bird Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Bird Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Bird Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Bird Genealogy - Marriages
Cossar Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Cossar Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Cossar Genealgy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Cossar Genealogy - Marriages
Doig Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Doig Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Doig Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Doig Genealogy - Marriages
Dryburgh Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Dryburgh Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Dryburgh Genealogy - Birth & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Dryburgh Genealogy - Marriages
Edmondston Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Edmondston Genealogy - Birth & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Edmondston Genealogy - Marriages
Fiddler Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Fiddler Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Fiddler Genealogy - Marriages
Inch Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Inch Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Inch Genealogy - Marriages
Inche Marriages sorted by Spouse's Surname
James Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
James Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
James Genealogy - Marriages
Jarvie, Garvie Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Jarvie, Garvie Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Jarvie, Garvie Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Jarvie, Garvie Genealogy - Marriages
Kinloch Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Kinloch Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Kinloch Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Kinloch Genealogy - Marriages
Kinloch Marriages by Spouse
Lumsdale Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Lumsdale Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Lumsdale Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Lumsdale Genealogy - Marriages
Oliphant Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Oliphant Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Oliphant Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Oliphant Genealogy - Marriages
Robertson Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Robertson Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Robertson Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by County and Parish
Robertson Genealogy - Marriages
Sandilands Genealogy - Birth & Baptisms
Sandilands Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Sandilands Genealogy - Marriages
Spence Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Spence Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Families
Spence Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Spence Genealogy - Marriages
Trotter Genealogy - Births & Baptisms
Trotter Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Location
Trotter Genealogy - Births & Baptisms Sorted by Family
Trotter Genealogy - Marriages
Trotter Marriages by Spouse
Trotter Marriages by Location
The site is easily navigated by utilizing the side tool bar to search the various databases. Once you have opened one of the PDF documents you can easily search the document by typing the surname that you are searching for in the find feature of Adobe Reader located at the top of the opened document page like the example to your right.
If you are interested in searching this site click here to be redirected to this site to begin your search of these documents. As with all transcribed documents, I would suggest that you confirm the information that you see with the original transcripts if possible as transcription errors can and do occur. Some of the transcribed databases provide the film number from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City for you to confirm the data.
Thank you to the editor for placing this information on line for use. This is a great site and worth checking into if you have Scottish Heritage.
1 comment:
I have been corresponding with the editor of ScotsFind Website regarding the sourcing of the information. The following information I have asked and received permission to post a portion of his response to my query.
"ScotsFind is a hodge podge of information I picked up along the way
while trying to figure out who my ancestors were. Some of the databases
are from out-of-copyright books, e.g. the burgesses database; some are
extraction from microfilm, e.g., the Canongate burials, which I then
type in to Excel. Still others are extracted from the LDS' Scottish
Church Records cd, extensively edited and then put into a searchable format.
The latter have evolved over time into what I am now doing to the
Robertson databases. The original records contain errors and the
extractors added to the number of errors. When those errors are
combined with phonetic spellings of surnames it is amazing we find as
many of our ancestors as we do.
---Richard Robertson"
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