Free Resources

Don’t under estimate Local Resources. Many of us are familiar with the standard search engines, websites (Scotland’s People, Ancestry, GenesReunited) ...
The National Library of Scotland is a reference library with world-class collections. It is also Scotland’s largest library and one of ...
National Records of Scotland (NRS) is a Non Ministerial Office (formerly described as Non-Ministerial Department) of the Scottish Government. Our ...
Society member Pam Cooper has prepared a chart to help identify the particular modern Scottish Family History Society which best ...
Scottish Naming Pattern The Scots have for many centuries followed a relatively simple set of rules when assigning given names ...
Scotlandspeople.gov.uk  website is the official Scottish Government site for searching government records and archives.  It is used by hundreds of thousands of people ...
The Scottish Genealogy Society, based in Edinburgh and founded in 1953, helps with research into Scottish family and local history. Run by ...