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Catholic Church births and baptisms for 1703-1955 are now indexed on ScotlandsPeople. NEW! Join a Genealogy Research Community for Scotland on Skype or Facebook!

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Welcome to the page for Scotland! FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. This page is the portal to all that the wiki has to offer on Scotland. Through the Scotland portal page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Scotland records of genealogical value. However, these pages are works in progress and their content will grow with time. We invite you to contribute information.

Beginners' Corner

Reading these articles first may help you get started with your Scottish research.

• Getting Started - how to get started with your Scottish research
• Strategies for locating births, marriages, and deaths in Scotland
• Beginners Guide: Finding Records of Your Ancestors - Scotland 1855 To 1901 (42 Mb pdf file)
• Researching Your Scottish Ancestry Before 1855 - seven tips for finding your ancestors
• Record selection table - a list of the best records to search to find specific information

Featured content

• Browse: Pages for Scotland
• Article: Scotland Church Records Union List - introduction to this resource available in the Wiki.
• Article: ScotlandsPeople - information about this premier website for online access to Scotland's genealogical records.

Research tools

Click on a county to go to that county's page:

• County list (with abbreviation codes)
• Maps of old and new counties
• Personal names
• Glossary of terms
• Handfast tradition
• Bartholomew's map of Scotland counties
• BYU Research Guide for Scotland 

Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:

• Scotland Births and Baptisms (FamilySearch Historical Records)
• Scotland Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Useful Websites

Click here for information about online resources for Scotland

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