Scottish genealogy resources

Map of Scotland

Old Regions of Scotland

General Resources

• General Register Office for Scotland
• Scotland's People is the official Government source of genealogical data for Scotland and is the official online source of parish register, civil registration, census and wills and testaments records for Scotland.
• UK Genealogy-Scotland
• Genuki-Scotland
• Cyndi's List-Scotland
• The National Archives of Scotland
• Family Search Wiki for Scotland
• ScotlandGenWeb Project

Atlases and Maps

• County and Parish Map of Scotland interactive map lists county, parishes and resources.

County and Parish Information

• County List
• Complete Parish Name and Number List

Newpapers

• The Scotsman Digital Archive search every newspaper published between 1817 and 1950.

Surnames and Clans

• Clan Map of Scotland
• The Gathering of the Clans These pages are designed to help you find out if you have any clan affiliations.

Emigration

• Scottish Emigration Database contains the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.

Libraries

• National Library of Scotland

Blogs

• Scottish GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS)
• Scottish emigration blog

Scottish Research Bibliography

• Cory, Kathleen B. "Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry", 3rd Edition, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 2004
• Black, George F. "The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning and History," New York Public Library, NY, 1999. (This is viewed as the principal work on Scottish surname origins. You may have to purchase used.)
• Dorward, David. "Scottish Surnames", Interlink Publishing Group, MA, 2003
• Paton, Chris. Researching Scottish Family History, Family History Partnership, 2009.