Research guides

A

• Adopted and Looked After Children
• Aliens (foreign citizens)
• Ancestry
• Armed Forces: Births, Marriages and Deaths

B

• Belgian Refugees
• Boer War
• Bravery Medals
• Burgesses and Freemen
• Burial Lair and Cremation Registers
• Business Records

C

• Catalogues and finding aids
• Catholic Church Records
• Census, Scotland
• Church of Scotland, including Clergy
• Civil Registration, Scotland
• Clubs and Societies
• Clyde Pilots
• Council Employees
• Council House Tenants
• Councillors
• Courts
• Criminals and Convicts
• Customs and Excise Officers

D

• Directories and Phone Books

E

• Emigration, immigration and migration
• Evacuees
• Evening Times Roll of Honour

F

• Family and Estate Records
• FindMyPast
• Fire Officers
• Foreign Returns: Scots Born, Married or Died Abroad

H

• Hospital Records

J

• Justices of the Peace

L

• Licensed Occupations

M

• Maps and Plans
• Marine Register
• Merchant Seamen
• Merchants, Crafts and Apprentices
• Militia
• Monumental Inscriptions
• Mortuary Records

N

• Newspapers
• Non-conformist Churches, including Clergy

O

• Obituaries
• Old Parish Registers
• Old Poor Law
• Online resources

P

• Photographs
• Police Officers
• Poor Law from 1845

R

• Regiments
• Rolls of Honour

S

• Sasines
• Schools, Pupils and Teachers
• ScotlandsPeople Network
• Service Returns

V

• Valuation Rolls
• Voters' Rolls

W

• War Returns
• Wills and Testaments
• World War 1
• World War 2