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Memories and knowledge from elderly relatives can provide you with a mine of invaluable information about your ancestors.

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If you’d prefer to draw your family tree online, then you can do so for free on the Family Echo website. It can also help you decide exactly how far back in time you want to go, and will give you something to always be able to refer back to – no matter how complicated your search gets. Then add any additional family members that you know about, and see how far you can get.ĭrawing out your family tree before you delve any deeper into your research will help you to highlight what you already know, and what you want to find out about your family history.

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Start with the full name, and date and place of birth of yourself, any siblings, a spouse if you have one, and your parents. This map can be based on memory alone, or you might want to dig out old photo albums, or other bit of information that you know you already have, to help you piece it all together. All you need for this is a large piece of paper, a pen and some quiet space.

Wills, funeral planning & inheritance taxīefore you dive in and start looking for answers about your family history, it’s worth taking some time to sketch out what you already know.

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Useful websites for family history research pages provide access to online resources and the official records of other countries. The palaeography page provides information about our online tuition, evening classes and self-help pack on Scottish handwriting. The Shop page has details of our official guide to tracing Scottish ancestors and other publications to aid your research.

At Local Family History Centres elsewhere in Scotland.

Once you have got the outline of your family tree you may like to continue your research in the Historical Search Room. We also provide a small Reference Library

At our ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh.

To protect the privacy of living people there are cut-offs of 100 years for images of birth records, 75 for marriages and 50 for deaths.

You can search the records in the following ways:

Coats of Arms (from 1672) from the Court of the Lord Lyon.

Catholic Parish Registers (from 1703) from the Scottish Catholic Archives.

Military Service Appeal Tribunals (1916-1918).

Soldiers' and airmen's wills (1857 to 1965).

Highland and Island Emigration Society records (on our ScotlandsPeople website).

Other Presbyterian church records (1761 to 1854).

Statutory registers of births, deaths and marriages (from 1855).

Birth, death and marriage records including.

The following are the main records for family history research:

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Our research guides cover all areas of the national archive collections.

This brief guide covers: the main records for tracing Scottish ancestors where and how you can access them and our guides and services to aid your family history research. You will usually find tracing a Scottish line of descent back to 1855 fairly straightforward but going beyond 1855 can be more difficult. Start with a person whose full name you know, together with identifying details such as place and date of birth, marriage or death.

If you are starting to compile your family tree the best advice is to work backwards in time.