Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry

Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. New. 2004. Third Edition. Trade Paperback. Illus. , index. . 247 pages. This is the most practical, the most up-to-date, and the most informative guide to Scottish ancestry ever to come on the market. Packed with information and advice on basic research techniques, it focuses on the holdings of the two principal Scottish record repositories, the General Register Office at New Register House and the Scottish Record Office, both in Edinburgh. With records of births, marriages, and deaths before and after 1855 and census returns from 1841 to 1891 at the first-named location, and wills, testaments, deeds, and church records at the other, the author guides you, record by record, to a successful conslusion of your search. Five especially useful appendices follow, including a glossary of occupations and terms, a list of useful addresses, and most important of all, a 43-page list of Scottish parishes, counties, and commissariots. This appendix alone is worht the price of the book as it lists every parish in Scotland by district number, county, and commissariot, showing the date of the earliest birth or marriage record in the Old Parish Registers and the earlies date of testaments or inventories. .