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Resources for Scotland - General Genealogical Resources.
Scotland: Genealogy - Tracing your Scottish Ancestry.
Ar Turas - Genealogy researchers describe their services and offer to answer short specific queries relating to Scotland. Includes some essays.
Scottish Roots Ancestry Research - Professional Scottish genealogy and ancestry service that will undertake ancestral research into your Scottish family history.
Scotgen - Scottish genealogy and local history research service. Specialising in the North-East of Scotland.
Scot Roots - Scottish ancestor service which enlivens family trees by offering relevant historical photographs of Scottish people and places, and large scale maps to help pinpoint the family or clan ancestral home.
Inchbrakie - The homepage for the Graeme family with pictures of Graemes down the ages and the family tree. Also a rare picture of the now demolished family house of Inchbrakie and the New Inchbrakie being built in the Highlands.
Kith and Kin Genealogy - Professional Scottish genealogy research, specialising in tracing the history of families originating in the South West of Scotland - Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Wigtownshire, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire and Galloway.
Lanarkshire ScotlandGenWeb Project - Part of the WorldGenWeb Project. The resources include voluntary lookups, useful addresses and links to family web sites.
Lanarkshire Surname List - Provides a list of surnames which people are researching.
ScotlandGenweb - Buteshire - Includes links to queries and surname lists, mailing lists, researchers' home pages and resources.
Scotland Royal Genealogy - Includes a mailing list, query board, discussion forum, maps and links to various clans and resources.
Scottish Family Research - Scottish genealogy articles, discussion group and free genealogy query forum.
Scotland Genealogy Links - Scotland genealogy links and chat.
GENUKI: Scotland - Contains detailed information for each county, including archives and libraries, cemeteries, church history, emigration and immigration, gazeteers, history, maps, newspapers, poorhouses, population, schools, statistics and taxation.
Queen Mary's Poor Relations - Family tree from Mary Queen of Scots tracing through her better known family to her Quaker line in London, Norwich and Hampshire.
Scottish Forebears - Edinburgh team specialising in tracing Scottish ancestry and living Scottish relatives.
Kincardineshire Scotland - Provides details regarding mailing lists, GenConnect boards, GENUKI, archives, local resources and clan resources.
Ayeshire Scotland Genealogy - Includes mailing list and archives, queries, local and general resource links and surnames.
1st Roots - Scottish Genealogy - Genealogy researcher outlines services and fees. With information and articles on the Lauder family.
Renfrewshire, ScotlandGenWeb - Covers bulletin boards, surname resource pages, mailing lists and archives.
Ross and Cromarty - Providing query boards, mail lists, maps of the area, archives and libraries, family homepages, research guides and resource listings.
Popular Scottish Forenames - Covers the origins of over a 100 forenames or first names which are found in Scotland today.
Roots Hebrides - Advice on tracing your roots back to the Hebrides, includes history of Hebridean emigration, personal case studies and links to other resources.
Scottish Genealogy LDS Reference Information - Provides LDS reference tables for 1841 thru to 1891 Census, and birth, death and marriage index, parish number list, exchange rate information and a relationship chart.
Scottish Family History - Provides a complete list of names from the raising of the Argyllshire Highlanders Regiment at Stirling Castle in 1794.
Genealogy Pro - Provides details of professional researchers, including qualifications, services and fees.
Scottish Family Research - Trace your Scottish Ancestry with a professional researcher based in Edinburgh using the vast collection of official and other records held in Scotland's capital city.
Perthshire, Scotland GenWeb Project - Presents query boards, parish database, mailing lists, photos and resource links.
Ancestral Scotland - Resources to help trace your family roots back to Scotland, includes history of the clans and Scottish surname search.
Scottishkinsfolk - A Scottish genealogical research service discovering ancestors and family history.
Scot-Search-Genealogy - Commercial organization offering ancestral search packages. Photographic services, family tree drawing, family medical history advice and email contact details included.
Scottish Ancestral - Professional genealogy research organisation listing search options, information pages, ordering and contact details.
Scottish Documents - Provides free access to the index of Scottish wills and testaments from 1500-1875.
Lanarkshire Family History Society - The society serves Lanarkshire and welcomes membership from interested family historians.
Cuninghame of Craigends - Genealogy of the this family 1479-1917. Details of the mansion house owned by them. Provides photographs, links and message board.
Scottish Family Search - Service for researching your Scottish roots, or obtaining certificates from the Registrar.
Calling all Maitlands - Includes genealogical information about this surname.
Clans, Genealogy Culture and History - A beginners guide to ancestral searching and external research links grouped by category. Contact details, message board and site submission facilities included.
How do I trace my Scottish ancestry? - Contact information and links.
ScotlandGenWeb Project - Part of the WorldGenWeb Project, includes county and local resources, mailing list information and archives.
Inverness-shire Scotland - World Gen Web Project - provides genealogy links for Inverness and Scotland.
Scotland BDM Exchange - Providing genealogists with a free resource for sharing information about details contained on civil and parish registrations. Includes a database of births, deaths, marriages, baptisms, burials and banns.
ScotlandGenweb - Caithness - Message board and archive of queries.
ScotlandGenWeb - Dumbartonshire - Provides links to query boards, family sites, lookups and maps.
ScotlandGenWeb - Sutherland - Links to message boards and information on clans.
NE Scotland Genealogy - Local history of NE Scotland including Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, provides stories, photos, gravestone pictures, family history and other assorted information.
Ever a Scot - Providing surnames associated with 70 Scottish Clans, including Gaelic mottos, tartans, monarchs, historical information and links to online Clan organisations and societies.
The Scottish Page - Scottish ancestry, especially that of Dumfries-Galloway, providing birth, death and marriage records, census data, family histories and link to other genealogy resources.
Kinross - Shire - Part of the ScotlandGenWeb Project, offering query board, surname list and local and general resource links.
Berwickshire, Scotland - Part of ScotlandGenWeb, providing surname list, message board and various local and country links.
Sutherland Eyes - Professional researcher, providing details of services, charges and contact information.
1841 Nairnshire Free Census Project - Part of the UK Free Census Project, with the intention to encourage volunteers to make transcriptions of all the Victorian census material for the County of Nairn, Scotland freely available on the internet.
Family History Scotland - CDs for the amateur and professional genealogist. Providing online store, database project, research services and contact details.
Kirkcudbrightshire - Offers discussion list and links to local and Scottish genealogy resources.
scotsgenealogybyjean - Family history researcher based in Edinburgh, offers genealogical services for hire.
Scottish Genealogy Research - Fee based research service. Includes a summary of services and costs.
ScotlandGenWeb - Peeblesshire - Links to bulletin boards, lists and resources.
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