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SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT rps.ac.uk

A wonderful resource from the University of St Andrews is the Records of the Parliament of Scotland to 1707 project. Fully searchable by names of people and places, it allows you to read Scottish Parliament documents written in the original Scots language or via English translations.

HERALDRY heraldry-scotland.co.uk/ mitchell- rolls.html

The Heraldry Society of Scotland hosts anciently recorded blazons (word descriptions) of arms. These contain descriptions of armorial bearings pre-1672, when an official register was first created by the Lord Lyon. Information on subsequent coats of arms is available on ScotlandsPeople.

ABERDEEN BURGH RECORDS scotlandsplaces.gov.uk

If your ancestors were from Aberdeen and worked within one of the incorporated trades or merchant guild between 1398 and 1511, the burgh records have been digitised and made freely available on ScotlandsPlaces. Essentially a record of the city’s medieval council, they form part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.

MEDIEVAL SCOTS www.poms.ac.uk

If you are lucky enough to trace any of your Scottish family lines back to a time before the Reformation, the People of Medieval Scotland project at www.poms.ac.uk may help to find earlier examples of your family from the period 1093-1314, as sourced from over 8,000 contemporary documents.