Useful websites for Scottish records
Ancestry
ancestry.co.uk Due to a partnership with Fife Archives, Ancestry is particularly strong for that area, but also has other Scottish collections.
Canmore Database
canmore.org.uk This online catalogue allows you to access images and information about 300,000 historical places in Scotland.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.cwgc.org Search here for war casualties – you can find date and place of death, next-of-kin details, and memorial information.
FamilySearch
familysearch.org This vast family history site has some Scottish specific content, including church and census records although these are transcriptions and indexes. Also offers Scottish tutorials.
Findmypast
findmypast.co.uk Find Scottish Roman Catholic records here plus transcriptions from local family history societies.
Memento Mori
memento-mori.co.uk This index covers certain burial grounds/ cemeteries in the counties of Berwickshire, Clackmannanshire, East Dunbartonshire, Fife, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, North West Lothian, Perthshire and Stirlingshire. You can order a photograph and transcript for £5.50.
Moray Burial Ground Research Group
mbgrg.org This site covers Morayshire and Banffshire.
NLS Map Library
maps.nls.uk This website, from the National Library of Scotland, provides digitised national and county maps, town plans and estate plans.
ScotlandsPlaces
scotlandsplaces.gov.uk Here you can source information from various national databases containing Ordnance Survey name books, tax records, archaeological records, photographs, maps, survey plans and drawings.
Scottish Indexes
scottishindexes.co.uk This ever-increasing range of indexed sources, searchable by name and keyword, is run by a husband and wife team based in Scotland. Some of them are also on Ancestry.
Virtual Mitchell
mitchelllibrary.org Search about 9,000 historical photographs depicting people and buildings around the city of Glasgow by area, street name or subject. Most of the images are housed in the Mitchell Library, but some are also held by Glasgow Museums or are in private collections.