ScotlandsPeople improves searching of death records

ScotlandsPeople ( scotlandspeople. gov.uk) has made its records easier to search by adding the mother’s maiden name to older death records as a search term. Scottish death records, unlike those in England and Wales, often include the deceased’s mother’s maiden name, although this was not routinely included before 1974. However, ScotlandsPeople has now identified more than one million older records from 1855–1883 that do include the maiden name.