Find Records Online

Emma recommends these three websites for finding information about your Scottish forebears’ education

Findmypast

w findmypast.co.uk

The site has transcripts of school registers and other records from Lanarkshire, and images of Edinburgh Academy’s registers (1824–1914).

Old Scottish

w oldscottish.com

Search an index of School Leaving Certificates (1908–1924) containing about 250,000 entries; images cost £5 (see page 65).

Ancestry

w ancestry.co.uk

Ancestry has records from schools in Fife, and ‘Perthshire, Scotland, School Registers of Admission and Withdrawals, 1869–1902’.