NEW! - Free Scottish Borders Prison Record Search
We have now made available an online searchable database for all the prisons we have indexed so far. This index does not contain all the information in our prison index books, such as the crime, but contains a free online search to enable you to identify someone in the records so that you can obtain more information.
Click here to search the online Prison Register Database.
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Valuation rolls were collected annually from 1854 to 1988. For each property they record the name and designation of the proprietor, the tenant, the occupier and the annual rateable value. They do not list any other residents in a property. |
These are very interesting journals, covering a wide variety of subjects. Very socially interesting for anybody tracing their family tree. |
We are continually collecting Scottish items that are interesting as social history and we hope may also be helpful to people researching their family tree. |
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We know that when you are researching your family history you want to know more than just names and dates. You also want to know where they lived and if it still exists. Well to help you we have put together a collection of photos - some old, some new, available on the Flickr website. |
The Edinburgh Gazette includes matters of state but also lists of bankruptcies! Add some colour to your family tree! |
These are very interesting newspapers with a lot of source information useful in conducting genealogy in Scotland. Particularly helpful are the birth, marriages and death notices in each newspaper. |
