14 April 2014
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Achievements - Gretna Green Database
Online searchable surname index with pay-for-use to obtain additional details. From Achievements of Canterbury.
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Details List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland - Google Book Search
This list is based on the printed Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland which was first published in 1872. It provides a basic reference guide for identifying the dates for the births/baptisms, marriages/proclamations of marriage and deaths/burials in the Old Parish Registers (OPRs) held by the General Register Office for Scotland.
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Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society - Publications
Including books on irregular marriages in the shire.
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ScotlandsPeople - The official Scottish genealogy resource $
A fully searchable pay-per-view website which gives access to birth, marriage and death records (Statutory Registers, Old Parish Registers, and Catholic Registers); census records from 1841 to 1911, Valuation Rolls, and Scottish wills and testaments from 1513 to 1925. The initial surname search is free and covers all records, allowing you to check how many records of a particular surname appear in the various datasets, before you commit to payment and purchase credits toward viewing the digitized images of the records. This is the official government source of genealogical data for Scotland: a partnership between the National Records of Scotland (a merger of the General Register Office for Scotland and the National Archives of Scotland) and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
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Advanced Search - Census Returns
The General Register Office for Scotland holds the census records for all Scotland. Online access to the indexes for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 and images of the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 census returns is available here on ScotlandsPeople.
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The Old Parish Registers (OPR's) comprise the records of births & baptisms, banns & marriages and deaths & burials kept by individual parishes of the Established Church (Church of Scotland) before the introduction of civil registration in 1855.
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NRS Research Guide - Catholic Parish Registers
The records cover all Scottish parishes in existence by 1855
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The official records of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland from 1 January 1855 when civil registration replaced the old system of registration by parishes of the Established Church (Church of Scotland).
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Free index search of over 611,000 index entries to Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1513 to 1901.
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ScotlandsPeople - The official Scottish genealogy resource $
A fully searchable pay-per-view website which gives access to birth, marriage and death records (Statutory Registers, Old Parish Registers, and Catholic Registers); census records from 1841 to 1911, Valuation Rolls, and Scottish wills and testaments from 1513 to 1925. The initial surname search is free and covers all records, allowing you to check how many records of a particular surname appear in the various datasets, before you commit to payment and purchase credits toward viewing the digitized images of the records. This is the official government source of genealogical data for Scotland: a partnership between the National Records of Scotland (a merger of the General Register Office for Scotland and the National Archives of Scotland) and the Court of the Lord Lyon.
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The online version of a small booklet with images and transcriptions of pages from two original Bibles belonging to a Huguenot families living in Britain. The Bibles offer considerable detailed genealogical information about the Des Croisettes family in Britain in the early 1700s.
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This website supplements Up To Rawdon, a book in two parts, which was the result of research into the early history of Rawdon Township, Lower Canada (Quebec - former county names Leinster, L