Coastal cottage Glencoe

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To start tracing your scotland family you can do worse than see what Wikpedia has to say about your family tree scotland the origins of  scottish families. Here is a clan map showing where your scotland family originates. For example, McDonalds come from the Inner Islands and from Glencoe and their great rivals the Campbells come from Argyll.

For a bit more depth, you can type in your Scotland family name to this site, to see a mass of information including all the septs and sub families within it. You can always visit your own clan website, of course, but these are highly varied in quality.

 

It is easy to find your Family in Scotland

This voyage of discovery is going to be great for you. You only need four online sources of information to find your ancestors’ scotland, three of them are free. What joys you will have as you uncover old memories, rumours and half-truths about your scottish family history.

 

The specialist pages of the BBC website are a good free starting point to trace your scotland family.

 

Ancestors Scotland search

This free site is a specialist portal to trace your ancestors in scotland and is well organised. It points you to free online data such as births, marriages, deaths, censuses, passenger lists, parish maps.

 

This is the general Register Office containing Scotland family history records. You can order extracts from their records and they will help you search. Census information dates to 1841

 

The overall best site for tracing your Scottish family and your family tree Scotland

Their sister site about has 50million records of Scotland’s families available for access - nearly ten times the size of Scotland's population. Parish records, births, marriages etc are all there, but also Wills and Testaments. They also have advice on building your Scottish family tree. There are also extras such as reading older handwriting, useful for old Wills and Testaments, vocabularly and old Scots language. Invaluable this site. Very many of the services are free but if you want a particular copy of a document it will cost you around £6, and you can get 90 days' worth of viewing the records.

 

 

 

 

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All in one page, your family tree in Scotland, your Scottish family, your Scottish ancestors

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