Please notify me of links that don't work at jar/AT/j-a-robertson.co.uk ( with /AT/ replaced by @ ). Local government, in particular, seems to delight in changing web addresses.
| ScotlandsPeople Centre
Information about how to access records of births, marriages, deaths, censuses & testaments by visiting Edinburgh |
ScotlandsPeople 
Online indexes & records of births, marriages, deaths, censuses and testaments (wills, inventories) |
| New Register House, Edinburgh
The General Register Office for Scotland: the government department responsible for registering births, marriages, deaths, divorces & adoptions in Scotland, and for carrying out Scottish censuses. |
| National Archives of Scotland
Public records, such as testaments, tax records, sasines and deeds, and also many donated collections of private records. (Unlike the National Archives in London, the National Archives of Scotland hold more than just official records.) |
| National Register of Archives for Scotland |
| Scottish GENUKI pages |
| Poorhouses in Scotland (NOT called workhouses) |
| 19th century plans of Scottish towns |
| Scotland Census Records
Links to free Scottish census records |
| Ancestral Scotland
Scottish Genealogical Tourism |
Scottish Family History Societies
| Society Web site | Area covered | Address | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scottish Genealogy Society | All Scotland | 15 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL | |
| Aberdeen & North-East Scotland FHS | | Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire, Morayshire | 164 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5BD |
| Alloway & Southern Ayrshire FHS | Ballantrae, Colmonell, Dalmellington, Dalrymple, Girvan, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Maybole, etc. | ||
| Anglo-Scottish FHS | For Scots emigrants to England; an offshoot of Manchester and Lancashire FHS, based in Manchester | ||
| East Ayrshire FHS | Parishes of Auchinleck, Craigie, Dalmellington, Dalrymple, Dunlop, Fenwick, Galston, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Loudoun, Mauchline, Muirkirk, New Cumnock, Ochiltree, Old Cumnock, Riccarton, Sorn, Stair, Stewarton | ||
| Borders FHS | | Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire | |
| Central Scotland FHS | Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, west Perthshire | ||
| Dumfries & Galloway FHS | Dumfriesshire, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Wigtownshire | 9 Glasgow Street, Dumfries DG2 9AF | |
| Fife FHS | | Fife | |
| Glasgow & West of Scotland FHS | City of Glasgow, Ayrshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, northern Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire | Unit 13, 22 Mansfield Street, Glasgow G11 5QP | |
| Highland FHS | Caithness, Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, Ross & Cromarty, Sutherland | ||
| Lanarkshire FHS Formerly Hamilton & District FHS | | south & central Lanarkshire | |
| Largs & North Ayrshire FHS | north Ayrshire | ||
| The Lothians FHS
Formerly Midlothian FHS | East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian | Lasswade High School Centre, Eskdale Drive, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian EH19 2LA | |
| North Perthshire Family History Group | Northern Perthshire | ||
| Renfrewshire FHS | Renfrewshire | ||
| Troon & Ayrshire FHS | West Ayrshire |
Scottish Local History Societies
| Society | Area covered | Address |
|---|---|---|
| Abertay Historical Society | In Dundee | |
| Leith Local History Society | Leith in Midlothian | |
| Montrose Natural History & Antiquarian Society | Montrose in Angus |
Librarians and archivists seem to have a problem with the idea that a fixed web address would make life easier!
| Europe | National Archives of Ireland |
| National Library of Ireland | |
| National Library of Wales | |
| Links to German Archives | Other European Archives | |
| National Archives of England & Wales | |
| Office for National Statistics, Southport, England | |
| Other | Links to Non-European Archives |
| Australia | National Archives of Australia |
| National Library of Australia | |
| State Library of New South Wales, Australia
Family History Service at the State Library of New South Wales | |
| State Library of South Australia | |
| Archives Office of Tasmania, Australia | |
| State Library of Victoria, Australia
Family history resources at the State Library of Victoria | |
| Public Record Office of Victoria, Australia
Includes Family & Local History | |
| Canada | Canadian Archives and Libraries
Canadian Genealogy Centre in Canadian Archives |
| Archives of British Columbia, Canada | |
| New Zealand | National Archives of New Zealand |
| National Library of New Zealand |
| National Museums of Scotland
Umbrella site for Scotland's seven national museums | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow |
| Biggar Museum Trust | Museums in Aberdeenshire |
| University of Dundee Museum Services | Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen |
| East Lothian Museums & Galleries | Museums & Galleries in Fife - see entry there under "Museums & Galleries" |
| Shetland Museum Service | Scottish Mining Museum at Newtongrange, Midlothian |
| Aberdeen | Dundee |
| Edinburgh | Glasgow |
| Heriot-Watt (in Edinburgh) | St Andrews |
| Stirling | Strathclyde (in Glasgow) |
Local government councils (an incomplete list)
Some have archives/library information
| City of Aberdeen | Aberdeenshire | Angus |
| Argyll & Bute | Dumfries & Galloway | City of Dundee |
| East Ayrshire | East Lothian | East Renfrewshire |
| City of Edinburgh | Fife | City of Glasgow |
| Highland
(Caithness, Sutherland, Ross & Cromarty, | Inverclyde | Midlothian |
| Morayshire | North Lanarkshire | Orkney Islands |
| Perth & Kinross | Renfrewshire | Shetland Islands |
| South Ayrshire | South Lanarkshire | Stirling |
| West Dunbartonshire | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
(Western Isles / Outer Hebrides) | West Lothian |
| Gateway to Scotland
The source for information about Scotland provided by Edinburgh University's Department of Geography. Includes maps. | Gazetteer for Scotland
A project under development by Edinburgh University's Institute of Geography | Alan Godfrey Maps
Old large-scale Ordnance Survey maps of Scotland |
| Ordnance Survey | Old Maps | TSO Scotland
(formerly, The Stationery Office) - Official publications: information & bookshop |
| The Scottish Government | The Scottish Parliament | Registers of Scotland Executive Agency
Scotland's Land Registry |
| The National Trust for Scotland
Properties in the care of the National Trust for Scotland | Scottish Natural Heritage | Historic Scotland
Information about prehistoric and historic sites in the care of Historic Scotland, including abbeys, castles, churches, houses and industrial sites |
| RCAHMS
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland | SCRAN: Scottish Cultural Resource Access Network
Scotland's history & culture - part of RCAHMS | Historic Places to Go in Scotland
(Part of electric scotland) |
| George Washington Wilson Photographic Archive, Aberdeen | The Scotsman
"Scotland's National Newspaper" | Creative Scotland - The Arts in Scotland |
| Scotland Travel Guide |
The Edinburgh Civic Trust | |
| GENUKI
The main GENUKI site for genealogy-related information for the whole of the British Isles. | British Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
| Cyndi Howells's index
An index of thousands of links to genealogy sites on the internet | |
| Australian Family History Compendium | Passenger lists for migrant ships to Australia & New Zealand |
| Genealogy Online | The Federation of Family History Societies |
| Guild of One-Name Studies | LDS Family Search (GB and Ireland) - including the International Genealogical Index (IGI) |