Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry
by Kathleen B. Cory

This is the most practical, up-to-date, and informative guide to Scottish ancestry to ever come on the market.

Packed with information and advice on basic research techniques, it focuses on the holdings of the two principal Scottish record repositories: the General Register Office at New Register House and the Scottish Record Office -- both located in Edinburgh.

With records of births, marriages, and deaths before and after 1855, and census returns from 1841 to 1891 at the first-named location and wills, testaments, deeds, and church records at the other, the author guides you, record by record, to a successful conclusion of your search. Five especially useful appendices follow, including a glossary of occupations, and terms, a list of useful addresses, and. maps.

The most important of all, a 43-page list of every parish in Scotland by county, and commissariat, it shows the date of the earliest birth or marriage records in the Old Parish Registers and the earliest date of testaments or inventories.

195 pp., paperback, 1990, ISBN 0-8063-1534-2