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====General Links====
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/bmdscotlandandireland.htm National Archives Guide: Looking for records of a birth, marriage or death in Scotland and Ireland]
*[[Findmypast]] and Ancestry, pay websites, both have many databases of records from Scotland. :Search for Scotland in [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records Findmypast databases] . Findmypast additionally has a number of Scottish newspapers in the category "Newspapers and periodicals"/British Newspapers. There is a filter by County available including counties in Scotland.:Search for Scotland in [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/catalog/ Ancestry databases].
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1986318?region=Scotland Scotland records from FamilySearch]. At times you have needed to be signed in to FamilySearch to see the whole webpage. Free records. Includes transcribed index records and links to additional catalogue material, some of which may need to be viewed at a FamilySearch Centre, or FS Affiliate Library, see [[FamilySearch Centres]]. (To view records you need to be signed in to [[FamilySearch]]).
:Some records from National Records of Scotland, see below, are available on FamilySearch catalogued as "Microfilm of original records ... in the New Register House, Edinburgh". These are mainly catalogued as Old parochial registers [OPR], parish registers or blotter registers. There are also some records catalogued from National Archives of Scotland. Use the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog Catalog Search]. Currently (2021/03/07) these records are catalogued as available both at [[FamilySearch Centres| FamilySearch Family History Centres]] and at FS Affiliate Libraries, although in the past at times they were restricted to Family History Centres only, so always check access restrictions.
*Online [https://archive.org/details/scottishdirectories?sort=-date Scottish Directories] from the collection of the [http://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland National Library of Scotland on Archive.org]. Also available on the [http://digital.nls.uk/directories/ National Library of Scotland] website, where there is a '''Search''' facility. The collection on Archive.org is probably easier to browse, the collection on the NLS website easier to search.
*[https://maps.nls.uk/additions.html "New gazetteer for searching Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile, 1888-1913 maps" [of England, Scotland, and Wales<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Scroll down to entry dated April 2018 for details. Direct link for [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=1&b=1 Search] maps.nls.uk.
==Other records==
*David Dobson has written a number of books containing genealogical information, based on records found in libraries and archives in Scotland including
