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*[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ ScotlandsPeople]. scotlandspeople.gov.uk. A free to search, but pay to view site containing “almost 80 million records” as at March 2010. Includes Births, Marriages, Deaths, Wills and Censuses. (At 2024, births from 1923, marriages from 1948, and deaths from 1973 are available). Includes records for BMD events overseas both Consular and Army, and events at sea (Marine Registers), relating to Scottish nationals/persons of Scottish descent<ref>[https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//research/minor-records/minor-records-catalogue.pdf Minor Records catalogue] National Records of Scotland website</ref>, in the category [https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/statutory-registers Statutory registers]

**''The Scots Overseas : Emigrants and Adventurers from Aberdeen and North East Scotland, Fife, Moray and Banff, Angus and Perth, Southern Scotland, Glasgow and the West of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland, the Lothians, and the Northern Highlands'' 2000. A reprint, originally published in multiple parts, probably with titles ''Emigrants and Adventurers from...''. Available at National Library of Scotland [https://search.nls.uk/permalink/f/sbbkgr/44NLS_ALMA21452454660004341 catalogue entry] and Family History Library, Salt Lake City Utah, USA, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/993985 catalogue entry]. The edition for ''Southern Scotland'' is available online, refer below.

*[[BACSA]] members only, available from the members only section. (Previously available generally). [https://www.bacsa.org.uk/membership/ "Scotland’s Empire: The Scots in British India"] (scroll down to podcasts) by Sir Tom Devine. [[BACSA]] podcast of a lecture 8 April 2019. "Scotland’s most distinguished historian Sir Tom Devine considers the role of Scots in India in administration, the military and trade with special reference to the period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Among the themes examined are the scale of Scottish ‘colonisation’ of the East India Company, the reasons for this and the impact of the India connection on Scotland itself. Sir Tom Devine is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Edinburgh. His books include ''To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora'', ''The Scottish Nation 1700–2000'' and ''Scotland’s Empire''. The 1st and 3rd books mentioned are available online, refer below. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Devine Tom Devine] Wikipedia. He was also joint editor and contributor to ''The Scottish Experience in Asia c. 1700 to the Present: Sojourners and Settlers'' 2017. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01019066002

*[https://archive.org/details/emigrantsadventu0000dobs/mode/2up ''The Scots Overseas. Emigrants and adventurers from Southern Scotland''] by David Dobson 1994 Archive.org Books to Borrow. Includes some records relating to India. Use Search terms such as India, East Indies, Calcutta, Bengal , Madras, Bombay etcto locate relevant entries, or Search by name.