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:FamilySearch Digital Library contains [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/745737 ''Smith's inventory of genealogical sources : Scotland''] in 34 volumes c 1994, with most volumes covering a different county. To view, you need to be signed into FamilySearch. A description in the first volume states "The Inventory provides a locator for items within printed and unpublished material. For example, there are many historical society publications, serials, and periodicals that deal with a variety of subjects. ...The Inventory is designed to bring to light some of the valuable articles hidden within these sources which are not well known to the amateur genealogist. ...The cut-off date for material in this Inventory is December 1989." [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/606832-smith-s-inventory-of-genealogical-sources-scotland-v-01-pt-01?viewer=1&page=11 List of Subjects covered] Volume 1, pages 8-12.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203704/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/scots.htm Indexes with an India connection transcribed from "Emigrants from Glasgow and the West of Scotland"]. Rampais website, now archived. The Indexes were transcribed from a series of booklets with that title at The Scottish Genealogy Society located in Edinburgh.
*[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]
**[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/certificates-and-copies Certificates and copies]
**[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/research-guides/forenames Forenames and naming patterns in Scotland]
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