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*[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] and [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/catalog/ Ancestry databases].
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1986318?region=Scotland Scotland records from FamilySearch]. Currently (2019/07/06) At times you need 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 (20202021/0403/1007) these records are catalogued as available only both at [[FamilySearch Centres| FamilySearch Family History Centres]]. although previously they appear to have been also viewable and at FS Affiliate Libraries, although in the past at times they were restricted to Family History Centres only, so always check access restrictions.
: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 A description in the first volume states "The Inventory provides a locator for items within printed and unpublished material.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 the "Emigrants from Glasgow and the West of Scotland"] Rampais website, now archived. The Indexes were transcribed from records at
*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.
==External links==
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25530110 "Scots in India in the Eighteenth Century"] by G. J. Bryant ''The Scottish Historical Review'' Vol. 64, No. 177, Part 1 (Apr., 1985), pp. 22-41. jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free. Some restrictions apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]] for more details.
