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Visit the ScotlandsPeople Centre for access to the records held by the General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. There is also a café and shop.
Visit the ScotlandsPeople website to search the official online source of parish register, civil registration and census records as well as wills and testaments and Coats of Arms for Scotland.

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How to order an official extract from the statutory and old parish registers and the 1841 to 1901 census records
How to obtain an official extract from the ScotlandsPeople website
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Information about our records is published on the ScotlandsPeople Centre website:
- Statutory records from 1855 (including the Minor records and the Register of Corrected Entries)
- Old Parish Registers 1553-1854
- Census records 1841-1901
- Miscellaneous manuscript records (mainly pre-1855)
Leaflet S1 List of main records held by the General Register Office for Scotland (36KB pdf file)
List of Parishes and Registration Districts (Excel and pdf)
Irregular Border and Scottish Runaway Marriages: a guide to the records held by the General Register Office for Scotland and other custodians

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