Findmypast: Focus on Scotland

Explore over 250,000 birth, baptism, marriage, death, and burial records, mostly the latter, in three new collections from North East Scotland. 

Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Births & Baptisms

Transcriptions for dates from 1520 to 1998, 22945 in total. Over 70% predate civil registration in 1855.

Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Marriages

Transcriptions of 34,680 marriages from 1474 (a few earlier ones look like transcription errors) to 2012. Most (61%) occurred between 1875 and 1925.

Scotland, Banffshire & Moray Deaths & Burials

Transcriptions of 195,979 events from possibly as early as 1020 up to 2019. The late 19th and early 20th centuries are the focus.

 

Scotland, Burgess & Guild Brethren Index

Over 60,000 additions to this collection of occupation records dating from the 1200s to the 1970s. Includes exclusive portrait photos. Myko Clelland spent most of the Friday's Live session explaining these and related employment records as well as answering questions. He also mentioned FMP has records coming for Scottish physicians.

Newspapers
This week has also seen 11 new newspapers and six newspapers with expanded coverage added.