ScotlandsPeople, which makes a charge for detailed search results, already contains birth and marriage records from the old parish registers kept by the Church of Scotland for 300 years before civil registration began in 1855.
On 1 April the site added records of deaths from the same sources, which parishes were required to provide to the creation of Scotland’s Registrar General in 1855. It now holds records for births, marriages and deaths from 1553, along with census records from 1841 to 1901, wills and testaments from 1513 to 1901 and coats of arms from 1672 to 1907.
Source: Kable’s Government Computing
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