ScotlandsPeople gives me the same sort of thrill other people get from online gambling.
April 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
ScotlandsPeople gives me the same sort of thrill other people get from online gambling.
A fine morning to be walking down the Ness to Highland Archive and ScotlandsPeople. What discoveries lie ahead? #Inverness #Highlands #FamilyHistory
November 14, 2024 at 9:59 AM
A fine morning to be walking down the Ness to Highland Archive and ScotlandsPeople. What discoveries lie ahead? #Inverness #Highlands #FamilyHistory
I am single-handedly supporting ScotlandsPeople website this week. #Genealogy #RabbitHole
January 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I am single-handedly supporting ScotlandsPeople website this week. #Genealogy #RabbitHole
Combination of ScotlandsPeople + Ancestry yesterday gave me this lovely parish record (Clonduff, Co. Down): baptisms of children, with later addenda showing who, where, and when they married. It proved I had the right birth! #GenHour #Ancestry #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
January 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Combination of ScotlandsPeople + Ancestry yesterday gave me this lovely parish record (Clonduff, Co. Down): baptisms of children, with later addenda showing who, where, and when they married. It proved I had the right birth! #GenHour #Ancestry #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
Great fun at the ScotlandsPeople Centre today in Edinburgh, helping Strathclyde University #genealogy conference attendees with problem solving! #FamilyHistory
June 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Great fun at the ScotlandsPeople Centre today in Edinburgh, helping Strathclyde University #genealogy conference attendees with problem solving! #FamilyHistory
Updating "resources elsewhere" pages on my two Scottish one-place study websites to change ScotlandsPlaces link to go to ScotlandsPeople now (for digitised tax records and Ordnance Survey Name Books). And sad about other things I have to remove due to link rot. Fantastic resources, now totally gone.
September 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Updating "resources elsewhere" pages on my two Scottish one-place study websites to change ScotlandsPlaces link to go to ScotlandsPeople now (for digitised tax records and Ordnance Survey Name Books). And sad about other things I have to remove due to link rot. Fantastic resources, now totally gone.
ScotlandsPeople adds 290,000 new records in annual update scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/01/scot... #genealogy
ScotlandsPeople adds 290,000 new records in annual update
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:42 PM
ScotlandsPeople adds 290,000 new records in annual update scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2026/01/scot... #genealogy
For anyone with ancestors in the Highlands and Islands, ScotlandsPeople has just made original records from the Napier Commission of 1883 available scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/11/scot... - major release #genealogy
ScotlandsPeople releases Napier Commission records
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
For anyone with ancestors in the Highlands and Islands, ScotlandsPeople has just made original records from the Napier Commission of 1883 available scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/11/scot... - major release #genealogy
The addition of lots more mothers' maiden names in the ScotlandsPeople deaths index is knocking down brickwalls right, left and centre, but it is also introducing some real headscratchers. #Genealogy
April 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The addition of lots more mothers' maiden names in the ScotlandsPeople deaths index is knocking down brickwalls right, left and centre, but it is also introducing some real headscratchers. #Genealogy
Vote for #ScotlandsPeople
Vote for #OurChildrensFuture
Vote for #ScottishIndependence
Leave Liebour & Tories in the trash where they belong
#IndyClan Onwards & Upwards
Vote for #OurChildrensFuture
Vote for #ScottishIndependence
Leave Liebour & Tories in the trash where they belong
#IndyClan Onwards & Upwards
Nothing will change until we stop voting for yoon politicos' that prefer our wealth to be taken from us to prop up engerland instead.
We can only prosper through independence.
We can only prosper through independence.
February 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Vote for #ScotlandsPeople
Vote for #OurChildrensFuture
Vote for #ScottishIndependence
Leave Liebour & Tories in the trash where they belong
#IndyClan Onwards & Upwards
Vote for #OurChildrensFuture
Vote for #ScottishIndependence
Leave Liebour & Tories in the trash where they belong
#IndyClan Onwards & Upwards
A few years ago I blogged specifically about some of the records and matches you can view without charge on Scotland's people: scotsancestors.blogspot.com/2020/12/secr...
Secrets of ScotlandsPeople
scotsancestors.blogspot.com
August 22, 2026 at 6:48 AM
A few years ago I blogged specifically about some of the records and matches you can view without charge on Scotland's people: scotsancestors.blogspot.com/2020/12/secr...
ScotlandsPlaces hosted tax rolls and OS Name Books to join ScotlandsPeople scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/05/scot... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland
ScotlandsPlaces hosted tax rolls and OS Name Books to join ScotlandsPeople
From Scotland, a daily news blog about genealogy, family history and personal heritage.
scottishgenes.blogspot.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ScotlandsPlaces hosted tax rolls and OS Name Books to join ScotlandsPeople scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/05/scot... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland
I've been updating several of the presentations I give on Scottish research. The ScotlandsPeople website got a new look recently so a lot of my slides were out of date! #GenHour
October 24, 2024 at 7:17 PM
I've been updating several of the presentations I give on Scottish research. The ScotlandsPeople website got a new look recently so a lot of my slides were out of date! #GenHour
I missed on the first read, this was a partnership with Ancestry. At least for now, those records on Ancestry are in front of the paywall. ScotlandsPeople and FindMyPast also have portals
www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/...
September 22, 2026 at 6:47 AM
I missed on the first read, this was a partnership with Ancestry. At least for now, those records on Ancestry are in front of the paywall. ScotlandsPeople and FindMyPast also have portals
www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/...
Try ScotlandsPeople
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Try ScotlandsPeople
Small irritations: A search for someone with the given names (e.g.) Alexander George won't return any Statutory Register results on ScotlandsPeople, because it contains more than 15 characters; it can only cope with Alexander Georg. #Genealogy
February 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Small irritations: A search for someone with the given names (e.g.) Alexander George won't return any Statutory Register results on ScotlandsPeople, because it contains more than 15 characters; it can only cope with Alexander Georg. #Genealogy
#GenHour Was having a productive research session this afternoon, until Ancestry came up with a record that contradicted everything I had just uncovered. After ploughing through the FamilySearch catalogue and paying for a record on ScotlandsPeople, I found out why - the Ancestry record was FAKE 🧵
Found a fake record on Ancestry (AI strikes again?). It's based on an 1855 Scottish death register entry, but the "deceased" is actually one of the listed living children, and there seems to be a 'death record' for everyone mentioned on the original 😡 #genealogy #ScottishGenealogy #GenHour
May 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#GenHour Was having a productive research session this afternoon, until Ancestry came up with a record that contradicted everything I had just uncovered. After ploughing through the FamilySearch catalogue and paying for a record on ScotlandsPeople, I found out why - the Ancestry record was FAKE 🧵
St George's Square looking amazing on my morning commute today in #Glasgow on the way to #Scotlandspeople for some research
November 18, 2024 at 7:06 AM
St George's Square looking amazing on my morning commute today in #Glasgow on the way to #Scotlandspeople for some research
Consultation on fees by National Records of Scotland. Proposed increases eg for records on #ScotlandsPeople or day at centre pretty steep (c50%) first increase in 10 years or so. Do make views known. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Scotland www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications...
Registration services fees: consultation paper
We're seeking views on proposed amendments to the Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2006
www.nrscotland.gov.uk
July 13, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Consultation on fees by National Records of Scotland. Proposed increases eg for records on #ScotlandsPeople or day at centre pretty steep (c50%) first increase in 10 years or so. Do make views known. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Scotland www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications...
From the ScotlandsPeople website, Our Records: Orcadian ornithologist Eddie Balfour (1908-1974) 🪶 #ukbirding #birdingscotland #birdsky #birding www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/news-and-art...
Our Records: Orcadian ornithologist Eddie Balfour (1908-1974) | Scotland's People
Pioneering ornithologist Eddie Balfour remembered
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
January 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
From the ScotlandsPeople website, Our Records: Orcadian ornithologist Eddie Balfour (1908-1974) 🪶 #ukbirding #birdingscotland #birdsky #birding www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/news-and-art...
We have gained a fairly obnoxious and wholly bogus claim of copyright in these scans of ~1870 books.
And we have gained fairly obnoxious and wholly unnecessary watermarks on the main images for each name book page.
And we have gained fairly obnoxious and wholly unnecessary watermarks on the main images for each name book page.
June 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We have gained a fairly obnoxious and wholly bogus claim of copyright in these scans of ~1870 books.
And we have gained fairly obnoxious and wholly unnecessary watermarks on the main images for each name book page.
And we have gained fairly obnoxious and wholly unnecessary watermarks on the main images for each name book page.
Well, I guess this is one reason tax rolls are being hosted on ScotlandsPeople now... all are still browsable for free on Virtual Volumes though. More detail at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/help-and-sup... #GenHour #AncestryHour
July 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Well, I guess this is one reason tax rolls are being hosted on ScotlandsPeople now... all are still browsable for free on Virtual Volumes though. More detail at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/help-and-sup... #GenHour #AncestryHour
🏴 Getting the Most from ScotlandsPeople
Sun 29 Nov | 14:00–15:30 | Online
#GenHour - Celebrate St Andrew’s Day weekend with @genealogylass.bsky.social as she shows you how to get the best from ScotlandsPeople: BMDs, census, OPRs, valuation rolls, kirk sessions
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
Sun 29 Nov | 14:00–15:30 | Online
#GenHour - Celebrate St Andrew’s Day weekend with @genealogylass.bsky.social as she shows you how to get the best from ScotlandsPeople: BMDs, census, OPRs, valuation rolls, kirk sessions
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🏴 Getting the Most from ScotlandsPeople
Sun 29 Nov | 14:00–15:30 | Online
#GenHour - Celebrate St Andrew’s Day weekend with @genealogylass.bsky.social as she shows you how to get the best from ScotlandsPeople: BMDs, census, OPRs, valuation rolls, kirk sessions
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
Sun 29 Nov | 14:00–15:30 | Online
#GenHour - Celebrate St Andrew’s Day weekend with @genealogylass.bsky.social as she shows you how to get the best from ScotlandsPeople: BMDs, census, OPRs, valuation rolls, kirk sessions
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
Nifty site to help find your Scottish ancestors | ScotlandsPeople
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
August 26, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Nifty site to help find your Scottish ancestors | ScotlandsPeople
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
In Scotland, Scotlandspeople of course has by far the best datasets. Canada sadly lacks a single really good online source.
April 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In Scotland, Scotlandspeople of course has by far the best datasets. Canada sadly lacks a single really good online source.