GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CDs IN THIS SERIES Parish records--primarily births, baptisms, marriages, and burials--provide the best source of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration. This collection includes parish records and similar sources in the United Kingdom approximately 1538 to 1837. The records include baptisms, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records.
What is the original source of the data on this CD-ROM? The 410,175 records in this database come from wills, guild rolls, monumental inscriptions, marriage records and other similar sources from northern Scotland around 1538 to 1837. Records like these can provide the best source of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration. This CD is fully searchable on any word, including names and places.
CONTENTS
Inverness: -Commissariot Record of Inverness, 1630-1800
Orkney: - Testaments, Inventories, 1573-1615
Kincardineshire, Fife, Kinross, Perth, & Forfar: - Commissariot of St. Andrew's, Register of Testaments, 1549-1800
Caithness: Canisbay - Parish Registers, 1652-1666
Scotland: - Roll of Dumbarton Burgesses and Guild Brethren, 1600-1846
Scotland: - 1. Commissariot Record of Brechin, Register of Testaments, 1576-1800 2. Commissariot Record of Dunblane, 1539-1800
Kincardineshire, Perth, & Forfar: - Commissariot Record of Dunkeld, Register of Testaments, 1682-1800, and the Commissariot Record of Kirkendbright, Executry Papers, 1663-1800
Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire - Protocol Book of Sir John Christisone, 1518-1551
Perth: - Protocol Book of Sir Robert Rollock, 1534-1552
Shetland: Unst - Register of Marriages, 1797-1863
Sutherland: Assynt, Stoer - Marriage Index, 1798-1855
Aberdeenshire: - Jacobite Cess Roll, 1715
Aberdeenshire: Inverurie - Register of Baptisms, Burials (Episcopal), St. Mary's , 1842-1929
Aberdeenshire: Aberdeen - Register of Baptisms, St. John's Episcopal, 1778-1855
Aberdeenshire: Aberdeen - Register of Burials, St. Nicholas Churchyard, 1571-1647
Aberdeenshire: Aberdeen - Register of Burials, St. Nicholas Churchyard, 1647-1670
Aberdeenshire: Braemar - Register of Baptisms (Roman Catholic), St. Andrew's, 1703-1757
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