Trace Scotland Family History Using Online Resources

Tracing your Scottish roots would likely be the mostcan order it from your local LDS Family History Center
fun and enjoyable with an extended trip to Scotland tofor a small fee. As of April 2010, the fees were $5.50
trace family history and discover ancestors. For mostfor a microfilm and $.15 per microfiche film. Readers
of us however, due to the time and expense involvedare at these centers that you can use for free once
in that approach, it isn't a very realistic alternative.your requested film has arrived.
Luckily for us though, Scotland family history researchAdditional records are also available on the world wide
and finding those missing ancestors can be handledweb for tracing your Scottish Family History. One of
quite effectively from abroad once we learn where tothe most valuable of the Scottish online resources is
find and how to use some of the Scottish genealogicalavailable from the Scottish Archive Network (do a
resources that are available.search engine inquiry for their current site). One of their
In both the United States and Canada, as well as aresources is their SCAN online catalog which enables
few other countries in the world, some of the bestyou to get information about more than 20,000
genealogical resources that are available are thedifferent collections of historical record archives in
microfilm archives of the Family History Center fromScotland.
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. TheThis catalog is designed to help you discover if a
LDS church has over 3000 local Family Historyparticular Scottish archive has the records you need
Centers around the world. If you live in North America,for your family history research. It will tell you what
Great Britain, Australia or in one of a few otherarchives are held in Scotland and where they are held.
countries, it is probable that there is a local FamilyIt also gives a brief summary of the collection, who
History Center near you. You can locate one by doingcreated the records and links to where you can get
a search for The Church of Jesus Christ ofmore detail. It will also tell you what language the
Latter-Day Saints, in the phone book or by doing aarchive is in (most often English) and what the
search on one of the large search engines like Google,restriction are on access if there are any.
Yahoo or Bing.Another very valuable Scottish genealogical research
The Family History Centers, can be used free ofresource is the online website at
charge by anyone of any denomination. You can visitscotlandspeople.gov.uk. Here you can find one of the
the center and get help from the volunteers wholargest online genealogical resources for Scotland
operate the facility. If you know the place and type oforiginal historical and genealogical information. This site
records for which you are searching, these folks canhas in the vicinity of 80 million records to help you find
often help you determine whether there are microfilmsand join your Scottish ancestors. These include census
or microfiche records readily available. Over manyrecords, vital birth and death records, as well as
past years, The LDS Family History Center hasmarriage and will records.
microfilmed many different denomination church andWhen you start digging into online search engine
parish as well as government records from dozens ofresults and the above mentioned online and Family
countries worldwide. They keep their master records inHistory Center resources (that are pretty much at
granite vaults and they make copies on request toyour finger tips), you will find a rich abundance of
send out to the satellite centers like the one in yourinformation to help you discover those Scottish roots
locality. Once you identify a microfilm or microfiche thatand build more branches on your family tree in
may have the information you are trying to find, youScotland. Have fun and much success!