Are school admission registers a good source for family history or biography?

School admission registers typically contain information about individual pupils (such as date of birth, and the name and address of parent/guardian). However, this is information which can usually be more easily ascertained elsewhere, for example from civil registers of births, marriages and deaths. Access is restricted for 100 years. In most cases, therefore, information from school admission registers will not help you trace your family tree back further but will help ‘flesh out’ a family history by adding details of the life of an individual ancestor. They may confirm the date of migration of the family, whether moving to another area within Scotland or to or from another country.