What is Your Scottish Archives?
Your Scottish Archives in an on-line portal which shows catalogue descriptions for materials held in archival collections kept by many different organisations across Scotland. The site also provides guides to finding and using archival collections in Scotland, including a glossary of archival and historic terms.
The Your Scottish Archives portal does not itself look after any original archival materials.
The portal includes catalogues for all kinds of archival collections, from those held in universities, to those kept by community groups. Some archive services provide descriptions which are summaries of a whole collection of items; in other cases, you may see descriptions of individual items. To be able to see the archive collections, you will need to get in touch with the archives service which looks after the material in which you are interested.
Your Scottish Archives only holds information which has been added by archive holders. Please note, not all archive holders in Scotland have added information. You can see which archives are participating by looking at our list of contributors.