Knowledge base
Your Scottish Archives’ Knowledge Base contains information to help you find and use records which are usually held in local and community archives in Scotland. It is arranged into three sections: record types, record creators and topics.- Record types: describes the kind of information you will find in each record type and tells you where these record types can be found.
- Record creators: tells you about local authorities, organisations, corporations and other bodies which created the record types.
- Topics: gives you some contextual background to the many and diverse functions and activities of local record creators, to help you explore and interpret the record types.
- Acts & Records of the Old Scottish Parliament
- Acts & Records of the Scottish Parliament
- Acts of the UK Parliament (Westminster)
- Broadsides and Chapbooks
- Building Standards records
- Catholic Church records
- Census – 1851 religious census
- Census – Ragman Roll
- Census – Webster’s Census
- Census – Pre-1841 household surveys
- Censuses and Quasi-Censuses
- Cess Rolls
- Commissioners of Supply minutes
- Court records
- Criminal registers and photographs
- Death records – Catholic
- Death records – Cemeteries
- Death records – Church of Scotland
- Death Records – Monumental Inscriptions
- Death Records – Mortcloths
- Death records – Other churches
- Death records – Undertakers & masons
- Death records – Hospital death registers
- Education records
- Electoral rolls
- Heritors’ records
- Kirk session records
- Letter books
- Medical Officers of Health records
- Minute books
- Parliamentary papers after 1707
- Parochial board & parish council records
- Passenger Lists
- Passports
- Photographs of police officers & buildings
- Police – central government records
- Police administrative files
- Police Authority Minutes
- Police Chief Constable’s reports
- Police licensing and similar records
- Police memoranda books
- Police order books
- Police predecessors’ records
- Police Records
- Police Records Locations
- Police staff records
- Police station records
- Poor Relief – Applications for Poor Relief
- Poor Relief – Children’s Separate Registers
- Poor Relief – General Registers of Poor
- Poor relief – Inspectors of poor records
- Poor Relief – Poorhouse records
- Poor relief – central government records
- Poor relief – poor registers (1845-1865)
- Poor Relief records
- Postal Directories
- Prison Records – Burgh prison records
- Prison Records – County Prison Board minutes
- Prison Records – Modern prison records
- Procurators Fiscal records
- Property records
- Property Records – Sasine Abridgements
- Records concerning young people
- Registers of Liquor Licensing
- School admission registers
- School board minutes
- School log books
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland
- Trust Sederunt books
- Valuation Rolls
- Wills and testaments