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 and Records of the Old Scottish Parliament (Until 1707)
- Acts and Records of the Scottish Parliament (from 1999)
- Acts of the UK Parliament (Westminster)
- Broadsides and Chapbooks
- Building Standards records
- Catholic Church records
- Census – 1851 religious census
- Census – Pre-1841 parish household surveys
- Census – Ragman Roll
- Census – Webster’s Census
- Censuses and Quasi-Censuses
- Cess Rolls
- Commissioners of Supply minutes
- Court records
- Criminal registers and criminal photographs
- Death Records – Burial and death registers of other churches
- Death records – Burial registers of Church of Scotland churches
- Death Records – Death registers of Catholic churches
- Death Records – Hospital registers of death
- Death Records – Monumental Inscriptions
- Death Records – Mortcloths
- Death Records – Records of municipal and private cemeteries
- Death Records – Records of undertakers and monumental masons
- Education records
- Electoral rolls
- Heritors’ records
- Kirk session records
- Letter books
- Medical Officers of Health records
- Minute books
- Parliamentary papers after 1707
- Passenger Lists
- Passports
- Photographs of police officers and police buildings
- Police – central government records
- Police Authority Minutes
- Police Chief Constable’s annual reports, statistical returns and other reports
- Police correspondence files, case files and administrative files
- Police licensing and similar records
- Police memoranda books
- Police order books, instructions and manuals
- Police predecessors’ records
- Police Records
- Police Records Locations
- Police staff records
- Police station records
- Poor Relief – Applications for Poor Relief
- Poor Relief – Board of Supervision and Local Government Board records
- Poor Relief – Children’s Separate Registers
- Poor Relief – General Registers of Poor
- Poor Relief – Miscellaneous records of Inspectors of poor
- Poor Relief – Poorhouse records
- Poor Relief – Registers of Poor (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 and Fatal Accident Inquiries
- Property records
- Property Records – Sasine Abridgements
- Records of parochial boards and parish councils
- Records relating to children and 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