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.