Scottish Certificates
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Birth Certificates
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Marriage Certificates
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Death Certificates
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Ordering a BMD Certificate
Scottish Certificates (known as an "extract") can be obtained in a number of ways depending on the date and type of the event concerned.
The options available are;
ScotlandsPeople
General Register Office for Scotland (GROS)
Local Register Offices
ScotlandsPeople
The ScotlandsPeople website offers search and downloads of the following certificates, if you require a certificate within the dates shown the site offers the easiest,quickest and cheapest method to obtain certificates:
Births 1855-1906
Marriages 1855-1926
Deaths 1855-1956
A visual introduction to ScotlandsPeople, showing how to search the records and obtain copies of certificates can be found within the wiki at Visual Introduction to ScotlandsPeople
General Register Office for Scotland (GROS)
Local Register Offices
Unlike their English and Welsh counterparts the local offices within Scotland have a digitised records system. This allows most of the local registrars to supply copies for any event, regardless of whether it is within their district or not.
In effect it means that as well as ScotlandsPeople and the GROS there are over a hundred locations where you can obtain a copy certificate for family history purposes.
Links to the council registration services can be found by clicking any county name from the Scotland County Index Page
