Finding your Scottish Ancestry- by James Tanner

[@Isleskye]

Portions of this video lack accuracy. Mr. Tanner is a fine presenter but IMO he missed the mark in this presentation. The center for your Scottish genealogical research is neither FamilySearch, nor Ancestry nor FindMyPast. The center, if visiting Scotland, is the National Records of Scotland's (NRO) General Register House in Edinburg. If not research in person use NROs ScotlandsPeople website. ScotlandsPeople records begin about 1500 not mid1800 as implied in the video. Record searches are free but viewing the actual record image requires a wee payment by credit card. One buys "credits" to view the actual document image which then is immediately downloadable and printable. Once a user pays for an image - they have forever access to re-view, download and print it. The site keeps track of your searches and viewed documents. Other sites such as Ancestry, Family Search and FindMyPast do have indexes to these NRO' records. But only ScotlandsPeople provides both document images for instant satisfaction. Thankfully, ScotlandsPeople records go back hundreds of years earlier than Mr. Tanner mentions. They include old church baptismal and mort cloth records, all census years up to 1911, birth, marriage and death records, hearth and window tax records and so much more. Further, Mr. Tanner implies that FindMyPast and Scotland's People records are country mingled. This is not the fact with ScotlandPeople. The only records they have are Scotland based. Mr. Tanner also says FindMyPast and ScotlandsPeople are owned by the same company. This is not the fact. A DC Thompson firm now called BrightSolid was involved in digitizing records and producing the original ScotlandsPeople website under a contractual agreement. BrightSolid by no means ever owned ScotlandsPeople but they do own FindMyPast. After one exhausts NRO treasures at ScotlandsPeople's - then its time to flesh out your ancestor's story using Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch. But start right by starting smart; go to the source either in person to Scotland or via ScotlandsPeople website.

[@wyattandwill12]

Thanks for making this! It's one of the few overviews I've found for Scottish records in a video.

[@bigmeltie1]

Henry VIII? Church of England? All new to me for Scottish Records!