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Municipal cemeteries have been operating since the nineteenth century. Along with crematoria, they usually keep their own records, or you can ask at the nearest archives.

Between death and burial, no small number of bodies went to the anatomy schools of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews. Registers of these cadavers from 1842 onwards are in NAS class MH1, and include name, age and last place of residence (often the workhouse or infirmary). A gory addition to your family tree, perhaps, and for pre-1855 deaths actually quite a useful one.

Transcribed monumental inscriptions from the churchyard in Robert Burns’ birthplace, Alloway (Alloway Monumental Inscriptions, Alloway and South Ayrshire FHS, 2000), showing how inscriptions can connect families across the world.