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These tend to record people who were born, married or died abroad. If you cannot find what you want in normal General Registration, look in the minor registers – you never know. On ScotlandsPeople, select ‘minor records’ from the drop-down county menu. If the person you expect to find does not appear, try the equivalent events-abroad records of the Registrar General in London (that effectively cover ‘the British’): these are indexed at www.findmypast.com.

The GROS Minor Records include:

 Air Register from 1948 of births (where one parent normally lived in Scotland), and deaths (of people who normally lived in Scotland) on British aircraft anywhere in the world.

 Consular Returns of birth and death from 1914 and marriage from 1917 registered with British consuls, for people ‘of Scottish descent or birth’.

 Foreign Returns (1860-1965): births of children of Scottish parentage, ‘based on evidence submitted by the parents and due consideration of such evidence’ and marriage and deaths of Scottish subjects.

 High Commission Returns (from 1964) of births and deaths of children ‘born of Scottish descent in certain Commonwealth countries’.

 Marine Register (from 1855) of births on British merchant ships at sea, where one of the child’s parents was usually resident in Scotland, and deaths of people normally resident in Scotland: and also deaths of Royal Navy and Royal Marine personnel (including Reservists) during wartime.

 Armed Services: births include Army Returns of ‘births of Scottish persons at military stations abroad’ 1881-1959; Service Departments Registers from 1959 for births of children of Scottish residents in the armed forces; marriages of Scots serving at military stations abroad; Service Returns of deaths of Scottish persons at military stations abroad (1881-1959); Service Departments Registers of deaths ‘outside the United Kingdom of persons ordinarily resident in Scotland who are serving in or employed by HM Forces, including families of members of the Forces (from 1959)’; War Returns of deaths of Scottish soldiers in the Boer War (1899-1902); Scottish soldiers and sailors in the First World War, except for commissioned officers, who are included in the First World War deaths at TNA, Kew

An army recruitment poster for the First World War showing young men having a wonderful time. There was no hint that the recruits might well end up in a foreign grave. The records of the unfortunate dead are part of the GROS’s ‘Minor Records’.