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Scottish General Registration records date from 1 January 1855 and are kept by the Registrar General of Scotland at New Register House, Edinburgh. Booking is advisable, and you will be charged a fee of £16 per day or £60 per week for access to Civil Registration, census and parish records. You can search the General Registration indexes by computer, note down the reference number of entries that seem relevant and then examine them on microfiche. The computer does not pick up variant spellings, so if your ancestor John McDonald was indexed as John MacDonall, then you will miss him unless you search under that spelling. You can check the original records at once, at no extra cost, and it is often possible to trace back to 1855 in a day. A certificate costs £6 while a photocopy of an event between 1855 and 1891 costs £1.50.

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk is a major development in Scottish genealogy. It includes indexes to Scottish General Registration of births, marriages and deaths from 1855 to 1906, 1931 and 1956 respectively. You can see basic details of an entry for 30p or download images of the original records for £1.20.

Microfiche copies of the records 1855–1920 are available at Mormon Family History Centres and the SoG.

You can also commission a search from the register office staff.

The Registrar General of Scotland also has indexes to:

Consular returns of birth and death from 1914 and marriages from 1917.

Army births, marriages and deaths of Scots in British bases worldwide from 1881.

Deaths of Scots in the armed forces for the Boer War and the First and Second World Wars.

Births and deaths of Scots or children of Scottish fathers in British aircraft from 1948.