Scottish Birth Records 1855 - 2005
The Scottish statutory Birth registers comprise the official records of births in Scotland from 1 January 1855 when civil registration replaced the old system of registration by parishes of the Established Church (Church of Scotland). The statutory births index contains entries from the indexes to the civil registers of births for all Scotland, from 1855 until end 2005.
Unlike the English & Welsh birth Index the Scottish Birth index does not include:
The full date of the event because only the year was captured when the indexes were compiled, although the full date is present on register entries themselves.
Tracing a birth record whether for a family tree or to further family research is often time consuming and frustrating. Our Birth record tracing service is designed from the information you supply to identify the year, quarter and full GRO indexes to enable the successful recovery of an accurate birth record. The recovery of the actual birth record is available via our Birth certificate service using the General Records Office (GRO).
