Although I am still down under in Australia, this is too big a development to wait to talk about until I get home!
The new Your Scottish Archives site has finally launched, after an extensive delay, at https://yourscottisharchives.com. Designed to replace the long out-of-date Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) platform, the site offers a catalogue of many archival institutions in Scotland, including county archive services, and for the first time, community based archives. In addition, the site has an updated Knowledge Base and Glossary, features previously available on the SCAN platform.
This is probably the most significant development in Scottish genealogy for a decade, with the platform able to assist family historians to locate many collections that can assist with research. Please note that this is not a straight migration of participating organsiations from the SCAN platform, however, so there may be organisations that were represented there now not on the new Your Scottish Archive platform, so do always remember to consult websites of Scottish archives also, in case they have their own dedicated catalogues there.
Happy hunting - and I will carry out a fuller review when I get home!
Chris
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