A few months ago the ScotsFind website sadly ceased to be. It was a wonderful website with many useful genealogical collections for Scottish research. This is a list of some:
- Canongate Marriage Register
- Canongate Burials, 1820-1851
- Local Records of Dysart
- Edinburgh Register of Testaments
- Hamilton & Campsie Register of Testaments
- Inverness Register of Testaments
- Edinburgh Marriage Register 1701 - 1750
- Edinburgh Marriage Register 1595 - 1700, 1751 - 1800
- Greyfriars Interments, Edinburgh
- Origin of the Scottish Language
- Presbytrie Booke of Kircaldie
- Edinburgh Processes & Decreets
- Edinburgh Register of Apprentices
- Edinburgh Roll of Burgesses
- South Leith Records
- Scottish Surname Variants
- St. Cuthbert's Monument Inscriptions
- The Guildry of Edinburgh
In addition there were many collections relating to the surnames Biggar, Bird, Cossar, Doig, Dryburgh, Edmondston, Fiddler, Inch, James, Jarvie, Kinloch, Lumbsdale, Oliphant, Robertson, Sandilands, Spence and Trotter.
All is not quite lost however - you can still access the website. The Internet Archive has regularly taken 'snapshots' of it from 2003-2009. To access the site visit the WayBack Machine at https://archive.org and type in the web address http://www.scotsfind.org - you will be offered a choice of years to select from (I find 2007 works best).
I am not sure if it was updated beyond these cache dates, but even if so, a lot of something is better than none of something at all! The pages can be saved to your computer in PDF format.
Chris
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Thanks so much for the information. I have used the site in the past and was upset to see it gone.
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