If you live at an address in Scotland, you can gain access to a free library edition of FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) if you register for access to the National Library of Scotland's licensed digital collections (see https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/). This will allow you access to many of the site's UK holdings, as well as its digitised newspapers, at no cost. From the NLS site:
Findmypast is a searchable online archive of over 2 billion records - birth, marriage and death records, parish records, censuses, migration records and military collections. It includes records from Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and the United States. This resource has a concurrent user limit of 10 - please try again later if you cannot get access. Note: Findmypast is no longer supported in IE9 or IE10 and if you continue to access in a non-supported browser you may experience problems with the website.
Some county library services also offer similar access, so check with their sites too!
There are many other useful freebies from the NLS also via its licensed digital collections - access to the 19th century newspaper collection, The Times, The Scotsman Digital Archive 1817-1950, JSTOR, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, SCRAN, Who's Who & Who Was Who, the UK Parliamentary Papers site, and much more.
Chris
Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.
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