Thursday 6 January 2022

ScotlandsPeople annual update of birth, marriage and death records

The ScotlandsPeople site has updated its civil registration records to include births from 1921, marriages from 1946, and deaths from 1971. From the site:

61,614 deaths were registered in Scotland in 1971; 31,585 men and 30,029 women, totalling 2,026 fewer deaths than the preceding year. The entries of the people who died in Scotland that year are now available to search and save on the ScotlandsPeople website. They are part of over 138,500 images released in January 2022 comprising 62,746 death entries in 1971, 145,602 birth entries in 1921 and 54,630 marriage entries in 1946.

For further details visit the site's post at https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/article/our-records-ibrox-disaster-1971, which also discusses the Ibrox Disaster of 1971.

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

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