Scottish Monumental Inscriptions records, with images, added to Ancestry

A great development on Ancestry is the recent uplaod of records from Scottish Monumental Inscriptions (https://scottish-monumental-inscriptions.com), a long-standing project from Helen Grant and her team to index and photograph stones at cemeteries across Scotland. I think this marks the first time that the images are available now in addition to the transcripts from the monuments, particularly welcome as the SMI site itself now only offers downloadable PDFs of the inscriptions, without the images:

Scotland, Burial Monument Inscriptions, 1507-2019
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62497/
Source: Indexes and images of Scottish Monumental Inscriptions. Kennoway, Scotland: Scottish Monumental Inscriptions.

About Scotland, Burial Monument Inscriptions, 1507-2019

General collection information

This collection comprises information transcribed from gravestones in cemeteries throughout Scotland.

Using this collection

Records may include the following information:

• Names of the deceased
• Names of spouses
• Birth dates
• Death dates
• Age at death
• Names of children
• Place of residence
• Occupations
• Inscriptions

This collection can be used to confirm when your ancestor died and where they were buried. It also may confirm your ancestor’s date of birth, along with other information.

Collection in context

The indexes and photographs were created by Scottish Monumental Inscriptions, an organisation created with the aim of photographing burial grounds around Scotland, in order to preserve information from the gravestones.

 

For further details, and to perform searches, please visit the link above.

(With thanks to Ken Nisbet)

Chris

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