ScotlandsPeople releases new batch of church courts records

This is more like it! ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) has updated its kirk session registers collection, with records also added from presbyteries, synods and the General Assembly. From its news release:

Nearly 4,000 new volumes of records from the Church of Scotland, equating to around 290,000 digital images, have been added to the ScotlandsPeople website. This release complements the upload of kirk session minute books and accounts in 2021 and is the latest instalment in an ongoing programme of making church records available online.

This new upload, including over 3,000 kirk session records, also provides online access to records of presbyteries, synods and the General Assembly, all of which have been made available on ScotlandsPeople for the first time and are ready to be explored.

Covering almost 350 years of Scottish history, from the 1560s to 1900, digital images of a vast array of church court records can now be searched and viewed for free. Images can be saved at a cost of two credits per image. Available records include minute books, accounts and cash books, communion rolls, seat rents, poor relief and education records, as well as a wide variety of other records created by church courts. 

For further details visit https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/article/news-article-more-church-court-records-released-scotlandspeople.

Records are fee to view online, but are watermarked with the ScotlandsPeople logo. Clean images can be downloaded at 2 credits per page.

Update: On the ScotlandsPeople Facebook page, they have answered someone's query on dissenter records as follows: "A wider scope of CH3 records are currently being prepared for release to the Virtual Volumes area of ScotlandsPeople during 2025."

Chris

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