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Guide to Scotland ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Information[edit | edit source]
Scotland is a one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom (together with England, Wales and Northern Ireland). In 1707, the Kingdom of Scotland joined the Kingdom of England in union to become the Kingdom of Great Britain. The official language is English.[1], although Scottish Gaelic has some legal status within certain contexts.
Scotland has also been known unofficially as "Caledonia", hence the many "Caledonian Societies" around the world.
Scotland Map[edit | edit source]
Counties[edit | edit source]
Click on an old county name to see a list of historic parishes with further links to information on parish records. The codes are the standard 'Chapman Code' abbreviations for the historic counties. For more information see Scotland Counties.
| Historic County | Code |
| Aberdeenshire | ABD |
| Angus (or Forfarshire) | ANS |
| Argyllshire | ARL |
| Ayrshire | AYR |
| Banffshire | BAN |
| Berwickshire | BEW |
| Bute | BUT |
| Caithness | CAI |
| Clackmannanshire | CLK |
| Dumfriesshire | DFS |
| Dunbartonshire | DNB |
| East Lothian (or Haddingtonshire) | ELN |
| Edinburghshire (see Midlothian) | --- |
| Elginshire (see Moray) | --- |
| Fife (Kingdom of) | FIF |
| Forfarshire (see Angus) | --- |
| Haddingtonshire (see East Lothian) | --- |
| Inverness-shire | INV |
| Kincardineshire | KCD |
| Kinross-shire | KRS |
| Kirkcudbrightshire | KKD |
| Lanarkshire | LKS |
| Linlithgowshire (see West Lothian) | --- |
| Midlothian (or Edinburghshire) | MLN |
| Moray (or Elginshire) | MOR |
| Nairnshire | NAI |
| Orkney Islands | OKI |
| Peeblesshire | PEE |
| Perthshire | PER |
| Renfrewshire | RFW |
| Ross & Cromarty | ROC |
| Roxburghshire | ROX |
| Selkirkshire | SEL |
| Shetland (or Zetland) Islands | SHI |
| Stirlingshire | STI |
| Sutherland | SUT |
| West Lothian (or Linlithgowshire) | WLN |
| Wigtownshire | WIG |
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Scotland," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland, accessed 23 March 2016.