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Guide to '''Selkirkshire County ancestry, family history and genealogy:''' birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.   
Guide to '''Selkirkshire County ancestry, family history and genealogy:''' birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.   
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==History==
==History==
Selkirkshire is an inland county in the south of Scotland, bounded on the north by the counties of Peebles and Edinburgh, on the south by Dumfriesshire, on the east by Roxburghshire, and on the west by Peeblesshire. It is 27 miles in length from south-west to north-east and 16 miles in breadth comprising an area of 263 square miles or 168,320 acres.  
Selkirkshire is an inland county in the south of Scotland, bounded on the north by the counties of Peebles and Edinburgh, on the south by Dumfriesshire, on the east by Roxburghshire, and on the west by Peeblesshire. It is 27 miles in length from south-west to north-east and 16 miles in breadth comprising an area of 263 square miles or 168,320 acres.