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Scotland

Guide to Scotland ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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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., 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.

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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