Research
The Society will undertake research in Scottish records on all aspects of your ancestry provided we have a good starting point for tracing your family tree.

We need enough information to identify correctly the person who is our starting point: this is generally a birth, marriage or death record giving the parents' names; of course, the more information you can provide the better. We can trace back in time or forward to the present day;

Two of our most successful searches were a family of tenant farmers in Falkirk traced back to 1605 and a family of shipmasters in Dysart going back to 1670.

Many of our searches go back to the 1700s but of course, due to the lack of records and the voluntary nature of registration prior to 1855, sometimes we can only trace back as far as the early 1800s.

We will however use all possible resources to find out as much as we can about your family tree.