Research Questions

Are you too short of time to research
your family history yourself?
We will carry out a thorough and detailed investigation of the branches of your family tree which interest you. We will make use of all available sources of information, some obvious and accessible, others less so. Our clients generally choose to start with the paternal line of their family.

For a sample report and sample family tree please click here. Once the paternal ancestral line has been traced then we would be happy to start on a maternal line.

We will be pleased however to do whatever research you wish, provided you can give us enough information to identify correctly the person whose genealogy you wish traced in Scottish records.

After 1855 in Scotland it became compulsory to record Births, Marriages and Deaths and from this year onwards Scottish marriage and death records give the name of both the parents of the persons concerned.

In the case of people born before 1855 we need to know the ancestor's date of birth and parents' names - for example, more information is needed than just 'John Robertson, born in the 1820s in Perthshire', as the OPR indexes will show that there are 112 possibilities!

Our report is in narrative form but we also include in our package, if available, digital copies of some records of birth entries (1855 - 1904), marriage entries (1855 - 1929), death entries (1855 - 1954) and of 1871, 1891 and 1901 census entries. We also search for wills and testaments and pre-1901 testaments are available as digital copies - view a sample testament.

We also consult published lists of tombstone inscriptions and entries from the Statistical Accounts of Scotland which give fascinating details about all the parishes in Scotland during the 1790s and the 1840s. See our Links page.