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• Ancestry.com - Search Birth, Marriage & Death Records

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Dumfries-shire, Scotland, Extracted Parish Records

    Original source: Electronic databases created from a collection of historical parish registers. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records.

• Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland - Google Book Search

  This list is based on the printed Detailed List of the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland which was first published in 1872. It provides a basic reference guide for identifying the dates for the births/baptisms, marriages/proclamations of marriage and deaths/burials in the Old Parish Registers (OPRs) held by the General Register Office for Scotland.

• Parish Register Copies: Scotland - Dumfriesshire

  Parish register copies in the library of the Society of Genealogists as of December 1994.

• ScotlandsPeople

  The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland. A partnership between General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon enabled by Scotland Online. A pay-per-view database that includes Statutory Registers, Old Parish Registers, Census Records, Wills & Testaments.

  • Old Parish Registers

    The Old Parish Registers (OPR's) comprise the records of births & baptisms, banns & marriages and deaths & burials kept by individual parishes of the Established Church (Church of Scotland) before the introduction of civil registration in 1855.

    • OPR Banns & Marriages

    • OPR Births & Baptisms

  • Statutory Registers

    The official records of births, marriages and deaths in Scotland from 1 January 1855 when civil registration replaced the old system of registration by parishes of the Established Church (Church of Scotland).

    • SR Births

      Entries from the paper indexes to the civil registers of births for all Scotland, from 1855 until 1905.

    • SR Deaths

      Entries from the paper indexes to the civil registers of deaths for all Scotland, from 1855 until 1955.

    • SR Marriages

      Entries from the paper indexes to the civil registers of marriages for all Scotland, from 1855 until 1930.