We're here to search for the documentation that is not available to you in your home country. We work on your behalf... the way you would... if you were here.
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| Scottish Genealogy | |
| Welcome! We are a small but growing genealogy company situated between Glasgow and Edinburgh,
specializing in tracing Scottish ancestry. We also have contacts with companies in England and Ireland, should your
family tree lead in this direction. We're here to search for the documentation that is not available to you in your home country. We work on your behalf... the way you would... if you were here. |
Kirstie Mackay Holt trading as The Tree House
Library School, Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen, Scotland (1977-79)
Genealogy Major at Ricks College, Idaho, USA (1980) including practicals held at Salt Lake City Genealogy Library
Member of The Scottish Genealogy Society
Genealogist to the Clan Henderson Society of Great Britain, as appointed by Col. Henderson-Laird
Certificate in Scottish Family Studies, Stirling University (1996-97)
DOING YOUR OWN RESEARCH ?
Are you stuck in your own research? We'd be happy to fill in any blanks. Many of our clients carry out their own research but run into problems due to limited availability of records in their own country. We have access to the full range of Old Parish Records and Civil Registration Certificates, as well as Kirk Sessions, Catholic and Free Church Records, Court Records etc.OUR SERVICES
General Research:
If you know the name of the ancestor who emigrated from Scotland plus birth, marriage or parentage details we can start researching. Depending on the quality of the details, we should be able to find them in the records and so begin the process of tracing your Scottish ancestry even further back. Maybe you would like to find out if you have any living relatives in Scotland? We can research siblings who stayed behind, up to the present day.
New Register House |
National Archives |
Regional Records |
| Civil Registration Births, Deaths and Marriages from the present day back to 1855. |
Other Denominations Non Church of Scotland parish records. |
Local History Libraries Contains a lot of useful information that may not be available anywhere else. |
| Old Parish Records The Church of Scotland's parish records of christenings, proclamations & mort cloths for pre 1855. |
Kirk Sessions Minutes of church discipline relating to illegitimacy, fornication, Irregular Marriages etc. Open your family skeleton cupboard! |
County Archives Various records the most useful being the Poor Relief Records, |
| Census Records 1841-1891 |
Court Records All manner of legal documents from deeds to trial transcripts as well as Wills and Inventories, who left what and to whom. |
Family History Societies Voluntary organisations with specialised local knowledge for each county. |
| Tenancy Records and Estate Papers Rent Rolls and Lists of tenants. Militia, Fencible and Volunteer Records, Parish lists of Militia Liable Men (1790-1830). |
Sasines and Land Records
Did your ancestor own any land? |
We can also supply reproduction Victorian maps from the 1850s for every parish in Scotland. At last you'll be able to find the farm or hamlet named on a certificate or census return. They are very detailed; one inch to the mile and printed on non wood map litho. We also have a range of burgh town plan maps from the 1820's which contain land and house owners names. See our Map Page for the list of maps available and prices.
FEES
Birth/Death/Marriage
If the year and place or parish are known: 15 minute/10 year
Search/Copy/Email of
information from a civil registration certificate (post 1855) or Old Parish
Record (pre 1855 Church of Scotland record) will cost £4.00 (approx 7 US
Dollars at current exchange rate).
For
common names in a city, e.g. Birth of John M(a)cDonald in Glasgow, year
uncertain, the search may have to be done on a "time taken basis" ; as
many same name certificates may have to be checked in order to find the correct
one. This will cost £4.00
per 15 minute search. It does not take too long if there are scanned images
available for your time period. It may still be found within the first 15 minute
search.
Photocopies
of the digital image can be provided post inclusive for a further £1
for the under noted time periods. The photocopies are research aids, not legal
documents, so cannot be used in place of a legal extract, e.g. for passport
purposes etc.
Births
1855-1903
Marriages
1855-1928
Deaths
1855-1953
Outwith
these years a full extract has to be purchased if a paper copy is required, at a
post inclusive further fee of £6.
Census
Returns 1841-71 will be checked for £4.00 if the address is know,
and £4.00 per 15 minutes search if only the parish is known.
A
check will first be made with the register house library in case there is an
index available for your required parish. No photocopy is available yet for
these years, but should become available soon.
Census
Returns for 1881 are available on CD Rom at many libraries, but if you
have had no luck, then the register house computer index can be checked for £2
as it often turns up names not found on the CD Rom. No photocopy is available as
yet.
Census
Returns 1891 & 1901 which are on a computer index will be searched
for £4 and a digital image photocopy provided, post inclusive.
Payment & Ordering Info
Kirstie Mackay Holt
Postal : 3 Gordon Court, Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland, EH52 5HX, UK.
Fax : (+ 44) 1506 500399
Payments : Visa ; MasterCard ; Pound Sterling Money Order ; Any currency in cash for small searches; Personal cheques in any currency [please add £7 for exchange fee].
