Search Scotland, Modern and Civil Marriages 1855-2019
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Do you have relatives that married in Scotland? Discover the details of their wedding in this growing national collection of Scottish records compiled from a number of official and unofficial sources.
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The detail contained in these records can vary, but you should find a combination of the following information:
- Title
- First Name(s)
- Surname
- Date of marriage
- Year of marriage
- Marriage venue
- Place of marriage
- County of marriage
- Spouse forename
- Spouse surname
- Usual residence
- Marriage registration district
- Reference number
- Additional notes
- Original record source
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This growing set of millions of records has been compiled from a number of sources, including local government indexes held by various councils and archives, volunteer & local family history society transcriptions, modern records and civil registers. Expect the collection to grow over the coming months as further records are collated, to create the last word in discovering your modern Scottish family.
Scottish Civil registration was introduced on 1 January 1855, under the direction of the Registrar General for Scotland. Under this new system, every birth was to be compulsorily recorded and the entries were kept at New Register House, Edinburgh.
Original copies of civil registers can also be seen in person in Edinburgh, and through the National Records of Scotland's ScotlandsPeople website.
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