Stiffs and Stones
CILIPS ConferenceJune 2009
Elizabeth Carmichael
Locscotwww.slainte.org.uk/cilips/sigs/locscot
Old Parish Registers - Deaths
• Church of Scotland
• Earliest from 1553
• Collected in by Register General in 1854
• Very incomplete holdings survive
• Now on Scotland’s People
• Microfilm in libraries
Cemeteries
• Kirkyards filled up
• Industrialisation
• Other denominations
• Almost all now in the care of local authorities
Interment Registers
• Good amount of detail
• Chronological
• Lair registers
Monumental Inscriptions
• Scottish Genealogy Society
• Surveys of burying grounds
• Increasing coverage
• Link generations
Other records
• Newspapers
• Local histories – libraries
• Archives
• Websites
Stiffs and Stones
CILIPS ConferenceJune 2009
Elizabeth CarmichaelLocscot
www.slainte.org.uk/cilips/sigs/locscot
