Births and baptisms are the records that help you establish the date of birth of an individual. Prior to the start of civil registration there were only parish records. For dates after the start of civil registration it is often worth tracking down both a birth registration and the parish records as they both contain useful information.
| Classification: | Baptisms, Marriages, Parish Records |
| Title: | Argyll Data from Ancestry |
| Link: | Argyll Data from Ancestry |
| Description: | Argyll Data Collection from Ancestry |
| Extra Info: | Includes various parish register extracts. |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, Baptisms, Births |
| Title: | British Nationals Armed Forces Births and Baptisms |
| Link: | Search British Nationals Armed Forces Births and Baptisms |
| Description: | Search British Nationals Armed Forces Births and Baptisms |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Births, Marriages, Parish Records |
| Title: | Family Search Records Collection |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | Family Search Records Collection - Scottish Data |
| Extra Info: | Check the coverage for areas covered so far. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Burials / Cremations, Marriages, Monumental Inscriptions, Parish Records |
| Title: | Internet Archive |
| Link: | http://archive.org/ |
| Description: | Internet Archive |
| Extra Info: | Has many scanned books, including some parish registers. Click on texts and then search the archive. Note baptism and baptisms give different results. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Census, Deaths, Marriages, Parish Records, War Memorials & Other Memorials |
| Title: | Isle of Colonsay Family History |
| Link: | https://colonsay.org.uk/ |
| Description: | Isle of Colonsay Family History |
| Extra Info: | Click History, then Genealogy. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Burials / Cremations, Census, Marriages, Parish Records |
| Title: | Isle of Islay |
| Link: | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~steve/islay/data.ht... |
| Description: | Isle of Islay - Old Parish Records and More |
| Extra Info: | Baptisms and marriages from the 1600's to 1850's. Some census extracts for Islay (look under raw data index). |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Births, Deaths, Marriages |
| Title: | Malta Family History |
| Link: | https://web.archive.org/web/20180722210453/http://... |
| Description: | Malta Family History |
| Extra Info: | An archived copy of a site that is no longer active. The indexes still seems to be available. British men and women who were born, married or died in Malta. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Burials / Cremations, Marriages, Parish Records, Wills / Probate |
| Title: | Open Library |
| Link: | http://openlibrary.org/ |
| Description: | Open Library - Scanned Books Online |
| Extra Info: | Includes full images of many books of transcribed parish registers. Use the search facility and select e books only. Can also search within book text easily. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Census, Marriages, Monumental Inscriptions, Parish Records |
| Title: | Parish of Skipness, Argyllshire |
| Link: | http://sites.rootsweb.com/~sctcskip/ |
| Description: | Skipness Parish, Argyllshire |
| Extra Info: | Also includes some information for surrounding areas |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Burials / Cremations, Deaths, Marriages, Monumental Inscriptions, Obituaries, Parish Records |
| Title: | Prince Edward Island Register |
| Link: | https://www.islandregister.com/ |
| Description: | Prince Edward Island Register |
| Extra Info: | Includes a Belfast scrapbook with baptisms, natives of the Isle of Mull, some Devon parish records and much more. Quickest way to find these is to use the search facility. |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, Banns, Baptisms, Births, Burials / Cremations, Certificate Exchange, Deaths, Marriages |
| Title: | Scotland BDM Exchange |
| Link: | https://sctbdm.com |
| Description: | Scotland BDM Exchange - Births, Deaths, Marriages, Baptisms, Burials, Banns |
| Extra Info: | Easy to search. |
| Classification: | GRO BMD, Banns, Baptisms, Births, Burials / Cremations, Census, Deaths, Marriages, National, Parish Records, Wills / Probate |
| Title: | Scotland's People |
| Link: |  |
| Description: | Scotland's People |
| Extra Info: | Official Government Source of genealogical data for Scotland. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Burials / Cremations, Marriages, Parish Records, Wills / Probate |
| Title: | Scottish Genealogy Databases |
| Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20080602101740/http://w... |
| Description: | Scottish Genealogy Databases |
| Extra Info: | The site is no longer running but is archived. Also includes surname specific databases. If the site doesn't load clicking on the word impatient often works. |
| Classification: | Banns, Baptisms, Births, Burials / Cremations, Census, Deaths, Marriages, Parish Records |
| Title: | Scottish Indexes - Helping you trace your Scottish family tree |
| Link: | https://www.scottishindexes.com/ |
| Description: | Non-OPR Births/Baptisms, Banns/Marriages and Deaths/Burials, 1841, 1851, 1861 Census Indexes |
| Extra Info: | Full details of the coverage can be found on their Record Sets page. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Births, Census, Marriages, Parish Records, Wills / Probate |
| Title: | Ted Larson's Isle of Islay Genealogy Data Website |
| Link: | http://web.archive.org/web/20080405035838/http:/fr... |
| Description: | Ted Larson's Isle of Islay Genealogy Data Website |
| Extra Info: | This is an archived copy of the site which is no longer available. May take a few moments to load. Includes early Islay wills, baptisms, marriages, census and more. |
| Classification: | Baptisms, Burials / Cremations, Census, Monumental Inscriptions, War Memorials & Other Memorials |
| Title: | Wakefield Family History Sharing Website |
| Link: | http://www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk/index.shtml |
| Description: | Wakefield Family History Sharing Website |
| Extra Info: | Scroll down the page for census transcriptions, and other indexes. |
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