ASGRA Services

Many of our clients are interested in tracing their Scottish ancestors. The search for family history is a fascinating occupation and everyone who is interested should try to draw up a Family Tree themselves. Recently the arrival of the General Register Office of Scotland's site  www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk  has enabled family historians throughout the world to access civil registers and census returns, along with the indexes to the parish registers of the Church of Scotland and testamentary material (wills) up to 1901. Using this site can, however, prove expensive and time-consuming. You may also have encountered difficulties or need access to post-1901 records. That is where a professional ASGRA genealogist can help.

Other clients require research to be undertaken on specific subjects or in specific records held in the National Archives of Scotland, local and university archives or the Manuscripts Department of the National Archives of Scotland. Many archives now have online listings of most of their holdings. By far the largest is the National Archives of Scotland - www.nas.gov.uk . Members of ASGRA can research a specific subject for you, give advice on the relevance of a sources, and, where necessary, transcribe or translate older documents.

Here are just some of the services we offer:

• Family trees compiled
• Searches of censuses, civil and parish registers
  
• Problem solving
  
• Searches for living relatives
  
• Finding additional information about your Scottish forebears
  
• Legal searches
  
• Adoption cases
  
• Historical research
  
• Histories of properties
  
• Transcriptions of older documents
  
• Translations from Latin