National Records of Scotland

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General Register House
New Register House

National Records of Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic Cofnodion Gwladol yr Alban ) is an authority based in the Scottish capital Edinburgh . It was created on April 1, 2011 from the merger of the General Register Office for Scotland with the Scottish National Archives , whose areas of responsibility it also took over. They are each limited to the area of ​​Scotland. The other parts of the UK have their own National Archives, for England and Wales The National Archives and Northern Ireland , the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland .

National Records of Scotland is generally responsible for collecting, storing, processing and publishing information on the history and people of Scotland. This includes in detail

  • the implementation of the censuses carried out every ten years and their preparation
  • keeping the civil status register, i.e. the registration of births, marriages, divorces, adoptions and deaths
  • the retention of patient data by the National Health Service
  • archiving historical documents and artifacts

The headquarters of National Records of Scotland is the General Register House , and the neighboring New Register House is also open to the public . In addition to three other locations in the city, there is also one in the Cairnsmore House in Dumfries . The authority, which falls within the Scottish Cabinet as of 2018, is the responsibility of the Minister of Education, Fiona Hyslop , by Tim Ellis, who is also Registrar General for Scotland and Keeper of the Records of Scotland. To support genealogy , National Records of Scotland operates a separate website called ScotlandsPeople.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Records of Scotland . Scottish government press release on the foundation of March 11, 2011, accessed on August 14, 2018

Coordinates: 55 ° 57 ′ 13.6 "  N , 3 ° 11 ′ 21.5"  W.