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Old Parish Registers

For members of the Church of Scotland, church registers of baptisms, marriages and burials survive, often from late 16th and the 17th or 18th centuries. Adherents of the various Scottish Secession Churches are seldom included in these registers. Generally they contain births and/or christenings, marriages, deaths and/or burials although often entries were poorly recorded.

Search this Free Resource for the locations completed by the vounteers.

Index to Old Parish Registers

The Index to the Old Parish Registers (The County Index) is a surnames index to marriages and christenings, in two separate files, in the 900 or so parishes within Scotland. Dates range from 1553 to 1854 depending on the parish. The index sometimes indicates the exact frame number for the entry sought allowing speedy access to the full details in the (OPR). Indexes to all or selected counties in Scotland are held at various locations:-

The Family History Centres (All)

History and Glasgow Rooms at the Mitchell Library (All)

General Register Office for Scotland (All)

Glasgow Genealogy Centre (All)

Scottish Genealogy Society Library (All)

Carnegie Library (Ayrshire)

The Dick Institute (Ayrshire)

The Baird Institute (Ayrshire)

Marr Education Resource Centre (Ayrshire)

Local History Library Ardrossan holds ( Argyll, Ayrshire, Bute, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire)

David Wills has an excellent website containing details of the Births,

Marriages and Deaths information available together with Film Numbers

at the LDS Centres.

CLICK HERE to open up a new window with these pages on David's website.

Ayrshire OPR Microfiche

Ayrshire OPR Films

Sources of Early Parish Registers

Microfilm copies of the registers are held at various locations.

History and Glasgow Rooms at the Mitchell Library holds the registers for Glasgow and for the parishes of Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire.

Glasgow City Archives hold registers for Argyll and Bute.

The Dick Institute holds all Ayrshire Parishes.

The Baird Institute holds selected Ayrshire Parishes.

Ardrossan Local History Library holds the following Old Parish Registers:-

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