Family History at the Archive
The Council hold various resources to help you trace your ancestors from Perthshire and Kinross-shire. An outline of these Council services can be found in our leaflet,
Family Trees & How to Grow Them (pdf.650k).
Council Archive
You can
visit the Archive to flesh out your family tree as well as using the basic genealogical tools at the Local Studies section of the AK Bell Library. Our Archive collections can fill in some gaps and help you find out more about your ancestors and their lives.
Many of our records list individuals and we have finding aids to help you locate them, including some indexes. Our main sources of genealogical information include Perth burgh's burial registers, land tax and valuation rolls, voters' rolls, school records, some poor rolls and miscellaneous legal records.
Our Family History Sources leaflet (pdf.492k) provides an outline of the Archive's range of records that genealogists may find useful.
Other routes to your roots are:
Local Studies AK Bell Library whose sources include the Old Parish Records (OPRs) and index for Perth and Kinross, census returns for the area, the British 1881 census and index and the Scottish 1891 census index as well as the International Genealogical Index (IGI)
The Registrar's Office which holds statutory records of births, deaths and marriages for Perth and Kinross from 1855.
Perth Museum & Art Gallery which may have pictures of your ancestors or where they lived or worked or objects associated with their lives
Bereavement Services which administer the council's burial grounds and crematorium. Records for cemeteries throughout Perth & Kinross are held here.
