Family History at the Archive
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.
Digging for information
Our
Family History Sources leaflet (pdf.492k)
provides an outline of the Archive's range of records that
genealogists may find useful.
Other useful tools are the
searchable databases which are regularly updated by the
Friends of P&KC Archive. Information about individuals
can be found in the Perth burgh burial and Militia collections
databases and in Perthshire People & Kinross-shire Kin.
The Threiplands People database lists individuals and can point you
to relevant records within MS169 The Threipland Papers
collection
NEW
If you can't visit the Archive in person, our School Registers of Admission and Withdrawals,
Perthshire, Scotland, 1869-1902 are now available on Ancestry.co.uk. These are
normally pay-per-view, but are free if you access the site from one
of the libraries in Perth & Kinross.
Other routes to your roots
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,
Keekin for Kin (pdf.2764k)
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 from 1855 for the whole of
Scotland
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.
