ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk - the official government / National Records of Scotland genealogy index/images portal - has relaunched.  A major change is that it is now free to search indexes, and you only pay to download images.

There's a search form on the home page that lets you search across all records in one go. Searching for a name is then broken down further into numbers found in specific records like the various categories of statutory registers (e.g. births, civil partnerships, deaths, divorce, marriages), census returns (1841-1911), church registers (Church of Scotland births, marriages and deaths, as well as Catholic registers and other church records), valuation rolls (various years 1855-1930) and legal records (like wills and testaments). All of these index entries can then be viewed for free. You only pay to download any images you buy.

ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk - the official government / National Records of Scotland genealogy index/images portal - has relaunched.  A major change is that it is now free to search indexes, and you only pay to download images.

There's a search form on the home page that lets you search across all records in one go. Searching for a name is then broken down further into numbers found in specific records like the various categories of statutory registers (e.g. births, civil partnerships, deaths, divorce, marriages), census returns (1841-1911), church registers (Church of Scotland births, marriages and deaths, as well as Catholic registers and other church records), valuation rolls (various years 1855-1930) and legal records (like wills and testaments). All of these index entries can then be viewed for free. You only pay to download any images you buy.