Family tree question - Scotland...?

This is the one you need for Scotland, its an excellent site.

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

its an excellent site. I see what you mean about the cut off year for bmd information, below I have posted the links to two more sites that might be of interest to you, and three addresses, the third one is probably the best one for you to contact they have birth records up to 1992.

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/

http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/deaths.htm

Aberdeen FHS, 164 King St., Aberdeen, AB24 5BD, has GRO BMD indexes from 1837 to 1900 (1927 in Births) as well as overseas records. Phone: 01224 646323.

Edinburgh Central Library, reference section has the GRO BMD indexes from 1837 to 1983. It's free to use but many pages from the early years are unreadable.

General Register Office for Scotland, New Register House, Edinburgh, EH1 3YT, has GRO BMD indexes from 1837 to 1992 as well as overseas records. Phone: 0131 334 0380.

Hope this helps.

http://www.cyndislist.com/beginner.htm

It seems you may also benefit from some general information on how to start the process. No matter where you are, there is a basic standard of START from the recent and work back. There is also a possible misconception that more recent records are easier to find. This isn't always true, because of the reality that 'recent' records might involve living persons, and privacy rights.

So.. all of us starting out, need to work as much as possible with available family members to find names and dates within the last century (as a rough analogy). Those can be from such things as newspaper obituaries, etc. Both the US and UK allow access to vital docuements to AUTHORIZED people. Your mother should be able to order records about her own parents, for example. They may or may not be online.

Just as a very broad rule.. once you have worked back 100 yrs or so, the records normally open up. It's just the getting going part.

by the way, cyndislist above is an excellent collection of resouces. You can type scotland in the search box to see what may be out there for Scotland (or other places, if those become part of your research).

I did a yahoo search for "genealogy Scotland" and got lots of possible sites for you to investigate, including

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/genealogy.ht...

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

and many more. I do not know if they are all free sites, or if you have to pay a membership fee first

Try typing your name into Google and see what you get.