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Fàilte ,welcome to the Scotland portal !
What can you do here?
- Ask questions
- Collaborate on your research
- Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.
- Problem finding an ancestors , open a discussion here and we all try to help
- Start your own related project.
- Add your profiles.
- Start or take part in a discussion.
In this forum, we encourage everyone with links in Scotland to communicate and explore a common ancestry. You'll find links and sources in the discussion section of this portal that will help you in your search. If you see a particular genealogical challenge, or if you have interesting information to share, simply start a discussion about it.
In order to facilitate your search, we have opened sub-portals for England ,Wales and Northern Ireland
This is a collaborative project, so please participate and add any useful information you have that will help others in their quest!
Related Projects
- Counties of Scotland - United Kingdom
- Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards - United Kingdom
- Scottish Clans - Main Page
- SCOTLAND, United Kingdom - Place Projects
- Scots Abroad
- Whisky Distilleries and Families - Scotland
Clan and family projects on Geni: 
- Clan Abercrombie
- Clan Adam
- Clan Agnew
- Clan Anderson
- Clan Anstruther
- Clan Arbuthnott
- Clan Armstrong
- Clan Auchinleck
- Clan Baillie
- Clan Baird
- Clan Buchanan
- Clan Cameron
- Clan Cochrane
- Clan Crawford
- Cunningham Family
- Clan Dalzell
- Clan Douglas
- Clan Forbes
- Clan Gordon
- Clan Grant
- Clan Gunn
- Clan Hamilton
- Clan Hay
- Clan MacAlpine
- Clan MacArthur
- Clan MacDowall
- Clan MacKenzie
- Clan Maclean chiefs of Scotland
- Clan Matheson
- Clan Montgomery
- Middles Clan from Kincardine
- Peter of Crossbasket
- Ralston, Scottish name
- Clan Ross
- Clan Rutherford
- Clan Ruthven 112
- Clan Shaw
- Clan Sinclair
Historic Houses/Castles etc. of Scotland
Projects have been set up for Historic Castles, Mansions, houses etc. of Scotland based on the historic Counties. If this interests you and you would like to help develop them please contact one of the collaborating curators (Anne-Marie, June or Terry).
- Aberdeenshire Now includes Aberdeen City and Historic Kincardineshire
- Angus Now includes Dundee City
- Argyllshire Now includes Historical Buteshire
- Ayrshire √ Now East and North Ayrshire
- Banffshire Now split between Moray and Aberdeenshire councils.
- Berwickshire Now part of Scottish Borders
- Buteshire Now included in Argyll and Bute
- Caithness Now part of Highland
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries-shire Now Dumfries and Galloway
- Dunbartonshire Now East and West Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian - (Haddingtonshire)
- Edinburghshire Now Midlothian
- Fife/Fifeshire
- Inverness-shire Now part of Highland
- Kincardineshire Now included in Aberdeenshire
- Kinross-shire Now Perth and Kinross
- Kirkcudbrightshire Now Dumfries and Galloway
- Lanarkshire Now North and South Lanarkshire - Clydesdale is an archaic name for Lanarkshire,
- Linlithgowshire Now West Lothian
- Moray, Morayshire or Elginshire
- Nairn or Nairnshire Now part of Highland
- Orkney
- Peebles-shire Now part of Scottish Borders
- Perthshire Now Perth and Kinross also part of Stirling
- Renfrewshire
- Ross and Cromarty Now part of Highland
- Roxburghshire Now part of Scottish Borders
- Selkirkshire Now part of Scottish Borders
- Shetland
- Stirlingshire Now Stirling which includes part of Perthshire
- Sutherland Now part of Highland
- Wigtownshire Now Dumfries and Galloway
Related projects on Geni:
- Counties of the United Kingdom - Scotland
- Scotland heritage
- All Kings of Scotland
- High Stewards of Scotland
- The House of Alpin
- Peerage of Scotland, England and Ireland
- Stewart surname -page
- The House of Dunkeld: Kings of Scotland 1034-1290
- Kings of-Scotland House-of-Stewart 1371 -1567
- Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards - United Kingdom
- Medieval Scotland
Links and sources
Historical profiles on Geni:
Counties of Scotland
ScotlandsPlaces is a free resource that lets you explore thousands of records about Scotland simply by searching for a place name, clicking on a map or typing in your postcode. Search results bring together three national collections so that you can easily find maps, photographs and written records about your chosen place.