The originals of these records (old parish registers and statutory registers of births, deaths and marriages) are all official documents held in Edinburgh by the General Register Office for Scotland (http:/www.gro-scotland.gov.uk), and are © British Crown copyright. You are however welcome to use any of the transcribed information on the http://www.oocities.org/scotborder/index site for private, non-commercial purposes.

The information is not complete and does not purport to be a complete transcription of all the entries in a particular county of Scotland.

The information was transcribed on to the http://www.oocities.org/scotborder/index website from copies of the originals.

Scottish statutory registers can be amended and corrected at any time if the Registrar General finds later that the information in the entry is wrong, even if this is discovered many years later. It is possible that some of the information has been corrected, and an entry shown here may differ from the present corrected official entry in the registers.

By accessing the Scots Origins website http://www.origins.net you can search in the indexes to a comprehensive set of historical official records held by the General Register Office for Scotland. The explanatory pages are free, and thereafter interactive searching on the Scots Origins site for an individual entry is on a 'pay-per-view' basis. A paper copy of an official extract, such as a birth or marriage certificate, may be ordered electronically for delivery by ordinary post at the statutory fee. The earliest record on the Scots Origins site is dated 1553. You cannot search on the Origins site for ‘recent’ register entries (births and marriages less than 100 years ago, and deaths less than 75 years ago), so it cannot generally be used to look up living persons.