SCOTLAND

Rather than using the ScotlandsPeople website at from home, it may be considerably cheaper to visit the), or one of the family history centres in Alloa, Glasgow, Hawick, Inverness or Kilmarnock offering access to the same database (see ). Home access to ScotlandsPeople costs £7.50 for 30 credits, equivalent to £1.50 per birth, marriage, death, census or parish record, but a visit to a centre provides unlimited daily access for £15. This will be especially helpful if you have an ancestor with a common name, and otherwise risk ordering records for the wrong individual.