Help and Advice.

[SutherlandFamily]

Hi everyone. I am new so please forgive me.

I am thinking of looking up my family history (Sutherland Family) and i would like to know where to go and find out or is there some website i can find out. I would like to know about the Sutherland family i really only know the very basics.

I Know nothing of my grand parents as for some reason my father doesn't want to talk about the past.

What i would like to know, where i can look up my family history, what information i would need to look up my fathers side and what history i could find out.

Thank you everyone, sorry i am new so please forgive me.

[emanday]

Hi there,

Your best place to start is the Scotlands People site on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

It is a pay to view site, but their Scottish records are absolutely unbeatable.

If you have need of any help at all, all the Talking Scot members try our best to point you in the right direction.

Good Luck.

[LesleyB]

Hi Sutherlandfamily
and welcome to TalkingScot

You need to start with yourself. Your own birth certificate. If you were born in Scotland, and if your parents were married at the time of your birth, the marriage date will be given....that is your next port of call. Your parents marriage will give their parents and then you can find their marriages and so on, along with chasing up births and deaths for these people as you move backwards in time.

As you are in Edinburgh, I'd suggest a session at the Scotlands People Centre in Princes Street, opposite Waverley Steps, where all these records are held.
http://www.scotlandspeoplehub.gov.uk/

There are lots of good getting started articles on the web too.
e.g. http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/conte ... px?r=551&1

Best wishes
Lesley

[susieq]

Hiya,

As Lesley has said if your able to why not pop into the new Scotland's people centre in Edinburgh, behind the horse on Princes Street. They do free two hour taster sessions, from 10am-12am and 2pm-4pm daily, that might be a start?

Good luck
Susan.