The Digitising Scotland project digitised the historic vital events records (births, marriages and deaths) for people living in Scotland (1855-1973). This project is now closed.

Prior to The Digitising Scotland Project, these records were kept as indexed images accessible from Scotland’s People. To extract data a researcher first had to search for an individual record by name and then manually transcribe the required information, such as cause of death, occupation, etc. This rendered any large-scale research project impossible – a situation that the Digitising Scotland project has changed.