Did your ancestors buy, sell, inherit, or transfer property in Scotland? Explore this national register of Sasines to lead the way to the documents and deeds that could tell you more about their life and social status.
Did your ancestors buy, sell, inherit, or transfer property in Scotland? Explore this national register of Sasines to lead the way to the documents and deeds that could tell you more about their life and social status.
This index will lead you to Sasine documents that exist in archives around Scotland. You will find inside the following details:
Names
Relations and marital status of those contained
The date of the recording of the Sasine
The volume and Folio of the Sasine
The county or Sheriffdom in which the transfer of property took place
The digital images in this collection are presented in PDF form. Searching through a PDF can be different from searching through other record sets.
The search feature uses direct search: it will only search for the exact words you write in the search field. For example, if you search for John Smith, the results will give you pages with John and Smith.
All search results will bring you to the page on which your search word has been found and not to an individual transcript. You can then read through the page to find your result.
To search for your ancestor by their name, write it as it would appear in the original record; for example, if your relative was known as Will, it is likely that the name used in official documents was William.
If you are unable to find your relative on your first search, you can try different name variations; for example, if your search for William Smith yields zero results, try searching for W Smith.
Page numbers correlate with the individual pages of the images rather than the page numbers printed in the publication. Therefore, page one pertains to the first page of a volume.