Ancestral voices join 21st century as public archives go online
The advent of internet technology has revolutionised genealogical research over the past decade or so, and while Scotland can already boast the best-maintained public records and research facilities of any country in the world, these are in the process of being enhanced even further with the construction of the £1.6million Scottish Family History Centre, due to open at the beginning of 2007, which will link the two essential resource centres of General Register House and New Register House, at the east end of Princes Street, to create the world’s first “family history campus”, with a “one-stop” single point of archive access to more than 40 million digitised records. for more click here
