For questions about ancestors and records in Scotland. Also tag the county if the question is specific to that county.
Scotland is a country, now part of the United Kingdom, located in the British Isles. It is derived from an ancient kingdom (established 843) with a long parliamentary history (from 1293) that entered Union with England in 1707.
The historic counties of Scotland as they existed from 1890 to 1974 are:
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus (Forfarshire)
- Argyll
- Ayrshire
- Banffshire
- Berwickshire
- Bute
- Caithness
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfriesshire
- dunbartonshire
- east-lothian (previously Haddingtonshire)
- Fife
- Inverness-shire
- Kincardineshire
- Kinross-shire
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Lanarkshire
- Midlothian (previously Edinburgh)
- Moray (previously Elginshire)
- Nairnshire
- Orkney
- Peeblesshire
- Perthshire
- Renfrewshire
- Ross and Cromarty
- Roxburghshire
- Selkirkshire
- Shetland
- Stirlingshire
- Sutherland
- West Lothian (previously Linlithgowshire)
- Wigtownshire
