FreeCEN Scotland Website Welcome to the home page for the Scotland Free Census Project

Welcome to the home page for the Scotland Free Census Project. This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century Scottish census returns. It is part of the larger UK Free Census Project (aka FreeCEN).

For more information on this project and how to get involved, please read the Project Questions and Answers.
** There are a number of useful documents for both volunteers and coordinators in the documentation area. **

Note: Database is now available! Uploaded returns can be searched in the UK FreeCEN database at: http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl.
If you need help searching the database, or would like more information on the transcriptions, please read the database search hints.

For specific information on a county, please select a county home page below or email the county coordinator.

If you are not a coordinator or a volunteer, why not think about becoming one? We need more volunteers now to help keep this project moving forward. Either contact me, , or the county coordinator given below. We provide full support.

Please keep in mind that most of our volunteers and coordinators also work full time and have personal priorities. We try to answer immediately but that isn't always possible. Please give us a week or so to answer. If we don't answer in that time, please contact the Scotland Coordinator for assistance.

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We would like to extend our gratitude and appreciation to all the People and Coordinators who have made the Scotland Free Census Project a success.

County and status page	Present coordinator	Coord. reqd	1841 Population (Approx)	1841 Records loaded	1851 Records loaded	1861 Records loaded	1871 Records loaded
Aberdeen			192,400	194,159	154,782	0	0
Angus			170,500	171,833	0
Argyll			97,400	101,339	5,232
Ayr			164,400	168,142	169,361
Banff			49,700	46,399	50,906	41,694
Berwick			34,400	0	0
Bute			15,696	15,696	16,538	16,141	16,753
Caithness			36,300	37,285	36,729	42,122	30,706
Clackmannan			19,200	15,036
Dumfries			72,800	72,960		0
Dunbarton			44,300	17,016
East Lothian	Coordinator Needed	*****	35,838	35,838	36,301	37,588
Fife			140,100	60,702	3,060	0
Inverness			97,800	93,201	64,602
Kincardine			33,100	33,515	34,943
Kinross			8,800	9,557	0	0	0
Kirkcudbright	&		41,100	0
Lanarkshire			427,000	411,569	168,246
Midlothian			225,500	225,256	123,588
Moray			35,000	37,134	41,074	8,551	3,131
Nairn			9,200	7,173	8,018	4,899	1,661
Orkney			30,500	26,747
Peebles			10,500	10,542	10,783	11,311	12,191
Perth			137,500	25,491
Renfrew			155,100	111,467	45,264	0
Ross & Cromarty			78,700	79,811	15,501
Roxburgh			46,000	45,434	51,569	24,414
Selkirk			8,000	8,125	9,781	10,407	14,334
Shetland	Coordinator Needed	*****	30,600	0
Stirling			82,100	79,633	71,668
Sutherland			24,800	11,240
West Lothian		*****	26,900	24,462
Wigtown			39,200	39,219	0
Scottish Shipping				Included in Parish Returns	Destroyed	3,086	1,969
	Totals			2,215,981	1,121,033	200,213	80,745
	Scotland (Approx)			2,620,200	2,888,700	3,062,300	3,360,000
				84.6%	38.8%	6.5%	2.4%
Total Records Online = 3,617,972

Coordinators shown in italics are acting county coordinator until a permanent one is recruited. Please contact them for more information.