Get started
Edinburgh Libraries has free resources to help you trace your family's history both from home and the library.
Get started at home
Talk to older members of your family.
Look for letters, certificates, photographs and medals.
Search the British Newspaper Archive in the library or the Scotsman Digital Archive from home for your family names.
Look on the Capital Collections and Edinburgh Collected websites for photographs and images.
Visit a library
To learn how to trace your family tree search the library catalogue and borrow a book on genealogy.
Search for relatives using Ancestry for free from within the library.
Visit the Central Library
The Central Library has official records and other sources of information.