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Scottish Collection: Edinburgh and Fife

  This week I continue our summary of what's currently available to help locate ancestors who died in Scotland by listing locations covered on our database from the capital city of Edinburgh, and the kingdom of Fife.

Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket, photographed by George Washington Wilson in 1865 


Edinburgh 
  • Calton Old Cemetery
  • Canongate Churchyard
  • New Calton Burial Ground
  • Seafield Cemetery
  • Seafield Crematorium
  • Warriston Crematorium
Fife
  • Abbotshall Churchyard
  • Abdie Churchyard
  • Abercrombie Old Churchyard
  • Aberdour Old and New Cemetery
  • Aberdour St Fillan's Churchyard
  • Anstruther Cemetery
  • Anstruther East and West Churchyards
  • Auchterderran Churchyard and Bowhill Cemetery
  • Auchtermuchty Church and Cemetery
  • Auchtertool Churchyard and Cemetery
  • Ballingry Churchyard and Cemetery
  • Beath New Cemetery
  • Beath Old Cemetery
  • Bennochy Cemetery
  • Boarhills Churchyards
  • Burntisland Cemetery
  • Burntisland Churchyards of Kirkton and St Columbas
  • Cairneyhill Churchyard
  • Cameron Church Cemetery
  • Carnbee Churchyard
  • Ceres Church Cemetery
  • Crail Church and Cemetery
  • Crombie Churchyard
  • Creich Churchyard
  • Culross Churchyard
  • Culross West Kirk and Culross Abbey
  • Cults Church and Cemetery
  • Cupar Churchyard and St James Cemetery
  • Dairsie Church and Extension
  • Dalgety Churchyard
  • Douglas Bank Cemetery
  • Dunbog Churchyard
  • Dunino Churchyard
  • East Wemyss MacDuff (Parts 1 & 2)
  • Elie Churchyard
  • Falkland Burial Grounds
  • Flisk Churchyard
  • Ferryport On Craig Churchyard
  • Ferryport On Craig Cemetery
  • Forgan Churchyard
  • Hayfield Cemetery
  • Hillend Cemetery
  • Inverkeithing Cemetery
  • Kemback Churchyard
  • Kennoway Cemetery
  • Kilconquhar Churchyard & Cemetery
  • Kilmany Church
  • Kilrenny Churchyard
  • Kinghorn Churchyard
  • Kingsbarns Churchyard
  • Kingskettle Church and Cemetery
  • Kirkcaldy Old Kirkyard
  • Leslie Kirk on the Green Churchyard and Cemetery
  • Leuchars Cemetery and Churchyard (St Athernase)
  • Lochgelly Cemetery
  • Logie Churchyard
  • Methilmill Cemetery
  • Monimail Old and New Cemeteries
  • Moonzie Churchyard
  • Newburgh Cemetery
  • Newburn Cemetery
  • Northall Cemetery Markinch and Mitton of Balgonie Church
  • Pathhead Churchyard and Nether Street Burial Ground
  • Pittenweem Cemetery, Fife
  • Rosyth Old Churchyard, Fife
  • Saline Old Churchyard and Cemetery, Fife
  • Scoonie Cemetery, Fife
  • St Adrians, West Wemyss, Fife
  • St Andrews Eastern Cemetery
  • St Marys on the Sea Churchyard, East Wemyss, Fife
  • St Monans Cemetery, Fife
  • St Monans Churchyard, Fife
  • Strathmiglo Churchyard and Cemetery, Fife
  • Tulliallan Churchyard, Fife
  • Vicarsford Cemetery, Fife

Photograph by Cornell University Library (original author: George Washington Wilson (1823-1893)) - Edinburgh Castle from the Grass Market, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7562953

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