Location of historical records

Sheriffdoms
Historical records of sheriff courts pass to the National Archives of Scotland. For further details go to the National Archives of Scotland website or see Cecil Sinclair, Tracing Scottish Local History (HMSO, 1994) or Cecil Sinclair, Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors (HMSO, 1990). The following sheriff courts operated in Clackmannan:
Alloa

JP court records
Justice of the Peace records for Clackmannanshire are held by the National Archives of Scotland, but for information about recently deposited JP records contact the Clackmannanshire Libraries Archives & Walter Murray Local Studies Collection.

Register of sasines and sasine abridgements
TheIn the Registers of Sasines, entries for Clackmannanshire appear in the General Register of Sasines and the Particular Register of Sasines for Stirlingshire etc, held by the National Archives of Scotland (RS.58-59). Sasine abridgements for the county are held by the National Archives of Scotland for 1781-1974. Clackmannanshire Libraries Archives & Walter Murray Local Studies Collection holds an incomplete set of abridgements for 1869-1900 and 1931-1990, as well as indexes of persons for 1911-1930.

Other records
Over the next two years the SCAN website through its Online Catalogues and Knowledge Base will become the definitive guide to the location of historical records relating to places in Scotland. At present the best online guide to the location of historical records is the National Register of Archives' ARCHON website.