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Location of Historical Records

Sheriffdoms
The records of Dumfries sheriff court are held by the National Archives of Scotland. For further details go to the National Archives of Scotland website or see Guide to the National Archives of Scotland (HMSO, 1996); Cecil Sinclair, Tracing Scottish Local History (HMSO, 1994); or Cecil Sinclair, Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors (HMSO, 1990).

JP court records
Justice of the Peace records for Dumfriesshire are held by the National Archives of Scotland, apart from two volumes of quarter session records 1763-1815, in the Ewart Library, Dumfries.

Register of sasines and sasine abridgements
Registers of sasines for Dumfries and Stewartries of Kirkcudbright and Annandale are held by the National Archives of Scotland. Sasine abridgements for the county of Dumfries, 1781-1970 are held by the National Archives of Scotland, and by Dumfries & Galloway Archives for 1781-1970 (with small gaps). Published indexes for the period 1617-1780 are held by Dumfries & Galloway Archives.

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.