A Veritable Forest of Trees, of the Family Variety

This is the General Register House at the East End of Princes Street, designed by the famous Robert Adam and built between 1774 and 1789. It contain all the paper records pertaining to Births, Deaths and Marriages (also all the census records from 1841) taken place in Scotland. Inside there is Centre for Family History which is incomparable in the rest of the UK in that all the records are held in one depository. Although I must have spent a small fortune over the years doing my family history I have only spent one day in this building, preferring to check my family tree online, or even at the building round the back of this most impressive example of Georgian architecture which houses the National Archives of Scotland.

This was another View From The Upper Deck, courtesy of a No. 22