57,000 historic records from the Perthshire area of Scotland were made available by the website Ancestry.co.uk this week.
The records date from 1566 to 1901 and cover records from school admissions and surveys of the local militia.
They include the Perthshire School Registers of Admissions and Withdrawals, which contains the names of around 75,000 pupils covering the period 1869 to 1901. Each record typically contains the name and date of birth of the child, their home address and notes on their a
