You never know where you might find a valuable clue!

Last month ScotlandsPeople released a new set of records, namely Scottish prison registers held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). This first set of records made available includes admissions to Perth (Scotland) Prison between 1867-1879 and 1888-1921 and can be searched for free here. The images can be viewed and downloaded for a small fee.

In her March 24th blog posting, Claire Santry reported that over 10% of the indexed 50,000 prison admissions had been born in Ireland.