1. Scran - log in with your library card

2. Capital Collections

Discover the historical and cultural life of Edinburgh, Scotland and the Scots through this growing image library. Includes work by pioneer photographers Hill and Adamson

3. Ancestry

Did you know you can use Ancestry for free in your local library?

4. How to Research your Family Tree

Pages of information on how to research your family tree with Edinburgh Libraries.

5. Family Search

Search for Scottish Parish Records for free. These record births, deaths and marriages before 1855. Many other English and worldwide records available too.

6. Our Town Stories

Explore Edinburgh's history through stories, Images and historical maps from the collections of Edinburgh Libraries

7. Whose Town?

Information about this amazing interactive resource available on Glow and CD that allows you to explore Edinburgh's past through the lives of people who lived there.

Log on to the following sites for free with your library membership card number. If you don't have a library card you can apply for one online.

8. Scotsman Digital Archive

Every page of every issue of The Scotsman published between 1817 and 1950.

9. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Find out if anyone from your town, city, school or even street is included as one of the 57 000 life stories featured here.

10. John Johnson Archive of Printed Ephemera

This fantastic image collection offers unique insights into everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.