Scottish Record Society

The following is established of the heading itself. Institutional cataloguing adds that scottish Record Society is recorded from 1897. Institutional cataloguing adds that scottish Record Society is associated with United Kingdom.

Membership of the Society is open to all persons and institutions interested in its work. There is a governing council which manages the affairs of the society. George MacKenzie, former Keeper of the Records of Scotland and Registrar General, is President. The Chairman is Tristram Clarke. The Honorary Treasurer is Tessa Spencer. The Honorary Secretary is Samantha Smart. During its first decade the Society concentrated on transcribing and publishing detailed indices of testaments (wills) proved in Scottish Commissariot Courts.

The volumes of records produced by the SRS are part of a deep "empirical tradition" in Scottish historiography. Details of the Old Series, New Series, and Electronic Series publications may be found on the Society website. Recent volumes include: • Watt, D. E. R., & Murray, A. L., eds, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae Medii Aevi Ad Annum 1638, revised edition, 2003, • Shaw, D., ed., The Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland 1560 to 1618, 2004, 3 vols., • Fotheringham, Henry Steuart, ed., Munro, Jean, transcriber, Edinburgh Goldsmith's Minutes 1525–1700, 2006, • Stewart, A. I. B., List of Inhabitants upon the Duke of Argyle's Property in Kintyre in 1792 • Torrance, D. Richard, Scottish Studio Photographers to 1914 & Workers in the Scottish Photographic Industry, 2011, 2 vols., • Fotheringham, Henry S., ed., Munro, Jean, transcriber, Act Book of the Convenery of Deacons of the Trades of Edinburgh 1577–1755, 2011 (for 2012) 2 vols., • John Finlay, ed., Admission Register of Notaries Public in Scotland, 1700–1799, 2 vols.,