There is no uniformity on how far back local registrars hold records, and if you wish to make searches of the indexes, you are advised to make an appointment in advance. It may be difficult for some offices to provide this kind of service in addition to their normal registration duties. Borders Archive and Local Studies Centre, Library Headquarters, St Mary s Mill, Selkirk. Archivist Miss R Brown.
Appointments are advisable, especially when wishing to use the microfilm or microfiche readers.
The centre provides an opportunity to consult a large reference section of published local history material and original archives. The collection includes records from the Border burghs, local firms, school logs, valuation books, old maps, individual, family and estate papers, group and society papers, picture postcards and aerial photographs, printed ephemera and local newspapers dating back to the early 19 th century. Local Libraries in Duns, Hawick and Galashiels have collections largely of a county interest. The Museum holds churchyard records of burial grounds in towns and villages in Roxburghshire, also of Berwickshire tombstones and records of churchyards at Galashiels Old Cemetery, Ladhope, Bewlie, Ettrick Kirkyard and St Mary s, Yarrow. Border Family History Society , Secretary Mrs Fay Mackay, Caddonmill, Clovenfords, near Galashiels.