Registration Service
Information on registering a birth, registering a death, getting married (in Scottish Borders and abroad) and genealogy enquiries.
The Scottish Borders District Registration Service is operated from fourteen locations within the Scottish Borders. This includes thirteen district offices and the Council’s Headquarters where the Chief Registrar is based.
This section of the website provides information about the Scottish Borders District Registration Service and the legal requirements pertaining to registering births, still births, deaths, wedding ceremonies and civil partnerships in the Scottish Borders.
The links below will provide you with more information on the registration of a:
Other Services offered by the Registration Service are:
- Advice about changing your name
- Copies of birth, death, marriage and civil partnership extracts (certificates)
- Civil Naming Ceremonies
- Vow Renewal Ceremonies
- Genealogy Searches
- Citizenship Ceremonies
General Register Office for Scotland Website
The General Register Office for Scotland is the department of the devolved Scottish Administration responsible for the registration of births, marriages, deaths, divorces and adoptions in Scotland, and for carrying out periodic censuses of Scotland's population.
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