Tracing your family tree is one of the fastest growing leisure pursuits in the UK.  If you are interested in tracing your family history, there are a number of organisations in Fife who can help with your research.

Click on the links below to see what's on offer.

Libraries & Museums can provide useful family and local history resources such as census returns, parish registers, photographs, books, maps, archives and newspapers.  Free Internet using the EzFife computers means you can also access a range of electronic resources. 

The next Fife Family History Fair, organised by the Libraries & Museums Service, will be held in the autumn of 2011. 

Fife Council Archives look after documents covering the last 500 years of Fife history. This includes the minute books of Fife Council and records of the other official bodies that have been maintaining roads and dealing with other county wide issues since 1709. All sorts of different people appear in the records including schoolteachers and pupils, coal miners, and even witches.

Use the online archives catalogue search to see the sort of records they hold or to look for something specific.

Fife Family History Society was formed in 1989, has over 700 members and is still growing.The principal aim of the society is to promote the study of family history in Fife.  In association with Fife Council Libraries & Museums, the society has a  Family History Room in Methil Library, which holds many primary sources such as Fife Old Parish Registers and Census Returns on microfilm.

Fife's Registration Service now offers a genealogy service where you can carry out research and trace your family history or you can purchase a family tree. 

We now offer this service from 2 Genealogy Centres in Fife, one based in St Andrews Local Services Centre and the other based in the City Chambers, Dunfermline.  Experienced Researchers will offer you assisted searches, expert advice and information, as well as the opportunity to commission us to produce your own family tree.