What's the difference between the Scotland's People, Scotsorigins and scan websites?

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk is now the official website providing a pay-per-search facility for anyone researching their Scottish family tree.

www.scotsorigins.com formerly provided this facility. It now provides, among other things a 'sightings' service for those who want to find out the details given on certificates (up to 1990), parish registers and census returns, without buying the official extracts.

www.scan.org.uk is made available by the Scottish Archive Network and provides information on more than 50 archive collections throughout Scotland.