Hi Mandy,

It sounds like you may be back far enough to use the Scotlands People site at: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

Certificate records they cover are:

Births 1855-1904
Marriages 1855-1929
Deaths 1855-1954

Start with your mothers death certificate, if you dont have it you and it is after 1954 then you can buy a copy from the Registry Office it is registered at, hire a researcher to look it up or call NRH in Edinburgh.

Then look for your Mums marriage certificate and look for her birth certificate as well, this will tell you when/where her parents married so you can search for that as well.

Don't forget to visit these sites:

Ayrshire How To Guide
http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctayr/howto.html

Ayrshire GenWebPage
http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctayr/index.html

Ayrshire Page
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~ayrshire/

Ayrshire-Roots & Chat Room, Penpal Page, Herald Intimations Database, WWI Casualty Database, Poor Relief & Surname Indexes
http://www.ayrshire-roots.com/

Search the Ayrshire Mailing List Archives
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AYRS...

Read the Ayrshire List Archives
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AYRSHIRE

As you mentioned Fife, you may want to join/post to the Fife list as well. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/SCT-FIFE.html

tata

Alex