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Gathering the Clans - Tracing Scottish Ancestry on the Internet
by Alan Stewart Scottish ancestry is easy to trace on the Internet, because Scotland is leading the world in making its family history records available on-line. So now, wherever you live, it is easy to grow a Scottish family tree! All the main records are already on-line: births, marriages and deaths (from 1855), old parish registers (some back as far as 1553), wills and inventories (from 1500) and ten-yearly census returns (1841-1901). In the near future, church, land, poor relief, taxa More Info
Product Code: BK5693
Welsh Genealogy by Bruce Durie
Welsh Genealogy is usually included with its English cousin, but there are significant differences between the two, and anyone wishing to trace their Welsh ancestry will encounter peculiarities that are not covered by books on English family history. There is a separate system of archives and repositories for Wales, there are differences in civil registration and censuses, Nonconformist registers are dissimilar to those of other Churches, and Welsh surnames and place names are very different ... More Info
Product Code: BK6195
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Ian Maxwell
Scotland's history has been influenced by many factors - the division between the Highlands and the Lowlands, the feudal system, the Reformation, the industrial revolution - that have shaped the country's past and impacted on the lives of its people. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to this long, complex and fascinating story. It is aimed primarily at family historians who are eager to explore and understand the world in which their ancestors lived. Ian More Info
Product Code: BK6219
Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History by Bruce Durie
This book details how to find and comprehend documents from 1560 to the 1860s, including wills, testaments, contracts, land records, official records, deeds, and more. The Latin glossary is especially useful for helping translate any Latin documents. Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are adept at using the internet for research. However, once they have learnt everything they can from them, the next step is readin... More Info
Product Code: BK6252
Scottish Genealogy Fourth Edition by Bruce Durie
This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Scottish Genealogy is a comprehensive guide to tracing your family history in Scotland. Written by one of the most authoritative figures on the subject, the work is based on established genealogical practice and is designed to exploit the rich resources that Scotland has to offer. After all, this country has possibly the most complete and best-kept set of records and other documents in the world. Addressing the questions of DNA, palaeograph More Info
Product Code: BK6699
Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet by Chris Paton
A practical guide to researching Scottish ancestry using the Internet. Contains chapters on many classes of records and online offerings sourced nationally and from every Scottish county; covers national institutions, commercial sites and sources generated by local Family History Societies and individuals; explains how these sources can be understood and related to individual research projects; examines many uniquely Scottish collections not replicated elsewhere. An essential work of reference for anyone studying Scottish family history or national history More Info
Product Code: BK6771
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My Ancestor was Scottish / Alan Stewart
Scottish ancestors? This book provides a basic introduction to sources for tracing them. It will be particularly useful for those of Scottish descent living in England.
The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I
This book by M. Perceval-Maxwell was first published in 1973, yet it continues to be one of the most significant works of scholarship on the Plantation of Ulster. This book describes in detail the initial establishment of settlement in Ireland's northern province over a comparitively short space of time, that is from 1603 to 1625. Dr Perceval-Maxwell examines the society that produced the Scottish...More Info
Scottish Family History on the Web: a directory / Stuart A. Raymond
There are thousands of web sites likely to be of interest to Scottish genealogists. They are not always easy to identify. This volumes serves as a directory to the best sites, so that you do not have to cope with search engines which bring up thousands of irrelevant entries, without the one that you are looking for.
Clock & Watchmakers of the Scottish Highlands & Islands 1780-1900
Historical information on individual Clock & Watchmakers
Lost Railways of the Scottish Borders by Gordon Stansfield
This book recalls the lines, including the Waverly line, and the branch lines as they once existed in the nineteenth fifties and sixties before.......