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Scottish Landowners and Heritages 1872/3
Includes the name and address of every owner in Scotland of one acre and upwards in extent with estimated acreage and the annual vale of lands and heritages.... More Info
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 25 (May 2015)
Issue 25 features: *The front line of faith: Nicola Lisle looks at 150 years of the Salvation Army, and how to trace Salvationist ancestors *All the fun of the fair: Yorkshire Family History Fair preview *Before the census: Chris Paton looks at Scottish census and census substitute records before 1841 *One-stop shops: Jayne Shrimpton explores the history of department stores and their impact on shoppers and staff *Saving what they could carry: Canada’s Great Fire of 1922 *A may to remember: Keith Gregson tells the story of Britain's worst railway disaster, sidelined by its occurrence during WW1 *States of growth: Jill Morris on booming 19th century America *History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on parasols More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 35 (March 2016)
* Heavy work: Sue Wilkes digs into the lives and work of Britain's lead miners * Criminally insane or cold-blooded murderer?: Nick Thorne researches a 19th century cause celebre using TheGenealogist's record collections * The privilege of the feu...: Chris Paton explores the ownership records for Scottish land and property * The ancestral laptop: Ruth A Symes explores the history of family writing desks, and what family historians can learn from them * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on trousers * Meaning business: Jill Morris investigates the history of limited companies More Info
Product Code: DYAP035
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 38 (June 2016)
* The wreck of the SS London: 150 years ago this notorious shipping disaster claimed the lives of hundreds, as Simon Wills explains * A comedy heroine descended from a WW1 hero: Nick Thorne takes a look at the family of the well-loved and talented entertainer Victoria Wood * Finding other people's secrets: Jocelyn Robson explains how she investigated a fascinating story of a woman who faked her own death and reinvented herself * Stythies, handlooms and tenterhooks: Melvyn Jones delves into the working lives of home-based handloom weavers and metalworkers * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on jodhpurs * Great Scots online: Jill Morris explores the wealth of Scottish records available More Info
Product Code: DYAP038
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 46 (February 2017)
* The migrant miners: Melvyn Jones investigates the movement of mining families into the South Yorkshire coalfield * The oldest debate? Lorraine Schofield explores the conflicting attitudes to prostitution in Victorian Britain * In search of the Chief Scout: Nick Thorne looks at a man from a large family who grew up to be a national hero * The Scottish courts: Family historian Chris Paton explores the Scottish judicial system and the records it has kept * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on bodices More Info
Product Code: DYAP046
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 48 (April 2017)
* 'Warm stuff of diverse colours': Jayne Shrimpton explores the history of Scottish plaids, kilts and tartans * Puzzles of multiplication: Sharon Brookshaw explores the rites and superstitions adopted by our ancestors when trying to conceive a child * Plimsoll's line: Nick Thorne explores the life of Samuel Plimsoll, from bankrupt coal merchant to renegade MP * Life in miniature: Nicola Lisle delves into the history of dolls' houses and what they tell us about our ancestors' lives * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on skirts More Info
Product Code: DYAP048
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 105 (January 2022)
* Master of endurance: Marking the centenary of Ernest Shackleton's death this month, Caroline Roope tells the remarkable story of this great explorer * History's reckoning: From clay tablets to computers, Richard Willis explores the history of accounting and accountants * Crime among cops: We rely on our police forces to help us, solving crimes and making us feel safe. But there is a long history of scandal within the police ranks... By Nell Darby * Updating a Shetland ancestry: Keith Gregson examines some of the resources - old and new - useful for researching roots on the Scottish isles * A brewer's road to Damascus: Nick Thorne follows the story of Frederick Nicholas Charrington, the ex-brewer who built a temperance movement hall down the road from the brewery * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 1) More Info
Product Code: DYAP105
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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.......