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
As Chris Paton demonstrates in this straightforward practical guide, while the internet is an enormous asset, it is also something to be wary of. Researchers need to take a cautious approach to the internet information they acquire. They need to ask, where did the original material come from and has it been accurately reproduced, why was it put online, what has been left out and what is still to come? More Info
Product Code: BK6335
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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Clan and Family History in the Highlands of Scotland
This volume lists innumerable microfiche that are currently available from societies, libraries, record offices, etc., as well as commercial publishers. This volume reveals an extraordinarily wide range of microfiche available to the genealogist. It aims to list everything relating to England, Scotland and Wales that has been microfiched, but also includes offerings from publishers in Australasia ...More Info
From about 1710 to about 1910, from most parts of England and some parts of Wales and Scotland. Compiled by Josephine Tombs. A4, 28 pages.
Full transcriptions of 3,127 baptism records of seven Methodist New Connexion Chapels: Bow Street Chapel (1828-1834), High Greave Chapel Ecclesfield (1902-1988), Owlerton Methodist Church (1879-1963), Potter Hill Chapel Ecclesfield 1858-1964), Scotland Street Chapel (1795-1966), South Street Chapel (1860-1912) and Talbot Street Chapel (1862-1962). The content of the records varies but where record...More Info
Transcription of details of marriages conducted at eighty seven Methodist chapels: Andover Street, Burngreave 1940-1975, Anns Road Chapel 1899-1990, Aston 1986-1989, Attercliffe Road 1912-1958, Beck Road, Shiregreen 1939-1980, Ben Lane, Wadsley 1920-1968, Ben Lane, Wisewood 1971-1974, Bethel Chapel, Carbrook 1922-1936, Bethel, Chapel Street, Woodhouse 1935-1950, Broomhill United Chapel, Glossop Ro...More Info