Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

Author: National Archives of Scotland

Publisher: Mercat Press Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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This guide provides an authoritative survey of the vast range of material held in the National Archives of Scotland - records of Scottish national and local government, Scottish churches, law courts and private families and businesses.


Your Scottish Ancestry

Your Scottish Ancestry

Author: Sherry Irvine

Publisher: Ancestry.com

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780916489656

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The world of genealogical research has changed dramatically in the years since this book debuted. In this revised second edition, Sherry Irvine mixes her award-winning methodology with up-to-date instruction on how to utilize the latest computer and internet sources for Scottish research. She also broadens the scope from a guide for North Americans to a useful resource for researchers from all over the globe. For family historians researching Scottish roots, this book continues to be indispensable.


Discover Your Scottish Ancestry

Discover Your Scottish Ancestry

Author: Graham S. Holton

Publisher: Roberts Rinehart

Published: 2004-01-23

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1461712009

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An ideal guide to tracing your Scottish ancestors combining the traditional methods of researching family history with new methods offered by information technology and the internet.


Scottish Roots

Scottish Roots

Author: Alwyn James

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781842820070

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This new and updated edition of the guide includes information on how to access family data utilising electronic resources and the Internet - a must if conducting research from an overseas base - and is a very welcome addition to the family library.


Scottish Ancestry

Scottish Ancestry

Author: Sherry Irvine

Publisher: Ancestry Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781593310271

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The world of genealogical research has changed dramatically in the years since this book debuted. In this revised second edition, Sherry Irvine mixes her award-winning methodology with up-to-date instruction on how to utilize the latest computer and internet sources for Scottish research. She also broadens the scope from a guide for North Americans to a useful resource for researchers from all over the globe. For family historians researching Scottish roots, this book continues to be indispensable.


Discover Your Scottish Ancestry

Discover Your Scottish Ancestry

Author: Graham Holton

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2009-11-04

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0748641785

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This illuminating guide to discovering your Scottish family history has been fully revised and updated to take account of changes to resources and methods for researching your Scottish ancestry over the last few years. Accessible in style and comprehensive in coverage, this new edition stresses the importance of traditional methods of family history research while also embracing the exciting possibilities afforded by new technologies, sources and developments in genetic science.Indispensable to both the fledgling researcher and the more experienced family history specialist in Scotland or elsewhere, this book provides a guide to the very latest resources available to assist with research. Covering Scottish primary and secondary sources in full detail, this book also provides illustrative case studies of family history research, lists of useful websites and archives, and family history organisations and societies.Highlights of this new edition:*An updated chapter dedicated to aspects of recording, scanning and storing information*New insight into accessing English, Irish, emigrant and immigrant records*An update on developments in DNA genetics of relevance to the genealogist*A substantial and broad-ranging bibliography essential for those who want to take their research even further.


Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857

Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857

Author: David Dobson

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0806353120

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This book began as Jean Stephenson's effort to validate the family tradition that her great-great-grandparents emigrated from Belfast to South Carolina under the leadership of Covenanter Presbyterian minister William Martin in 1772. The author was not only able to authenticate the crux of the story, but, in the process, to place nearly 500 Scotch-Irish families in South Carolina on the eve of the Revolutionary War.Genealogists will want to pore over the land evidences assembled by the author from entries found in the Council Journal, namely, authorizations, survey abstracts, wills, deeds and other records which demonstrate where each family settled, or was entitled to settle. The families, which are grouped under the vessel they traveled in, are identified by the name of the household head, names of spouse and children, number of acres surveyed, county, location of the nearest body of water and the names of abutting neighbor, and the source of the information.


Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America

Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America

Author: David Dobson

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 0806352388

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The book under consideration here marks the second in a series on Scottish colonial soldiers compiled by emigration authority David Dobson. (The first volume was published as two parts in one.) Working from manuscripts in the Acts of the Privy Council and the Calendar of British State Papers and published sources such as the Aberdeen Journal, the Edinburgh Advertiser, and the Georgia Gazette, the author has uncovered information on an additional 750 Scottish colonial solders not found in his earlier book. One such soldier was "John Wright, born in High Calton, Edinburgh, during 1728, an army sergeant who fought in the French and Indian War and in the American War of Independence, witnessed to death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, died in Joppa, Edinburgh, in 1838, father of a Roman Catholic priest in Montreal."


The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide

The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide

Author: Amanda Epperson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1440354154

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Discover your Scottish roots! You take the high road, and I'll take the low--and your family tree will be in Scotland before you know it. This book will help you uncover your Scottish heritage, from identifying your immigrant ancestor to tracking down records in the old country. With help from Scottish genealogy expert Amanda Epperson, you'll learn about church records, civil registrations, censuses, and more, plus how to find them in online databases and in archives. Inside, you'll find: • Basic information on how to start family history research, including identifying and tracing immigrant ancestors • Step-by-steps for finding and using records from both the United States and Scotland • Crash-course guides to Scottish history, geography, surnames, and naming conventions Whether your ancestors hail from the Highlands or the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, this book will help you grow your family tree in Scotland.