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Scottish Genealogy Links General Register Office of Scotland. New Register House holds all the "hatches, matches and despatches" for the whole of Scotland. The births, marriages and deaths are on a computerised database and copies of all the church parish records have been microfilmed and are available there for research. A fully searchable on-line index of these records are available at Scottish Origins. The records available are the indexes of all surviving Old Parish Registers of births/baptisms and banns/marriages from 1553 to 1900, indexes to the Statutory Registers of births and marriages from 1855 to 1899, indexes to the Statutory Registers of deaths for 1855 to 1925 and an index to census records for 1881, 1891 and 1901 (with images of actual pages for 1891 and 1901). One additional year of births/deaths/marriage index data is added per annum. For a payment of six pounds sterling, about ten US dollars, a customer will be able to see and download up to 30 computer-screen pages of index data. For an additional ten pounds the customer will be able to highlight a particular index entry and send an electronic order for an extract of the full record to which the index entry relates. The General Register Office not only provides up to date statistics about births, marriages, divorce and deaths and Census Records but also the most frequently used Popular Forenames, 1900 - 2000 in Scotland and also Surnames. The Hall of Fame Web pages illustrate entries for some famous people including the baptism entry for Rob Roy McGregor. Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com) is the leading resource for family history online. The site offers over 1 billion names in over 3,000 unique databases. GENUKI: Scotland. Part of the UK and Ireland Genealogy project, there is a vast amount of information including an extensive description of (non-Web) genealogical archives and bibliography of publications on Scottish family history, plus libraries, cemeteries, census information, gazetteers, maps, newspapers etc. Each of the Scottish counties (as structured before the 1975 local government reorganisation destroyed centuries of the traditional counties) is looked after by an expert in that county; the information held is therefore not identical but reflects what is available in a given area. The
individual counties are: Scotland "GenWeb" Project. Provides help for genealogical researchers investigating Scotland to find local resource and reference information, including a multi-part Introductory Guide to help people who are just starting out to research their family history. The Scotland GenWeb is a part of the UKGenWeb Project. As with GENUKI: Scotland (above) each of the former Scottish counties (prior to restructuring in 1975) is allocated to an expert in the individual areas. Indexes of Parishes, Births, Deaths and Marriages. Genealogy Gateway. This is a vast site with over 20,000 genealogy and resource listings including 2,000 surname homepage listings, commercial genealogy products and services and a site search engine. Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet has 17,000+ URL's on the subject. There is a specific page dedicated to Scottish Genealogical Links but really the entire set of pages is worth a thorough investigation for anyone researching their family tree. Cemeteries on the Internet. There are links to cemeteries representing the resting places of more than 4,000,000 people from United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on this page, as well as much information about cemeteries worldwide. Sites are listed in order of population size they represent. Church of the Latter Day Saints. One of the most important sources of genealogical information are the Family History Centres operated by the Church of the Latter Day Saints (the Mormons, often referred to in genealogy pages as "LDS"). The microfiche record they have made of all the births and marriages recorded in all the parish records in Scotland is a treasure trove and this site lists the addresses and phone numbers of the locations of the Family History Centres in USA where these records can be viewed. (Copies of the microfiche are available in main libraries in the UK also). The LDS database is available On Line and contains 13 million records of births and marriages abstracted from Scottish old parish registers. Also available are similar records for over 400 million people from the UK, USA, Europe, Asia and Japan. Burke's Landed Gentry. The classic multi-volume Burke's Landed Gentry has been a standard reference work for generations of researchers into the genealogy of all the major titled and untitled families in the UK. The first volume of the 19th edition, due to be published in August 2001, covers all the people who have power and influence in Scotland. So it not only covers all the expected aristocracy such as peers, lords, barons, knights and clan chiefs but also senior figures in politics, the military, law, religion, education, business and the arts. The Web site promises to have an on-line searchable database from spring 2001 onwards and you can order the printed version via the site. National Library of Scotland. Online Scottish Names Research Directory. The Scots/Irish Immigration of the 1700s. Scots Members of the French Nobility. Hebridean Scots of the Province of Quebec. Scottish
Immigrants to North America, 1600s-1800s Scottish Connection in Kansas, USA. Scottish
Emigrants to Upper Canada in 1820 Passenger Lists. There are a large number of sites containing detailed lists of passengers on emigrant ships from Europe to most parts of the world. Most are not focused on Scotland alone so you you may have to do some digging through these sites: The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild offers a variety of materials obtained from many different sources that have been transcribed by many different members of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild community. Ships to America (American Plantations and Colonies) This site is definitely worth a visit if you are researching ancestors who emigrated to USA. Passenger Lists (New Zealand) Denise and Peter have an excellent website full of online genealogy records and this page of over 200 passenger lists is no exception. The P.E.I. Ships Database. Dave Hunter maintains a very popular site on Prince Edward Island, Canada genealogy and this page is a part of it. The database of ships is split into 5 pages. The list of ships is comprehensive, but only some ships have attached passenger lists. The first passenger list is dated 1770, the last 1864. There are also some passenger lists for ships from PEI to New Zealand. Immigrant Ships caring some of the first Colonists to the West Michigan area. Specifically to South Ottawa County, and the Northern part of Allegan County. The
following ships carried the "Foreign
Protestants" Cornwallis Ships to Halifax - 1749. Ships Bound for Nova Scotia Between 1750 and 1862. Passenger arrivals at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, March 1848 - January 1851. Cyndi's
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Ships' Passenger lists. Censuses on the Internet. There are links to over 6,500 censuses on this page, providing a wealth of information for genealogy researchers tracing ancestors from UK, US, Canada, or Europe. Free downloadable parish locator Software. Scots at War Project & Commemorative War of Honor. Bevin Boys. From December 1943 until the end of the war, 48,000 Bevin Boys were directed to work in the coal mines. Bevin Boys represented 10% of male conscripts aged between 18 and 25 during the Second World War and were chosen by ballot to serve in the mining industry rather than in the armed services. Born in the Border Counties of Scotland extracted from the marriage index of Victoria, Australia 1853-1895. Scottish Documents. This site offers access to a fully searchable database of over 300,000 names of "defuncts" in Scottish Wills from 1500-1875. These names are linked to over 2 million high quality colour digital images which are available for purchase. Local Centres of Genealogical Information Scottish Border Family History. This page lists the families referred to (sometimes briefly) in Web page articles on the Scottish Borders. The family names of the Border Reivers. Tay Valley Family History Society provides help and assistance to those researching their genealogical history in that area. Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society has help, advice and links. Central Scotland Family History Society promotes the study of family history in Central Scotland. The Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society is a registered charity and was founded in 1978. The Society exists to assist and promote the study of genealogy and family history based on the North East corner of Scotland. This area covers the old counties of Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Kincardineshire and Morayshire. For my home county there is the Fife Family History Society. This Angus Surname Interest List,which is operated in association with the TAY VALLEY FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY and GENUKI , invites submissions from family historians and genealogists with specific interests in the county of Angus. Shetland Family History Society has hints on researching Sheland ancestors, a map of Shetland showing the parishes and links to related sites. The Highland Family History Society. The Society welcomes membership from interested family historians in all parts of the world. The Society has a library located within the public library at Inverness, Scotland and publishes a journal four times a year. Highland Clearances. A rapidly-growing digital archive on Scotland's Highland Clearances. Concentrating on first-hand accounts it tells the stories of where people came from and the places to which they went. Photographs, articles, statistics, people and passenger searches, maps and much more. Inhabitants in the Burgh of Selkirk, 16th June 1817. County Map of Scotland. Counties of England, Wales and Scotland prior to the 1974 Boundary Changes. Dunning Parish Historical Society has assembled a Graveyard Survey - a complete list of inscriptions on the gravestones in St Serf's kirkyard. The first headstones date from 1623. Many of the Clan and Family Web sites have genealogy pages. (The Rampant Scotland Clan and Tartan page has an extensive list of these). The Baronage Web Page includes a description of Hamilton of Cadzow from 1272 to the 16th century and also Fraser of Lovat genealogy. Scottish Heritage, in addition to providing historical background to a number of clans and families, also has a very useful Genealogy Help page. Family Tree Searcher is a free site that makes it easier for people to find family trees on the Internet. With it, you need to enter your ancestor's information just one time to search multiple sites for family trees. Genealogy: Advice for Effective Searches, is also a free site. It asks questions concerning what you already know about your ancestry. Your answers to the questions help create a customized plan on what you might do and where you might look in order to develop your research more fully. |
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