The following is from Grant Miller at BrightSolid.com: From tenements to palaces – these records offer a fascinating snapshot of Scotland during the Edwardian era and are a major new genealogy resource Over 2 million names of Scots included in the property records for 1905 are being released today online for the first time via [...]
Moorshead Magazines is the publisher of Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, and Discovering Family History. Every so often the company collects the best articles on a particular subject from each of the three magazines and combines them into a special edition. Tracing You English & Scottish Ancestors is one such release. Produced in 2011, this 56-page special [...]
While Irish research, and by extension Irish research books, are always at the popularity list, British and Scottish books and research are also highly popular. Below are just a few of the books to be found at Family Root Publishing for these two groups. Scottish books with reviews on this site 17th Century Scots in [...]
The following excerpt is from an article in the November 11, 2012 edition of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail: A RETIRING registrar has been accused of deliberately destroying adoption records detailing the birth parents of babies born over 30 years. The records, held by council officials, contained vital details for children who later wanted [...]
The following news release was received from Grant Millar at Brightsolid: · From inmates of poorhouses to owners of mansions – a fascinating portrait of Scottish life during the early 20th Century and a major new family history resource A colourful picture of life in Scotland in the early 20th Century is revealed today, with [...]
Many early Scottish immigrants were enterprising individuals. In fact, many were engaged in such economic endeavors like the tobacco trade, which prior to the Revolution was controlled by Glasgow-based merchants and their factors. As is always the case, where there are business transactions there are lawsuits. Scottish-American Court Records: 1733-1783 lists North American residents engaged [...]
The family history website, ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk, celebrates its tenth birthday in September 2012. Officially launched in mid-September 2002, ScotlandsPeople was one of the first genealogy sites to arrive on the web. The site now contains over 90 million digital records and corresponding images, and adds new sets of fully-searchable historical records on a regular basis. With [...]
Dwight Radford has posted a lot of GREAT STUFF since I last posted a blog about his The Journey Home Genealogy website. His last 5 blogs alone dealt with the following topics: Presbyterian Identity Prince Edward Island Archives Scots-Irish and Muscogee (Creek) Connection The Un-churched Dictionary of the Churched (1811) – Part 2 The Un-Churched [...]
The following Teaser is from an extensive article published in the August 14, 2012 edition of The Scotsman. A project aiming to discover the origins of Scots through the use of DNA, has come up with some startling findings – including how the invention of porridge changed Scotland, writes Alastair Moffat. Read the full article.
As I’ve noted before, I highly recommend Dwight Radford’s The Journey Home Genealogy blog. I’ve been keeping a running chronological list of links to his blog topics ever since he started. If you have Irish or Scots research, you should check it out.
The following article was written by my friend, William Dollarhide: Note: Any old wagon roads identified here in bold type are shown graphically on the map below. If you had ancestors who went from the Chesapeake to the interior of North Carolina in the middle 1700s; or if you had ancestors who arrived in America [...]
The following news release was received from FamilySearch.org: FamilySearch published new, free records online for Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, England, Georgia, Indonesia, Italy, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. The 1940 US Census Community Project continues to progress quickly. Online volunteers have now indexed 80 [...]
Dictionary.com defines gazetteer as simply: “a geographical dictionary.” I have seen, and even reviewed on this site, many books titled Gazetteer. However, The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev. John Wilson, may be the first book I have ever seen that hold 100% true to this definition. No maps, that’s an atlas, no legends, no charts, [...]
Dwight Radford’s new “The Journey Home Genealogy” Blog continues to grow with all kinds of Irish topics of interest to millions of Americans being posted on a daily basis. Since posting my intitial blog about the site, I’ve continued to post links to the new articles on a daily basis, as this stuff is really [...]
Scottish blood running through your veins? If so, Scottish Ancestry: Research Methods for Family History is one of the more pleasurable reads you will find on the topic. Sherry Irvine writes as though the topic were a person. She adds life and interest to the descriptions and techniques provided for each topic. Irvine recognizes it [...]
