Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

I have found this an excellent site for Scottish Research, very helpful people on there.


http://www.TalkingScot.com

Barbara.

http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/historicalindexes/census.aspx
this site has helped me so much it is not complete but well worth a try for scots ancestors everywhere

i would also recommend lothiansfhs.org.uk for anyone lookink for family from the lothians.i have had a lot of help from people on that site,and one kind soul in edinburgh found my ggggrandparents graves and helped me to get my ggggrandfathers army discharge papers from 1816.i was so thrilled because it gave a description of him.

We all know about the Scotlands People

There's another one Scotlands Places There are lots of free digitised records, including 1797 Farm Horse Tax returns and 1873 Scottish landowners returns.

Have just visited the island and visited the Arran Heritage Museum.
They have genealogy records from the clearances in the 1820's and also copies of correspondence from emigrants from along the St Lawrence River.

Contact info is:

Arran Heritage Museum
Rosaburn
BRODICK
Isle of Arran
KA27 8DP

Tel 01770 302636
e mail info@arranmuseum.co.uk

Although the place looks small from the outside, I was "kicked out" at closing time having a good three hours there and hadn't seen everything.
A family ticket was £7.00!! Brilliant value

This is a PAID FOR service.

Received from the website owner.

Having browsed your website recently, I thought your organisation may be interested in considering adding as a resource/adding a link to my website: http://www.memento-mori.co.uk.

The website consists of searchable online indices containing names, ages, dates of death and places of burial in many locations in Central Scotland. (Women are listed by both maiden and married surnames.)

The indices include both pre-1855 and post-1855 gravestones many of which have been previously transcribed in the Pre-1855 Monumental Inscriptions series of publications by Mitchell.

Each separate index contains a selection of photographs (at the end of each document).

They have now over 700 Post Office Directories online, searchable by name - first three letters and place. A lovely quick search engine too.

http://digital.nls.uk/directories/index.html

Also many other directories and internet archives for Scotland

http://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland

A list of more than 3,500 known burial grounds in Scotland.

http://www.safhs.org.uk/burialgrounds.asp

http://www.scottishindexes.com/default.aspx

This site has a lot of indexes that aren't available on other sites.

These could be very good if you have Scottish Ancestry The National Library of Scotland has digitised a selection of 383 documents/books relating to the histories of Scottish Families.
These are freely accessible on their website
http://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scot ... d=93506071

For Aberdeenshire, Scotland
http://classic-web.archive.org/web/2007 ... au/phdgen/

and Aberdeen County Militia Records
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/educatio ... ilitia.asp

and some graveyards
http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/databank/miindex/miindex.php

Another one I've just heard of http://www.oldscottish.com/

I've used this website in the past:-

http://www.ayrshireroots.co.uk/

It's great when you find information like this "Rev. Landsborough's Lists" I found my Harveys on these old parish census records:-

http://www.ayrshireroots.co.uk/Genealog ... orough.htm


Blue

Origin and history of some Glasgow street names.
http://www.glasgowhistory.co.uk/StreetNames.htm

The National Library of Scotland has a dedicated platform on the Internet Archive.
Freely available on this platform are Military Lists for the British Army, RAF & Royal Navy, Gazetteers, PO Directories and much more. The records don't just cover Scotland.
https://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland

Some Isle of Skye gravestones
http://images.skyegravestones.co.uk/

Scottish Court of Sessions Digital Archive
http://scos.law.virginia.edu/scos/search