The Scottish Distributed Digital Library

I’ve just come across the Scottish Distributed Digital Library: a collection of links to digitised sounds, images and texts with Scottish themes on the internet.

The collection includes books, photographs, paintings, drawings and websites covering such diverse subjects as

Aberdeen-built ships
Ayrshire working lives photographs
Hand drawn maps of Cawdor parish dating from 1782
The Dictionary of Scottish Architects
Architectural plans

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March 13th, 2010 | Category: Research, Scottish | 2 comments

How many generations back can you trace?

1975 Golden Wedding celebration for Marcus Calder Campbell & Janet Russell Dickson

There’s been a discussion lately on one of the American genealogy blogs about how feasible it is to trace back through 10 generations of family history.

Leaving aside any arguments about “name hunting” as opposed to documenting a family’s history I thought it

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March 9th, 2010 | Category: Research | Start the conversation