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Back in December I posted a comment about discovering various Scottish Registers of Aliens, especially those held by Edinburgh City Archives. Well now you can view images from some of these registers courtesy of the LothianLives blog. Lothianlives features images and stories from the records held by the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and West [... to continue reading click on the post title] Dumfries – engraving by William Miller after C Stanfield As part of my certificate in Family and Local History being run by Dundee University Archives we’ve been looking at the financial records of Scottish burghs and specifically at some records created by the burgh of Dumfries. Because of this I’ve now discovered that Dumfries & Galloway [... to continue reading click on the post title] Although the various registers of aliens held by The National Archives in Kew have been fairly well covered in family history magazines, I’ve never heard of any similar records held in Scottish archives…. until today. As usual, I was looking for something else, and came across a mention that the Edinburgh City Archives (ECA) catalogue [... to continue reading click on the post title] The Mitchell Library in Glasgow The Mitchell Library in Glasgow is running a series of family history lectures starting on 14 November and running through into December as part of the Archive Awareness Campaign. The lecture subjects are: An introduction to Irish family history To find [... to continue reading click on the post title] The National Archives (TNA) has just announced that seven record offices across England and Wales will get free access to the 1911 census for England and Wales. The record offices are in: Birmingham See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/337.htm?WT.hp=nf-37818 for the full story. [... to continue reading click on the post title] The Glasgow Police Museum which is based in the old District Court in St Andrew’s Square is due to close on 8 December. The Scottish Courts Service is taking over the District Courts from Glasgow Council but does not want the old court building, so the museum has been given notice to quit. The full [... to continue reading click on the post title] Isn’t it typical – I start this blog full of good intentions and then work gets in the way. [... to continue reading click on the post title] |
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