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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] I was browsing the Dumfries Kirk Session Minutes indexed online at http://www.dgcommunity.net/historicalindexes/default.aspx recently and came across several merchants in August 1689 who were being appointed as deacon and elders either regretting that they had taken “the Test” or saying that they had not taken “the Test”. [... to continue reading click on the post title] 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 [... to continue reading click on the post title] 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 [... to continue reading click on the post title] Just got back from the first day of WDYTYA at Olympia and I’m shattered so this is just a quick post to let you know about two new data products launched today. The Federation of Family History Societies has launched Version 3 of their National Burial Index for England and Wales. This new edition includes the [... to continue reading click on the post title] Off to the WDYTYA Live show tomorrow and Saturday. On Friday I’ll be having a wander round to see who’s there and what’s happening. On Saturday I’ll be on Stand 217 all day with Practical Family History magazine. See you there…. Sheena Old books – the genealogist’s friends We’re all so used to using Google books to search for digital copies of family history related books that it’s easy to forget there are other sources. Project Gutenberg has over 30,000 free ebooks both fiction and non-fiction, mostly in html or plain text format. Use the advanced search option [... to continue reading click on the post title] Familyrelatives.com have just announced the addition of the Slater’s Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland for 1889 to their collection of trade directories. From their announcement: Familyrelatives is proud to announce the addition of over a quarter of a million Victorian Scottish Trade Directory records online. Familyrelatives.com continues to add to its collection of [... 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] I got interested in family history because of this man. Robert Dunlop His name is Robert Dunlop, he was born in Ayrshire in 1848, the oldest of seven children born to a colliery engineman and his wife, and he was my great-grandfather on my father’s side of the family. I never met him (he died in 1921 [... to continue reading click on the post title] |
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