Scotland

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• There is an online introductory tutorial on Scottish genealogy.
• A list of mailing lists serving countries, counties and regions of the British Isles.
• Similarly, to find links to online surname lists (collections of people's surname interests) look in the relevant county pages, or check the master list of surname lists, again elsewhere in GENUKI.

  The Scotland Surnames List maintained by Graham Jaunay includes people's interests in surnames for Scotland as a whole, and for a number of individual counties.

• Details of upcoming United Kingdom and Ireland Genealogical Events (GENEVA).
• Useful online sites of genealogy information include:
  • The Scottish portion of Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites.
  • Researchers may be interested in the Scotland GenWeb pages.

  • David Wills' online collection of Scottish Genealogy Reference Information.
  • The Scottish portion of Genealogy Gateway to the Web.
  • Sue Lund's Scotland Birth, Death and Marriage Exchange.
  • Free Surname Search - links to a great variety of different indexes which can be searched at no charge. Some provide a different interface to databases, e.g. the IGI, some are indexes for particular localities, e.g. a census index for one place.

• The following books are all useful guides to Scottish genealogical research: [Note that other editions of some of these books, for instance in the USA and Canada, have been published]
  • Discover Your Scottish Ancestry - Internet and Traditional Resources by Graham S Holton & Jack Winch - Edinburgh University Press 2003 I.S.B.N. 0 7846 1864 3
  • A rather old publication but still of great value:- Sources for Scottish Genealogy and Family History by D.J.Steel, published 1970 by Phillimore & Co. Ltd. for the Society of Genealogists (National Index of Parish Registers" volume XII)
  • My ain folk by Graham S. Holton and Jack Winch, published by Tuckwell Press, East Linton (1997, 150 pages) with ISBN 1 86232 024 1. This is subtitled "an easy guide to Scottish family history" and includes information on using the Internet to help with your research.
  • Tracing your Scottish ancestry by Kathleen B. Cory, published by Polygon, Edinburgh (1996, 2nd edition) with ISBN 0-7486-6215-4
  • In search of Scottish ancestry by Gerald Hamilton-Edwards, published by Phillimore, Chichester (1983)
  • Scottish Roots by Alwyn James, published by the Saltire Society, Edinburgh (1995, 159 pages) with ISBN 0-85411-066-6
  • Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors (a guide to ancestry research in the Scottish Record Office) by Cecil Sinclair, published by the Scottish Record Office (now renamed the National Archives of Scotland), Edinburgh: HMSO,1997 (revised edition). ISBN 0-11-495865-3
  • Tracing Scottish Ancestors by Rosemary Bigwood, published by Harper Collins (in Collins Pocket Reference series) in 1999, ISBN 0004723287 (288 pages)
  • Your Scottish Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans by Sherry Irvine, published by Ancestry in 1997 ISBN 0916489655 (267 pages)
  • Gathering the Clans - Tracing Scottish Ancestry on the Internet by Alan Stewart, published by Phillimore in 2004, ISBN 1-86077-291-9.
• For information on previously published family histories (particularly landed families), see the following publications:
  • Scottish Family Histories by Margaret Stewart
  • Scottish Family Histories by Joan P S Ferguson
• The Scotsfind website, maintained by Richard Robertson, provides access to a number of useful databases, including: The Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses and Guild-Brethren, Register of Edinburgh Apprentices, Register of Edinburgh Marriages and Hamilton and Campsie Register of Testaments.
• The Court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms has its own website. There is also much useful information on the website of the Heraldry Society of Scotland - founded in 1977 with the objective of promoting the study of heraldry and encouraging its correct use in Scotland and Overseas.

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