Discover Your Scottish Ancestry
eBook - PDF

Discover Your Scottish Ancestry

Internet and Traditional Resources

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Discover Your Scottish Ancestry

Internet and Traditional Resources

About this book

This illuminating guide to discovering your Scottish family history has been fully revised and updated to take account of changes to resources and methods for researching your Scottish ancestry over the last few years. Accessible in style and comprehensive in coverage, this new edition stresses the importance of traditional methods of family history research while also embracing the exciting possibilities afforded by new technologies, sources and developments in genetic science.Indispensable to both the fledgling researcher and the more experienced family history specialist in Scotland or elsewhere, this book provides a guide to the very latest resources available to assist with research. Covering Scottish primary and secondary sources in full detail, this book also provides illustrative case studies of family history research, lists of useful websites and archives, and family history organisations and societies.Highlights of this new edition: *An updated chapter dedicated to aspects of recording, scanning and storing information*New insight into accessing English, Irish, emigrant and immigrant records*An update on developments in DNA genetics of relevance to the genealogist*A substantial and broad-ranging bibliography essential for those who want to take their research even further.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. FOREWORD
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. Chapter 1 GATHERING INFORMATION FROM YOUR FAMILY
  7. Chapter 2 RECORDING AND STORING
  8. Chapter 3 BASIC SOURCES FOR FAMILY HISTORY
  9. Chapter 4 SUPPLEMENTARY SOURCES
  10. Chapter 5 FAMILY HISTORY AND THE INTERNET
  11. Chapter 6 HISTORICAL INFORMATION
  12. Chapter 7 HISTORICAL SOURCES PRE-1855
  13. Chapter 8 PRESENTING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY
  14. Chapter 9 FAMILY HERITAGE
  15. Chapter 10 DNA, GENETICS, HEALTH AND FAMILY MEDICAL HISTORY
  16. Appendix 1 ENGLISH, WELSH AND IRISH RECORDS
  17. Appendix 2 INTERPRETING OLDER FORMS OF HANDWRITING
  18. Appendix 3 WEBSITES
  19. Appendix 4 USEFUL ADDRESSES
  20. Appendix 5 SAMPLE FORMS FOR OBTAINING AND RECORDING INFORMATION
  21. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  22. INDEX