The perfect guide to tracing your Scottish ancestors.

Discover Your Scottish Ancestry: Internet and Traditional Resources

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Winch, Jack

Genealogy

Edinburgh University Press

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 further.

Holton, Graham

Parenting & Relationships

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

<p>Find out if Sean Connery, the real MacBeth, Mary Queen of Scots, William Wallace, or even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fits into your family tree! In <i> Discover Your Scottish Ancestry </i> are examples of family history research, lists of useful web sites, and names and addresses of relevant offices, organizations, and societies. For those who want to take their research further there is a detailed bibliography that makes it the most up-to-date book in the subject an the perfect tool for both starting out and the more experienced family history researcher.</p>

Holton, Graham S.

Roberts Rinehart

My Ain Folk: Beginner's Guide to Scottish Family History

Tuckwell Press, Ltd.

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