Finding Scottish Ancestors Online
In this Sassy Jane eBook, we’ll explore essential and lesser-known sites for Scottish research. Search strategies for finding parish records, civil registrations, court records, tenant and tax lists, newspapers, and other records are also included.
Find Scottish maps and gazetteers to pinpoint ancestral villages over time. From the Scots-Irish to the 20th-century, understand how waves of emigration – the Scottish Diaspora – affected your ancestors. Help with naming conventions, Scottish handwriting, archaic terms, clans and tartans, Scots DNA and more are included in Finding Scottish Ancestors Online.
Discover more about The Emigrants, this painting of the James MacKay family, who emigrated from the Highlands to New Zealand, in 1844 at Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/174/the-emigrants
Chapter 1: Researching Scottish Immigrant Ancestors
- Searching for Scots Ancestors
- Waves of Emigration from Scotland, 1610-1920
- Scots Emigration/Immigration Resources
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- Scots-Irish
- Colonial America and the US
- Canada
- Australia
- New Zealand
Chapter 2: Scottish Records and Search Strategies
- Before Searching Scottish Records
- Free Online Scotland Resources
- Subscription Scotland Resources Online
Chapter 3. Location and Place Name Research
- ScotlandsPlaces.uk.gov
- A Vision of Britain Through Time
- Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers
- National Library of Scotland Maps
Chapter 4: Supporting Resources
- Books and Maps
- Scottish Archive Network (SCAN)
- Scottish Handwriting
- Surnames, Clans, Tartans
- Research Tutorials
- Scots DNA
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