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Anthony Adolph. Collins Tracing Your Scottish Family History
Collins Tracing your Scottish family history. Anthony Adolph
Table of Contents
Introduction
Abbreviations
PART 1 Getting started
CHAPTER 1 How to start your family tree. Ask the family
Sennachies
The internet
Doctor Who’s Dutch cousin
Original records
Storing information
Alexander Matheson
Pedigree conventions
The calendar
Dealing with written records
CHAPTER 2 Archives and organizations
Edinburgh
Archives across Scotland
Edinburgh addresses
The National Register of Archives of Scotland
Genealogical Societies
Seallam!
CHAPTER 3 Scotland’s names
Variant spellings
First names
Middle names
Naming patterns
Surnames
Derivations
Patronymics
Married surnames
The Ragman Rolls
Gaelic place names
Anglicization
Nicknames
Speaking Gaelic
CHAPTER 4 Know your parish
Scotland’s parishes
Local histories
Some historical background
Official guides
Statistical Accounts
Groome and Lewis
Obscure place names
Useful websites
Maps
Other sites
The Ordnance Survey
Finding Cnocaneach
PART 2 The main records
CHAPTER 5 General Registration
General Registration records
Access to the records
The miraculous year of 1855
Using the records
Births
Birth records always show:
Marriages
Other death records
Deaths
Death traditions
Lateral thinking Conquers all
Minor Registers
Army deaths
Search Tips
Tracing living relatives
Naming difficulties
Adoption
The four Walters
Walter Hooks the first
Walter Hooks the second
Walter Hooks the third
Walter Hooks the fourth
CHAPTER 6 Censuses
Browsing the original returns
The 1841 census
Crossed out?
1851-1901
1911 onwards
Using censuses
Problem? Watt problem?
CHAPTER 7 Church registers
Old Parochial Registers
Defects in the OPRs
Perils to avoid
Searching the originals
Baptismal customs
OPR births/baptisms
Illegitimacy
OPR marriages
(Ir) Regularity
Divorces
Graves
Marriage contracts
OPR burials
Gretna Green
Other records of the Established Church
Kirk sessions
Sean Connery of Glenbucket
Robert Burns in the records
Failed farms
Descendants
The Burns’ Family Tree
A GMTV Burns connection
Your family and Burns
More about Burns
CHAPTER 8 Religious denominations
The Presbyterian Church
Clergy
Episcopalians
J.K. Rowling’s clerical ancestry
Cameronians
The Secession Churches
Further reading
Quakers
Methodists
Catholics
The ’15, the ’45 and the last of the Stuarts
Hugh’s who?
Irish Catholics
Italian Catholics
Irvingites
Huguenots
Jews
CHAPTER 9 Testaments, deeds and other useful records
Deeds
Debts
Directories
Newspapers
Poll Books and Electoral Registers
Tax lists
Testaments, inventories and latterwills
How to search
James Watt’s testament
Scotland’s Courts
Affairs of State
Lawyers
PART 3 How they lived
CHAPTER 10 What people did
Agriculture
Armed Forces: the Army
A Scotsman at war
The Royal Air Force
Royal Marines
Royal Navy
80 years
The Merchant Navy
Trinity House
Clergy
Coalminers
Customs and Excise
Doctors
Freemasons
Government officials
Industrial workers
Innkeepers
Jacobites
Literati
Lawyers
Shipbuilding
Lunatics
Members of Parliament
Motorcar owners
Railwaymen
Postmen
Schools and Universities
CHAPTER 11 The burghs
Johnson and Boswell
Burgesses
Using the records
Non-burgesses
The Patersons of Selkirk
CHAPTER 12 Landholders
Grants of land
Inheriting land
Technical terms
Issues of inheritance
Tailzies
Know your sasine
Sasines
Valuation rolls
Heraldry
Estate papers
Tacksmen and tenancies
The past comes to life
CHAPTER 13 Farmers and crofters
Farmers
Cottars and labourers
Runrig
Sheilings
The Poor
Heritors
Potato famine
Crofting
Kelp
The Clearances
The Napier Commission
Crofting life in the twentieth century
CHAPTER 14 Clans and tartans
The clan system
Chiefs and clansmen
Clan lands
Highland and Lowland
The end of the clan system
Tartan
More tartans
Clan badges
Sources for clans
The genealogical implications of the clan system
MacLeods in Badnaban
PART 4 Comings and goings
CHAPTER 15 Emigration
General sources and techniques for emigration
Top tips for finding the origins of migrant Scots
Online sources
To England
To Ireland
Clan Campbell
To Continental Europe
To India
The Clayhills
To the Americas and New Scotland
Whisky
North American sources
To the Antipodes
Darien scheme
A Norwegian-Scots Australian
CHAPTER 16 The origins of Scotland’s people
The Picts
The Angles
The Kings of Dalriada
Gododdin, Strathclyde and Galloway
Ancient sources
Milesian origins
The great rock of Dunnad
Vikings
The use of ancient genealogies
MacLeods
The Norman dynasties
The Stewart dynasty
CHAPTER 17 Genetic evidence
An introduction to DNA tests
‘Deep ancestry’ and how it works
Paterson DNA
Clan DNA
Viking DNA
How to have a DNA test
Useful websites
Useful Addresses. National repositories
Regional repositories
Organizations
Armed services records (for last 80 years)
Index
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Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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3. You can hire a genealogist or record agent. Genealogists like myself charge higher fees and organize and implement all aspects of genealogical research. Record agents charge less and work to their clients’ specific instructions, for example: ‘Please list all Colquhouns in the Old Parochial Registers of Oban between 1730 and 1790’. Most archives have a search service, or a list of local researchers. Many advertise in genealogy magazines or at www.genealogypro.com, www.expertgenealogy.com and www.cyndislist.org, and some belong to the Association of Scottish Genealogists and Researchers in Archives, www.asgra.co.uk, whose members charge a minimum rate of £20 per hour, though membership does not guarantee quality. The NAS website has links to some genealogists on www.nas.gov.uk/doingResearch/remotely.asp.
Most professionals are trustworthy, and many offer excellent services, though ability varies enormously. Generally, the more prompt and professional the response, and neater the results, the more likely they are to be any good. Hiring help is not ‘cheating’: if you only want one record examined but are not sure it will contain your ancestor, it makes no sense to undertake a long journey when you can pay someone a small fee for checking for you, and a local searcher’s expertise may then point you in the right direction anyway.
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