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.
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Graham Holton is Librarian at Jordanhill Library at the University of Strathclyde Jack Winch is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Strathclyde
Packed with hints and ideas for all interested in Scottish family history. The book is an excellent guide for beginners with hints on how to get the best of information that relatives can supply, how to choose a computer programme and where to find useful records. For the more experienced genealogist there are sections on records that may be found about specific occupations, or subjects e.g non-conformist records. There is a good chapter to how to present your family history ! This is one book that would be a useful additon to any family historian's bookshelf. -- Coontin Kin, Shetland Family History Society This book has a wealth of advice about traditional and non traditional sources ! I liked the down to earth, simple explanations ! you will also find a wealth of good topics to explore such as valuation rolls, poor law records, educational sources and occupational records among others. There is an excellent list of useful contact names and addresses. -- Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society This book is particularly welcome because many of the general guides to genealogy are written with English and Welsh family history in mind! Scotland is another country, with its own history, law and customs, with which researchers, to be successful, need to become familiar. Practical Family History Packed with hints and ideas for all interested in Scottish family history. The book is an excellent guide for beginners with hints on how to get the best of information that relatives can supply, how to choose a computer programme and where to find useful records. For the more experienced genealogist there are sections on records that may be found about specific occupations, or subjects e.g non-conformist records. There is a good chapter to how to present your family history ! This is one book that would be a useful additon to any family historian's bookshelf. This book has a wealth of advice about traditional and non traditional sources ! I liked the down to earth, simple explanations ! you will also find a wealth of good topics to explore such as valuation rolls, poor law records, educational sources and occupational records among others. There is an excellent list of useful contact names and addresses. This book is particularly welcome because many of the general guides to genealogy are written with English and Welsh family history in mind! Scotland is another country, with its own history, law and customs, with which researchers, to be successful, need to become familiar.
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