Hugh Reekie's Instant Scottish Links Page - last updated 19 March 2007
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Hugh suggests you look at:

Useful web links for "background info" etc - & some specilaist items - for Family History searching in Scotland:

http://www.scotlandinter.net/Communitywebs.htm
- access to community web sites - local history - over 200 communities, many small

http://www.scotlandinter.net/libraries.htm
- Scottish libraries - many with search facilities

http://edina.ac.uk/statacc/ - 1790s & 1845
- Statistiscal Accounts for Scotland
- for fee sevice - not cheap!

http://www.scottishdocuments.com/ - Scottish wills - cover a large timespan
      As of 1 Sept 2005 - Obsolete now see http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

http://www.safhs.org.uk/ - Scottish Association of Family History Societies
- Only useful for lists of Scottish Regional Family History Societies, and a publication list

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/Genealogy.html - list of printed genealogy books for Scotland

http://www.abebooks.com/
- find that rare out-of-print book, and buy it - use the subject search field
- eg "Local history" and a county name

http://www.scotsfind.org/ - a wealth of old Scottish documents, (e.g session minutes for 1660s) in PDF format, searchable. you can get some real gems here!!

http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/names.htm
- Scots "middle name" - surname tradition
- access to Scots Regimenrs websites

http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/SurnamesLists.html
- but DO NOT click on "Scotland" - click on the county you are after!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scottishroots/
- good back ground stuff

http://www.genuki.org.uk/Societies/
- two GENUKI pages - Surname lists are powerful access tools - when they hit the right person!

http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/Andrew.Ottawa.html
- St Andrew's Society of Ottawa

http://www.scotclans.com/help/clan_societies.html
- join your own Clan or Scots family Society!
- this is an incomplete list - also try a Google search

http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/weblinks/weblinks1.asp
a good general start for non-census non church information

for ENGLISH & WELSH City & Town Directories start with
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/howto1.asp

http://www.amostcuriousmurder.com/JonesFS.htm
- The first, or 1786, Jones/Lumsden Glasgow Directory

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glasgow/index-glas.htm
The Glasgow 1927 Directory is online -- courtesy of Jim Bundy and Andrew R Nicoll.

http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/resources/sbti/intro.html
- An index created by Scottish National Library Staff - on various aspects of the book trades

http://www.scotsfind.org/kirkcaldy_access/kirkcaldie.pdf
- an example of a Victorian book on the web - selected Kirk Session items from Kirkaldy, fife 1650- 1720

- some advice when searching. Find out the "usual entry" for the trade you are looking for eg Cow Houses instead of Dairies - search for trades first, before people. Try different names Wm and Jno as well as William and John

If you are getting nowhere, search for a similar entry that you know about - one from a publication or web page you have; this will give you "search leads" to re-try for what you really want.