Genealogy

If you run or know about any websites that would be of help to members who are trying to trace their ancestors please list them here with a short discription. If you are trying to find out more about your family history I hope you will find the information here useful, please check the 'drop down tabs' for links to external sites. If you have any questions or need to know how to get started please check out Rosemary Miles's group 'Our Family' I'm sure you will find it very useful.

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Comment by Denis on July 16, 2011 at 10:30pm: I'm family menger of the www.clan-wood.org.uk

Comment by Charlie Clark on February 6, 2011 at 8:44pm: Hi

Try the national Archives in Kew or their website

Comment by Michael McLaurin on February 6, 2011 at 3:43pm: Does anyone know of a source for researching emigration records in the late 18th century?

Specifically, my immigrant grandfather sailed from Port Appin in 1790 and landed in Wilmington, North Carolina. This I have from several genealogies that have been done on our family. However, I would like to prove certain aspects of the genealogy myself.

Comment by Scott Marshall on January 9, 2011 at 1:18am: my heritage, good software, smart matches, reasonable costs

Comment by Charlie Clark on January 6, 2011 at 9:25pm: I go to register house every so often if anyone is stuck with their Scottish family tree

Comment by mauro casale on December 29, 2010 at 8:27pm: MAGIONCALDA MAXIOCALIDA

Comment by Sherrell Frederick on November 18, 2010 at 8:36am: I am a member of the Graham Clan and the Stewart Clan. The Stewart Clan that goes back to King Robert the Bruce

Comment by Kathleen Seay on August 25, 2010 at 1:42pm: Gunn is my Clan. The members of the Clan left before the battle at Culloden Muir. We have recorded the history over the years. Some has been lost but has been retained.

Comment by Pamela Drake on August 17, 2010 at 7:45am: The members at the British Genealogy forum will always try to help with tracing Scottish roots. It is totally free, too.

Comment by Graham Evan MacDonell on January 8, 2010 at 5:00pm: A GEM of a find, if I say so myself (whose initials are GEM)! I've printed it off and will frame it and put it up on the wall in my den.

An admirable sentiment and inspirational words when I struggle to find someone's fifth-great-grandfather, but when I do and we then find the social and historical context, it makes it all worthwhile. Cheers, Graham

Comment by David Taylor on January 8, 2010 at 9:41am: Morning Graham, Unfortunately I can't claim to be the author of these lines!! They came to me from a distant cousin, a lady who was historian of Glen Esk in North Angus and who founded one of Scotland's earliesr Country Life museums. They weren't hers either - must do some research on that one.

Here's another, long known as the Genealogists' Creed!! This is my favourite - it almost brings a tear to my eye!!!!

THE GENEALOGIST'S CREED

From "The Pursuit of Pedigree" (1928)
by Hector McKechnie, BA, LL.B

on the conclusion of his book discussing the sources available to the Scottish genealogist.
This book has long been superseded by other works on the subject.

“Such are probably the main sources for the Scots genealogist. Others there are and many of them; but life is too short to enable anyone to reach finality. The spare hours and vacations of a year or two will not have been wasted if the searcher has faithfully followed out his quest. He will have initiated himself into the mysteries of old time script, and become familiar with the quaint diction of long ago. In some degree at any rate he must have read the thoughts and dreams of many who have passed that way before. Ancestors long dead and forgotten will have arisen to befriend him. To rescue from oblivion one's forebears, to revive their memories, and to renew or replace the worn inscriptions on their graves, cannot but give some satisfaction. Even to catch something of the leisured spirit of bygone days, and of the conception of a life more lasting and more worthwhile than that of the individual, is in itself no slight achievement. If one can look back along a line of ancestors, however humble and however poor, it affords certain stability and strength, and a just sense of proportion. Thus one can re-live the centuries, and picture each man as he came and went, and when one's own day comes, the great unknown may lose a little of its loneliness.”

Comment by Graham Evan MacDonell on January 8, 2010 at 12:43am: David, as you have so aptly pointed out, there is so much more to study, to understand, to respect and consider when studying Scottish history than straight facts about people on a family tree chart. Although I have experienced a 57 year hiatus from Scotland, I am making up for it by learning all that I can..and - hopefully - being involved on this forum will help me in that regard. Thanks for your inspirational words. Graham

Comment by David Taylor on January 7, 2010 at 9:24pm: Here is something for the genealogist, or anyone who would study Scottish history. . . .

“Study their monuments, their gravestones, their epitaphs, on the spots where they lie;
study, if possible, the scenes of the events, their aspect, their architecture, their geography;
the tradition which has survived the history; the legend which has survived the tradition;
the mountain, the stream, the shapeless stone, which has survived even history and tradition and legend.”

Comment by Graham Evan MacDonell on January 4, 2010 at 4:09am: Comment by Graham Evan MacDonell on January 3, 2010 at 04:04 a.m.
Professional Genealogical Researcher specialising in Clans of the Great Glen, Clan Donald, and clans or families of the northern Highlands as well as in the descendants of the Jacobite Army at Culloden on April 16, 1746 ("The Children of Culloden".
Wishing to network with genealogists in the Highlands and Islands..

Comment by Mary Poole on September 5, 2009 at 7:44am: Found this one JOHN ROSS - International Genealogical Index / BI
Gender: Male Birth: 1893 Airdens, , Sutherland, Scotland

John Gran Menzies ROSS (AFN: 14GW-LF8) Pedigree
Sex: M Family
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Event(s) Birth: 21 Nov 1888 Dundee, Angus, Scotland Death: 16 Sep 1965 Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Try this website http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

Comment by BluenScottish on August 7, 2009 at 9:52am: Im looking for Grandfather from Dundee scotland JOHN ROSS maybe born 1893 father james keay ross married to Anna B Ross married John desperate to get marriage cert and his birth cert Help must get fast for visa

Comment by Adele McLennan on May 26, 2009 at 5:46pm: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/ http://www.ancestry.com / http://www.ancestry.ca
Great site with lots of various records, depending on which country you're looking at: census, military, immigration, etc

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk - mainly, if you fill in your family tree, it will tell you if you have matches or not. I have connected with several cousins for both myself and my husband.

Comment by Kirsty F Wilkinson on May 26, 2009 at 8:46am: Lot of people think it's an -ology!

Comment by Our Scotland (Sean Whittaker) on May 26, 2009 at 7:08am: Thanks for the info and help Kirsty (I was so pleased I remembered the 'a', shame I added the 'o'!)