Sources-Scotland

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Sources For Scotland

- Reid, Judith P., Family Ties in England, Scotland, Wales, & Ireland (Library of Congress, Washington, 1998)

- Genealogical Research in England, Scotland & Ireland

• Publications of the Scottish History Society (University Press, Edinburgh, 1887-)
• Scottish Burgh Record Society (Edinburgh or Glasgow)
• Scottish Text Society
• Aberdeen Journal. Aberdeen Journal, Notes and Queries (Aberdeen Daily Journal Office, 1908-13)
• Adam, R. J. The Calendar of Fearn (Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1991)
• Anderson, Alan Orr. Early Sources of Scottish History, A.D. 500 to 1286 (Oliver And Boyd, London, 1922)
• Anderson, William. The Scottish Nation (A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1859-)
• Bannatyne Club Publications
• Blackwood, William. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1845)
• Blackwood's Magazine (W. Blackwood, Edinburgh)
• Laurencekirk: Fraser, William Ruxton. History of The Parish and Burgh of Laurencekirk (William Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1880)
• Brodie, Alexander and James. The Diary of Alexander Brodie of Brodie (Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1863)
• Cramond: Wood, John Philip. The Antient and Modern State of the Parish of Cramond (John Paterson, Edinburgh, 1794)
• Burke, John. The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales (Churton, London, 1848)
• Burke, John. Anecdotes of the Aristocracy (Churton, London, 1850)
• Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland Preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1881)
• Chambers, Robert. Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution (W & R Chambers, Edinburgh and London, 1858)
• Cockburn-Hood, Thomas. The House of Cockburn of that Ilk and the Cadets Thereof (Scott and Ferguson, Edinburgh, 1888)
• Cramond, William. The Records of Elgin (Aberdeen, 1903)
• Dowden, John. The Bishops of Scotland (James Maclehose and Sons, Glasgow, 1912)
• Fraser, Sir William. Memorials of the Earls of Haddington (Edinburgh, 1889)
• Free Church of Scotland. "The Home and Foreign Missionary Record of the Free Church of Scotland" (Free Church of Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland)
• Henderson, John A. Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions (Printed for the subscribers, Aberdeen, 1907)
• Henderson, John. Caithness Family History (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1884)
• The History of The Church of Scotland (1668-1879)
• Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff (Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1847-69)
• Jervise, Andrew. Epitaphs and Inscriptions from Burial Grounds and Old Buildings in the North-East of Scotland (Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, 1875)
• Johnston, George Harvey. The Ruddimans in Scotland, Their History and Works (W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh, 1901)
• MacFarlane, Walter. Genealogical Collections (The Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1900)
• MacPhail, S. R. History of the Religious House of Pluscardyn (Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1881)
• McCall, Hardy Bertram. Memoirs of My Ancestors. A Collection of Genealogical Memoranda Respecting Several Old Scottish Families (Watson & Ball, Birmingham, 1884)
• McCall, Hardy Bertram. "Some old families: a contribution to the genealogical history of Scotland" (Watson & Ball, Birmingham 1890)
• Paterson, James. History of the County of Ayr (Thomas George Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1847-1852)
• Peter, David MacGregor. The Baronage of Angus and Mearns (Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1856)
• The Miscellany of the Spalding Club (Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1841-52)
• Mylne, Alexander. Vitae Dvnkeldensis Ecclesiae Episcoporvm, a Prima Sedis Fvndatione, ad annvm M.D.XV (Edinburge, 1823)
• The Orkneyinga Saga, (Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh, 1873)
• Pitcairn, Robert. Criminal Trials in Scotland (William Tait, Edinburgh, 1833)
• The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, First/Second/Third Series (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1877-)
• The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1882-)
• Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1878)
• Salter, Mike. The Castles of Grampian and Angus (Folly Publications, Malvern, 1995)
• Scott, Hew. Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, New Edition (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1915)
• The Scottish Historical Review (Maclehose, Jackson and Co., Glasgow, 1903-)
• Scottish Record Society (Edinburgh, 1897-)
• Shaw, Lachlan. The History of the Province of Moray (Hamilton, Adams and Co London and Thomas D Morison Glasgow, 1882)
• Temple, William. The Thanage of Fermartyn (D. Wylie & Son, Aberdeen, 1894)
• Thomson, Thomas. The Historie and Life of King James the Sext (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1825)
• Vans Agnew, Robert. Sketch of A Genealogical and Historical Account of The Family of Vaux, Vans, or De Vallibus (W. E. Wilmot, Pembroke, 1800)
• Watson, W J. Place-names of Ross and Cromarty (Inverness, Edinburgh and London, 1904)
• Young, Robert. Annals of the parish and burgh of Elgin (Office of the Moray Weekly News, Elgin, 1879)
• Peerage: Crawfurd, George. The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1716)
• Peerage: Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1904-1914)
• Peerage: Owen, William. The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (W. Owen, London, 1790)
• Peerage: Burke, John & Burke, Bernard. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland (Henry Colburn, 1846)
• Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society. "Langholm Parish Old Langholm graveyard: memorial inscriptions" (Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society. Dumfries, Scotland, 2017)
• Hyslop, John, D. "Langholm as it was : a history of Langholm and Eskdale from the earliest times" (Hills and Company. Sunderland, 1912)
• Bardsley, Charles Wareing, MA. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (Henry Frowde, London, 1901)
• Black, George Fraser. The Surnames of Scotland (New York Public Library, New York, New York, 1946)
• Paisley Abbey; Innes, Cosmo. registrum monasterii de passelet (Maitland Club, 1832 Edinburgh)
• Cambuskenneth Abbey. Registrum monasterii de Cambuskenneth (Grampian Club, 1872 Edinburgi)
• The Scottish Clans and Their Tartans (W. & A. K Johnston, Edinburgh)
• Project: Scotland
• Innes, Cosmo. Registrum episcopatus Glasguensis (Ballantyne & Hughes, Edinburgh, 1843)

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External Links

• Scottish History Society volumes: Over 180 volumes, published by the Scottish History Society
• National Library of Scotland has many digitized books and documents available for free online. Book List sorted by family name.
• Red Book of Scotland
• People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1314
• Publications of the Bannatyne Club
• The Scottish Genealogy Society
• Scotlands People
• http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ This is the definitive group of sources from the Scottish GenWeb site
• http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/databank/
• https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIr9ODy4CN1QIVT2p-Ch1ZQAEbEAAYASAAEgIwOvD_BwE this is a pay site but the amount is small. It has all the Old Parish Registers of births, deaths, marriages, census records, wills, a definitive source for researching in Scotland
• http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/195.htm Electricscotland has a lot of well researched articles but some are not as accurate as others. So make sure to double check things but it does at last give you answers that are hard to find.
• http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/scotland/gaelic.html
• https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/
• http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=401500&y=858500&z=130&sv=401500,858500&st=4
• http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/SurnamesLists.html
• http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/smallpox.htm
• https://www.anesfhs.org.uk/guest-home
• https://www.ros.gov.uk/home
• http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/scottish-translator.asp
• https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
• List of pollable persons within the shire of Aberdeen, 1696
• https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/research/research-links
• Inverurie and the earldom of the Garioch
• https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/
• https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/county/aberdeenshire/obituaries/
• The Book of Ellon
• http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/archive/86303881?&mode=transcription
• https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/search/results?keyword=Scotland&startDate=1300&endDate=1600&col1=name&col2=nationality&col3=date&col4=origin&col5=residence&page=1 lists immigrants from Scotland to England before unification
• http://marcellison.com/bbc/war_dead/war_dead_db/
• Transactions of The Banffshire Field Club: 1880-1946