Tree Tips, Tweaks, and Treasures

Date: Apr 2023
Surnames/tags: McAdoo McAdow

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Contents 1 Archives of Old Bulletin Board Groups 2 Cemetery / Burial Research Sites 3 Free Online Local Genealogy Resources 3.1 Links to Ulster and Irish Online Resources 3.2 Links to Scottish Online Resources 3.3 The Paywall Genealogy Resources 3.4 U.K. 3.5 USA 4 Handy Date Calculators and Convertors 5 Useful WT Utility Browser Extensions 6 Useful WT Apps by WikiTree Developers

Archives of Old Bulletin Board Groups

McAdoo Family Genealogy Discussion Group Archive at Ancestry.Com bulletin boards. 134 Threads and 380 Messages in Posts from 1999-2017. Free Access.Search Archive Here.

McAdoo Family Genealogy Discussion Group Archive at Genealogy.Com bulletin boards from 1998-2014. Search Archive Here.

McAdow Family Genealogy Discussion Group Archive at Ancestry.Com bulletin boards. 33 Messages and 14 Threads in Posts from 2003-2014. Free Access. Search Archive Here.

McAdow Family Genealogy Discussion Group Archive at Genealogy.Com bulletin boards from 2004-2008. Search Archive Here.

McAdoo Clan website by Jim McAdoo at tribalpages.com. 2004-2021. Click Here. You will need to email Jim at the address provided for the access code.

John B. Robb's Website Link Up Here. Many useful tips, tricks, and research info from a professional genealogist. Download PDF of his 'must read" paper on "The Scottish Onomastic Child Naming Pattern": Download PDF Here. A free and helpful guide for using given names to assist search for parents and grandparents, particularly in the wife's maiden name lines.

USGenWeb Project. Volunteer and local free genealogy on the internet. Link Up Here.

Cemetery / Burial Research Sites

FindaGrave aka FG website Link Up Here. The world’s largest gravesite collection of tombstone photos, cemetery information, and memorials. User maintained. Membership is free.

BillionGraves website Link Up Here. Similar to FindAGrave but pushing a GPS positioning system approach

Dead Fred genealogical photo archive Link Up Here. Free, searchable index by surname of user-uploaded photos of dead relatives and others.

Free Online Local Genealogy Resources

Links to Ulster and Irish Online Resources

From Ireland: Free Irish Genealogy site by Dr. Jane Lyons. Link Up Here.

Ireland Genealogy Projects site. Link Up Here.

Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives site, over 170,000 headstones. Link Up Here.

County Donegal Genealogy Resources, mostly 18th to early 20th centure resources. Link Up Here.

County Donegal, Barony of Raphoe 1630 Muster Roll men at arms under Plantation undertakers Link Up Here.

County Tyrone CoTyroneIreland.com with useful 17th-century Genealogical Research sources covering Counties of Tyrone, Donegal, Londonderry & Fermanagh. Link Up Here.

Ulster Settlers Database at Clericus Digital Humanities research project of St. Patrick's College Maynooth on the prosopography of the group of largely Protestant settlers who arrived during the multiple Plantations of Ulster by the British Crowns. The group became known as Ulster Scots after arrival in Ireland or as Scotch-Irish as they were known after migrating again from Ulster to the Crown Colonies in North America. Link Up Here. A free access resource.

Rebellion, Plantation, and War, WikiTree space page by Alan Watson and the Ireland Project. Link Up Here for historical context on the Plantation of the Ulster-Scots in northern Ireland in the 1600s. Free access.

Hunter Collection, Professor R.J. Hunter specialized in the Ulster Province history of the early 1600s, the period of the Ulster Plantation, and was particularly interested in the contribution of the English to the shaping of the province during this era. Link Up Here.

Links to Scottish Online Resources

Electric Scotland "The largest and most comprehensive site on the history and culture of Scotland and the Scots at home and abroad. Started in 1997 in Scotland we cover every aspect of Scottish history and the Scots Diaspora." Link Up Here.

Gazetter for Scotland, a vast geographical encyclopedia, featuring details of towns, villages, bens, and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles. The first comprehensive gazetteer produced for Scotland since 1885, it includes tourist attractions, industries, and historical sites, together with histories of family names and clans, biographies of famous Scots, and descriptions of historical events associated with Scotland. The network of connections between all of these entries makes this gazetteer unique. We have included the text of Groome's 19th Century Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland to provide a historical perspective on many of the places we describe. Link Up Here.

National Library of Scotland’s old maps website is by far the most definitive and accessible mapping collection in the UK. With thousands of old maps of Scotland from 1560-1964, it's a great resource for seeing the places where your Scottish ancestors lived in detail. Link Up Here.

National Records of Scotland, (The NRS) is a Non-Ministerial Department of the Scottish Government. Its purpose is to collect, preserve and produce information about Scotland's people and history and make it available to inform current and future generations. It was established on 1 April 2011, following the merger of the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) and the National Archives of Scotland (NAS). For administrative purposes, the NRS sits within the Scottish Government’s Constitution and External Affairs portfolio.Link Up Here.

Scottish Association of Family History Societies or SAFHS publishes certain guides and registers that are useful in Scottish genealogy. Link Up Here.

Scotland's Places, a free resource that lets you explore thousands of records about Scotland simply by searching for a place name, clicking on a map, or typing in your postcode. Search results bring together three national collections so that you can easily find maps, photographs, and written records about your chosen place. Link Up Here.

Scotland's People a joint website for official Scottish Government records and archives maintained by a partnership between the National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. Link Up Here. Membership is free but certain copies of documents and certified copies are pay-as-you-go or require Scottish residence or citizenship.

The Paywall Genealogy Resources

Ancestry.Com Link Up Here. Every genealogist knows who they are. The biggest and best, but at a monthly subscription cost +++. Have a 14-day free trial subscription.

MyHeritage.Com Link Up Here. Another monthly subscription genealogical site with a 14-day free trial.

RootsIreland.ie Link Up Here. Another subscription genealogical site claims 23 Million Irish, mostly Catholic, records. No free trial, US$ 264 annual subscription with 6 months, 1-month, and 1-day subscription options.

U.K.

GENUKI, the UK and Ireland equivalent of the USGenWeb Project, a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland. It is a non-commercial service, maintained by a charitable trust and a group of volunteers. Link Up Here.

USA

Free Index Collections at Ancestry.Com Link Up Here. Free searchable online digital collections hosted by Ancestr.Com.

PERSI, the premier subject index for genealogy and local history periodicals, that is produced by the staff of The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library. This valuable resource provides more than 3 million citations to readily-available periodical sources.Link Up Here.

Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Link Up Here. Outstanding collections of US-centric genealogy collections with a free online searchable database and links to digital resources. Plus shared books and documents on loan through affiliations with your local public library, maybe.

FamilySearch website Link Up Here. This is probably the largest and best free genealogical research portal online. Free membership. Access to many public digital databases and official records repositories.

U.S. National Archives Link Up Here. Free searchable U.S. government records databases and repositories of census data, military records, and others.

U.S. Library of Congress Link Up Here. Searchable digital collections and data repositories for history, genealogy, and much much more.

Handy Date Calculators and Convertors

Julian / Gregorian Calendar Date Convertor. A two-way convertor of dates in the Julian and Gregorian calendar systems. Julian/Gregorian.

Convert Regnal Years to Calendar Years. Monarchs of England from William I (the Conqueror through Elizabeth II. Regnal Year Converter. Tabular list of Regnal Years for English Monarchs Tabular Listing.

Regnal Years of Scottish Monarchs Dunbar, Archibald Hamilton. 1906. 2nd Edition. Scottish Kings: A revised chronology of Scottish History, 1005-1625, with notices of the principal events, tables of regnal years, pedigrees, tables, calendars, etc. Edinburgh: D. Douglas. PDF Download.

Roman to Arabic Numeral Convertor. A handy Roman Numeral Convertor.

Useful WT Utility Browser Extensions

Grammarly is a very useful spelling checker, grammar checker, and punctuation checker. Grammarly works as an extension inside Chrome and other browsers directly in a WikiTree profile editing window. A must-have tool. It is fully customizable with many features that can be turned on or off. Check the settings within the App after installation.

Notepad ++ is a free stand-alone text editor that is FAR SUPERIOR to Windows Notepad or MS Word. Notepad++ is a very powerful text and source code editor for coding and also for composing formatted ASCII text for copying and pasting directly to WikiTree profiles without any "smart quotes", "format code", or other word processing artifacts.

Zotero Connector is a free, easy-to-use, open-source browser extension tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, and cite references. It automatically senses content as you browse the web and allows you to save items to Zotero with a single click.

Useful WT Apps by WikiTree Developers

WikiTree AGC is the official WikiTree browser extension that adds advanced functionality for the automatic cleanup of imported GEDCOM files. Available as a free download from the Chrome Web Store. It is fully customizable with many features that can be turned on or off. Check the settings within the App after installation.

WikiTree Browser Extension is the official WikiTree browser extension that adds capability and other enhancements to WikiTree. Available as a free download from the Chrome Web Store. It is fully customizable with many features that can be turned on or off. Check the settings within the App after installation.

WikiTree Sourcer is a browser extension that assists in finding and citing genealogy sources for use on wikitree.com. Available as a free download from the Chrome Web Store. It is fully customizable with many features that can be turned on or off. Check the settings within the App after installation.

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