Gathering the Clans - Tracing
Scottish Ancestry on the Internet by Alan
Stewart is a book useful to any genealogist with Scottish ancestry.
Scottish Ancestry is easy to
trace on the Internet because Scotland is leading the world in making
its family history records available online. So now, wherever you
live, it is easy to grow a Scottish family tree. All the main records
are already on line: births, marriages and deaths (from 1855), wills
and inventories from 1500 and ten-yearly census returns from 1841
through 1901. In the near future, church, land, poor relief, taxation
and heraldry records are expected to become available too.
Whether new to family history or
to Scottish research, or to the use of the Internet for either,
everyone will find this book a comprehensive and easy-to-follow
guide. As well as dealing with the records of those who left Scotland
for a better life in North American, Australasia or even England and
Wales, the author explains the sources for ancestors who joined the
forces, how DNA can help research and the benefits of joining a family
history society. Appendices provide lists of useful websites, details
of charges for access to on-line records and much information
unavailable elsewhere.
This book will be welcomed
wherever Scottish ancestry is traced and as much by professional
genealogists as by amateurs and beginners.
Alan Stewart was born and brought
up in Edinburgh and has spent over twenty years tracing his ancestry
to many parts of Scotland - from Caithness to the borders and from
Skye to Aberdeenshire. He has also found connections in England,
Ireland and India. His articles on his own family history have been
published.
Most of Alan's research was done
the old way, using paper records. Since the main sources became
available on the Internet, however, he has become an enthusiastic user
and is a member of the UserGroup for the ScotlandsPeople
website. After working for many years as an information technology
manager, he now writes regularly about computers and the Internet for
the Financial Times and contributes to other publications,
including Encyclopedia Britannica. The lead author of two
recent reports on "Wi-Fi" - wireless Internet access - and consultant
editor for the Hutchinson Dictionary of Computing and the Internet,
he has also written a careers book How to Make it in IT. He
lives near Bedford, England.
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interesting and useful publication (Gathering the Clans by
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