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ElectricScotland Turns 10
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In today's Internet
business environment, companies come and go quickly. So it is a
pleasure to note in passing the continued growth -- and 10th
anniversary -- of the web site at
www.electricscotland.com
A founding member of
the USII, electricscotland.com was created as a way to to explore the
history of Scotland, the Scots and people and places of Scots descent
around the world. The site launched in March, 1997.
Alastair McIntyre,
the owner, created and managed the site from his home in Grangemouth,
Stirlingshire, Scotland. The site is hosted in Stone, Kentucky, by
former board member and founding member Steve May.
When it was founded,
there was little information about the history of Scotland and Scots
on the web. In addition, there was very little taught in the Scottish
or US education system about the immigration of Scots and the impact
they had on other nations -- including their role in starting the US
Civil War.
Today,
electricscotland.com has some 150,000 web pages of information, with
sections on the Scots of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Argentina, Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, Iceland, Poland, Africa,
and Russia. Some 120 antiquarian books have been made available on
the site for research, including information on the lesser-known
Ulster Scots (or Scots-Irish).
