View our terms and conditions for use of our web site and our privacy policy. Visit Electric Scotland's Aois Community, our social networking site. Find our contact information and learn more about us. The Home Page of Electric Scotland ES Common Header Bar
This is where you'll find a comprehensive resource on Scottish accommodations. Electric Scotland's Article Service where you can both read articles and post your own. Beth's Newfangled Family Tree is a monthly publication giving genealogy advice as well as what's hapening on the Scottish Scene around the world. This is where you'll find around 300 books on Scottish history that we've published on the site. Our pages where you'll find books and articles about Robert Burns and his work. Gives you some information on the business scene in Scotland. This is where you can view Scottish events around the world and add your own. Learn about the history of Clans and Families of Scotland and the Scots-Irish. The personal site of Alastair McIntyre where he's posted his own mini biography as well as his travel journals. 5 volumes worth of biographies relating to Significant Scots. A weekly newsletter about the political scene in Scotland from the Scots Independent Newspaper. Lots of Scottish recipes along with contributions from our visitors. Play our collection of online games. 6 volume Gazetter on the place names of Scotland. This is our page for trying to give you advice on Genealogy. A FAQ where you go to get answers to frequently asked questions. Information and pictures about Historic places in Scotland such as castles and other properties. Main index page for our very large history section. Children resources including over 800 children's stories and lots of online and offline games. A bit of a catch-all page where you find loads of pages about music, haggis, scots language, culture, religion, humor and lots more. Our nature page where you can explore information on Scottish Wildlife, Plants, Flowers and lots more. Our weekly newsletters archive. Thousands of pictures of Scotland for you to enjoy. Loads of poetry and stories for you to enjoy with many contributions from visitors to our site. Our very own Webcard program which you can use to send online postcard to friends and relatives. Huge resources about the Scots Diaspora around the world and here is where you can find this information. A continually building information resource on the Scots-Irish who emigrated to Ulster and then onto many parts of the world, especially the USA. Create your own family tree with our special software. You can also import and export gedcom files. Our web-based scottish search engine which is a free resource for Scottish companies as well as Scottish organisations around the world. Current Scottish News headlines and links to Scottish news resources. A range of services, both big and small, that we currently offer. Our Tartan pages, giving you access to information on Tartans as well as tartan search engines. Sponsored by House of Tartan. Our travel section where we have loads of suggested tours of Scotland as well as old historic travel books. A wee collection of videos some of which we've produced ourselves. Learn about the last 100 pages we've added to our site which is updated daily.

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Electric Scotland's June 2003 Visitor Survey
We received 1004 completed forms in a 14 day period


General Demographic Information
Here we just need a basic idea of the age, sex and which country you come from.
What age are you? 25 and Under - 2.7%
26-35 - 5.9%
36-45 - 14.2%
46-55 - 29.0%
56-65 - 24.1%
Over 65 - 24.1%
What sex are you? Female - 49.0%
Male - 51.0%
In which country do you live? USA - 66.2%
Canada - 14.9%
Scotland - 5.1%
England - 3.9%
New Zealand - 3.8%
Australia - 3.3%
Europe - 1.5%
Rest of the World - 1.3%

Browsing Habits
Here we are trying to discover how many Scottish web sites you visit and how often.
How often do you visit Electric Scotland? First Time - 6.6%
Daily - 7.9%
Twice a Week - 16.6%
Weekly - 51.2%
Twice a Month - 5.3%
Monthly - 9.1%
Longer - 3.3%
How many other Scottish web sites do you visit on at least a monthly basis? 1 other site - 36.2%
2-5 sites - 48.1%
6-10 sites - 9.4%
11+ sites  - 6.3%
What percentage of your browsing time is spent on Scottish sites? 5%  - 33.4%
10% - 22.6%
25% - 19.0%
50% - 16.5%
75% - 8.5%

Members Only Content
Electric Scotland will always be a FREE site but we are going to launch a "Members Only" web site later this year where you would need to pay for membership. New books on Clans and Scottish history will be made available on pretty much a daily basis (Mon-Fri) through this service. The money raised will be used to employ a person to OCR in content from antiquarian books and other resources as well as to purchase the content. This content will only be available to paid up members.
Would this service be of interest? Yes - 53.6%
No - 46.4%
If of interest what is the most you would pay for such a service on an annual basis? $25 - 80.5%
$35 - 11.2%
$45+  - 8.3%
If of interest would you prefer to pay for this service on a monthly basis instead of annually? No - 70.7%
Yes - 29.3%

Shopping
We are considering working with one Scottish company that provides tartan cloth, kilts and other Scottish products. We were thus wondering how many of you might make use of this service.
Would you purchase tartan, kilts, etc., online from Scotland? No - 15.8%
Perhaps - 54.1%
Yes - 30.1%

Alastair in the USA
As you may know I'm going to be moving to the USA and wondered how many of you might be interesting in hearing of my experiences and the area I'll be living in.
Would you be interested in hearing about Alastair in the USA? No - 18.7%
Yes - 81.3%

Business
Do you visit any Scottish Business Web Sites?
(excluding newspaper sites)
No - 54.1%
Yes - 45.9%

Scottish Weekend
Each year the Odom Library in Georgia puts on a special Scottish Weekend. The library holds the archives of some 125 Scottish Clan Societies in America and is also the home of the Family Tree Newspaper.
Would you like to get information on this event? No - 25.9%
Yes - 74.1%

Flag in the Wind
We'd be interested to know if you read this section of our site and what in particular you read in it.
Do you read the "The Flag" ? No - 44.6%
Yes - 45.4%
If you do read The Flag what do you read? Both - 64.8%
Cultural - 32.8%
Political - 2.4%

Knowledge of Regions/States/Towns
I'd be interested to know if you know where these areas are in the world. I'm always saying that most of us do not have a great knowledge of places other than in our own area so here is a chance to prove me right or wrong :-) To be accurate on this you need to know the precise location of these places so if you have simply heard the name but don't actually know where it's located then answer No!
Do you know where Prince Edward Island is? No - 20.1%
Yes - 79.9%
Do you know where Moultrie is? No - 58.0%
Yes - 42.0%
Do you know where Falkirk is? No - 31.0%
Yes - 69.0%
 

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