Discover Your Scottish Ancestry Internet and Traditional Resources

by Holton, Graham S.; Winch, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781570984280
• ISBN10: 157098428X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-23
• Publisher: Roberts Rinehart

Summary

This ideal guide to tracing your Scottish ancestors combines the traditonal methods of researching family history withnew mwthods offered by information technology and the key investigatory tool, the internet.

Author Biography

Jack Winch is a senior lecturer in educational computing at the University of Strathclyde. Graham S. Holton is a librarian at the University of Strathclyde.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Gathering Information From Your Family	p. 13
Recording and Storing Information	p. 24
Basic Sources for Family History	p. 44
Supplementary Sources	p. 60
Family History and the Internet	p. 64
Historical Information	p. 79
Historical Sources pre-1855	p. 98
Presenting Your Family History	p. 112
Family Heritage	p. 123
English, Welsh and Irish Records	p. 138
Interpreting Older Forms of Handwriting	p. 142
List of Web Sites	p. 144
List of Useful Addresses	p. 154
Sample Forms for Obtaining and Recording Information	p. 170
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 200
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