Scotland

Scotland


Capital Edinburgh

Patron Saint St Andrew

Currency Pound sterling

From the famous St Andrews golf course, to romantic castles steeped in history, via whisky distilleries and the famous Loch Ness monster, Scotland is a country of diverse scenery in rugged countryside. It is also known for its famous haggis, the recipe for which varies, but is made using a sheep's stomach bag filled with a mixture of sheep's offal, oatmeal, suet, stock, onions and spices.

Scottish Records Links to useful information about finding your Scots Ancestors.

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Aberdeenshire	Angus/Forfarshire	Argyllshire	Ayrshire
Banffshire	Berwickshire	Buteshire	Caithness
Clackmannanshire	Cromartyshire	Dumfriesshire	Dunbartonshire
East Lothian/Haddingtonshire	Edinburgh	Fife	Glasgow
Inverness-shire	Kinross-shire	Kirkcudbrightshire	Lanarkshire
Morayshire	Nairnshire	Orkney	Peebles-shire
Perthshire	Renfrewshire	Ross-shire	Roxburghshire
Selkirkshire	Shetland	Stirlingshire	Sutherland
West Lothian/Linlithgowshire	Western Isles	Wigtownshire

General Scotland Links

The counties within Scotland have changed over the course of time, the three major
political acts which changed the local government administration of the counties were

Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994

A description of the changes and clickable maps of the pre 1890 and 1890-1975 counties
can be found at Traditional Counties Of Scotland

Portal and Directory Sites

These sites give literally hundreds of links to everything Scottish

• Scotlands Family Genealogy Portal
• Rootsweb Mailing Lists
• Rampant Scotland Directory
• Scottish Archives Network
• North Highland Archives
• Ness Historical Society
• The Word on the Street Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland
• Report on the progress of the NAS digitisation project and samples of the types of documents being scanned
• Scottish handwriting: Online tuition in the palaeography of Scottish Documents
• Statistical Accounts of Scotland
• The Scottish Genealogy Society Online Catalogue of Monumental Inscriptions publications
• Free place search at Scots Origins
• The "Black Sheep index" of 19th century Scotland
• George and Paula Scottish Links covers many different sites relating to all aspects of Scotland, an alphabetical index allows easy searching to hundreds of websites.

Registration Districts Information

• Post 1855 Districts and Parish List; PDF Format
• Indexes to the LDS film numbers of Birth, Marriage and Death Records in Scotland
• List of what registers are available at GROS for each parish

Maps and Historical Descriptions

• History of the subdivisions of Scotland
• Scotland Maps, Regions and Places
• Scotland Gazetteer
• Explanation of Wills and Testaments in Scotland
• Glossary of archaic and modern terms within Scotland
• Another Glossary of Archaic Scottish terms
• National Library Of Scotland Map Collection

Images, people and places

• Views of Old Scotland
• Old Photos of Scotland
• Undiscovered Scotland

History of Scotland

• Scottish History
• Scottish History Online
• Scotland History
• Scotland Gazetteer; Timeline and History
• National Library of Scotland
• The Highland clearances
• Clearances, 100 million stories A web project to tell some of these
• Highland Clearances,especially in Sutherland,and lots of links
• The Highland Clearances, & its causes, effects and results
• Scottish Mining Villages
• Old Scottish Occupations
• History and Culture of The Highlands

Scottish Genealogy Sites

• National Archives of Scotland search page
• The Scottish Genealogy Society
• Scotlands Family Tree, the friendly forum
• Ancestral Scotland
• Scotland Genealogy a free resource
• Scots Origins
• ScotsFind Scottish Genealogy
• TalkingScot
• Tom Paterson's Scottish Roots
• Scotland BMD Exchange

Parish and Census Records

• Freecen Census Project
• Scottish Census Records

Clans and Surnames

• Scots Clans
• Clans, Lineages and Surnames Portal
• Clan Map of Scotland

Military Websites

• The 91st and 93rd become the Sutherland Highlanders
• Kings Own Scottish Borderers
• Scottish Military Historical Society
• The Scots at warMen and women who served in Scottish or Commonwealth Scottish units

Scottish Castles and Churches

• Scottish Castles Photo Library
• Castles, Abbeys and Churches
• Castles In Scotland; County Listings
• Scottish Catholic Archives
• Scottish Churches
• Church Links and Lists
• Historic Churches; an A-Z
• Photographs of some UK Churches (all of U.K. including Scotland)

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