Scottish Talk Notes
The following websites were discussed at the Getting Started with your Family History talk at the Tayroots Genealogy Fair on Saturday, 24th September 2011
www.scotlandspeoplehub.gov.uk - ScotlandsPeople Centre, Edinburgh (£15 for day visit; 2 hour free taster session)
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk - ScotlandsPeople records website (pay-per-view)
www.familysearch.org - FamilySearch (indexes to Scottish records in Historical Records database) (free)
www.freereg.org.uk - FreeREG (free)
www.deceasedonline.com - Deceased Online (burials/cremations for Angus, Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh) (pay-per-view)
www.edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot - Statistical Accounts of Scotland (1790s and 1830s/40s parish descriptions) (free)
www.british-history-ac.uk - hosts 1846 Topographical Dictionary of Scotland by Samuel Lewis (gazetteer) (free)
www.electricscotland.com - hosts 1892-96 Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (free)
www.nls.uk - hosts 20,000 digitised maps and 900 pre-1911 post office directories; also Licensed Digital Collections (newspapers etc) (free)
http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs - British Library 19th Century Newspaper Collection (subscription)
www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk - Edinburgh Gazette (free)
http://tinyurl.com/3bndrht - Glasgow Herald 1806-1990 (free)
http://archive.scotsman.com - the Scotsman Digitised Archive 1817-1950 (access is free via NLS website)
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive - The Times 1785-1985
www.nas.gov.uk/onlinecatalogue - National Records of Scotland catalogue
www.scan.org.uk/catalogue - Scottish Archive Network catalogue
www.nas.gov.uk/onlineregister - National Register of Archives for Scotland catalogue
www.genuki.org.uk - GENUKI gateway site
www.scotlandsfamily.com - Scotland's Family gateway site
http://ukgdl.org.uk - UKGDL: United Kingdom Genealogy Directories and Lists gateway site
www.findmypast.co.uk - FindmyPast - online records vendor
www.ancestry.co.uk - Ancestry - online records vendor
www.safhs.org.uk - Scottish Association of Family History Societies (mainland, Orkney and Shetland)
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/buidhnean/eachdraidh - Comainn Eachdraidh groups (Western Isles and western seaboard)
www.scotsgenealogy.com - Scottish Genealogy Society, Edinburgh
www.discovermypast.co.uk - Discover my Past Scotland magazine (only genealogy magazine dedicated exclusively to Scotland)
www.pharostutors.com - Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd - 2 x 5 week Scottish courses: Scottish Research Online, and Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs
www.scottishancestry.blogspot.com - Scottish GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS)
www.britishgenes.blogspot.com - British GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS)