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Scottish Family History & Genealogy Books
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items Resources and books that will help if you are tracing your family history back to Scotland.
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Websites & Resources
A collection of useful websites that can be accessed anywhere in the world.
The best place to start with DNA and family history, combine them both with this bundle offer.
DNA and Family History Bundle (Ancestry.com)
This is probably the most useful website for family history in Scotland. Search the database for births, deaths and marriage certificates.
Explore your Scottish heritage | Scotland's People Website
A step-by-step guide to reading the handwriting of Scottish documents dating between 1500 and 1700 using facsimiles, mainly from the National Records of Scotland's (NRS) archives.
Scottish Handwriting Kit | Scotland's People
This free self help pack is a step-by-step guide to reading the handwriting of old Scottish documents using facsimiles.
Scottish Handwriting 1500-1700: a self-help pack (FREE)
This website is free to use and is the national database for all records and archives.
Records and archives National Archives of Scotland
Books and How To Guides
Books on amazon and waterstones that are useful in your research. Including surnames, graveyards and step by step guides.
This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Scottish Genealogy is a comprehensive guide to tracing your family history in Scotland.Comparisons are made with records in England, Ireland and elsewhere.
Scottish Genealogy (Fourth Edition)
The ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century and are finding it difficult to go further. John Wintrip guides readers through all the steps they can take in order to delve even more deeply in...
Tracing Pre-Victorian Ancestors: Research Guide
Do you believe you are descended from the aristocracy, or even from royalty? This book shows you how to expand your aristocratic pedigree sideways and backwards, incorporating heraldic records and printed pedigrees.
Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors Guide
I feel this is a good book to start with, if you have just started your ancestry journey this book will tell you what to look out for, what happened during Scotland's administrative past and how to read into records.
Collins Tracing Your Scottish Family History
This book is the ideal companion for anybody researching their family tree. This book is transferable, even if you are not tracing Scottish ancestry you can use this book for other leads. Over ten chapters, it examines the various themes that affect ...
Genealogy by Helen Osborn | Waterstones
If you are out and physically searching for gravestones during your project, this book will help guide you.
Understanding Scottish Graveyards
An essential book in Scottish family history. Black's The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in question
The Surnames of Scotland: Origin & History
A step-by-step guide. This book will help you uncover your Scottish heritage, from identifying your immigrant ancestor to tracking down records in the old country. With help from Scottish genealogy expert Amanda Epperson, you'll learn about church re...
The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide
A great companion if trying to decode Scottish records.
Scottish Handwriting 1150-1650: Reading Intro
Learn from beginner level on how to speak, read and write Gaelic. There is also an audio kit included.
Complete Gaelic Beginner to Intermediate Book.