A place to add online links that might help you research your families, in Ardchattan and beyond.
Ardchattan
- Statistical accounts
- 1692 Fencible men : NRS SC54/24/1 : ABC archives - not online
- Burial grounds .. http://www.safhs.org.uk/burialgrounds.asp
- Argyll Ardchattan Achnacree
- Argyll Ardchattan Ardchattan (Achnaba)
- Argyll Ardchattan Ardchattan Cemetery (Baile Mhoadon, Bailie Mhaodain)
- Argyll Ardchattan Ardchattan Priory
- Argyll Ardchattan Benderloch
- http://ardchattan.org.uk/gallery/
Thesis links to PhD's etc that mention Ardchattan
The main places
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
.. does not include hearth tax records
Maps of Scotland
National Records of Scotland
http://www.scotlandsfamily.com
http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/
Search the NRAS online register.
Search the Scottish Archive Network catalogue.
find a grave
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Histories of Scottish families
Scottish Record Society
Commissariot of Argyll: Register of Inventories, 1693-1702 Francis J. Grant, W.S., 1909
Free UK site .. more for English records but some Scottish especially in the census when looking for people who have gone "missing"
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ http://www.freecen.org.uk/ http://www.freecen.org.uk/
http://www.freeukgenealogy.org.uk/ and their blog
lots of online books, links, old publications
Genealogy links
The National Library of Scotland has a wide range of genealogical resources
Deaths
Deceased online - a pay to view database linking a variety of resources, check how much information might be available in these registers.
Newspapers
- British Newspaper Archive
- Radio times 1923 - 2009 Oban http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=0&q=oban
Argyll
Family trees .. BEWARE . . these are not reliable sources
- Ancestry - and our collaborative Ardchattan tree that needs a lot of work
- [*My Heritage
- Wikitree
- Family Search
- Geni
Archive databases
Morayshire : http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp
general history
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/higherscottishhistory/index.asp
http://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/ A website on the history of migration to Britain:
LAHS articles
http://www.lahsoc.org.uk/journals/journal_2011/13%20McDLornBrooch.pdf Lorn Brooch
red cross search WW1
Aug 2014
- Free First World War Family History Guide
- http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/free-first-world-war-family-history-guide
download it here.. not sure how long it will be there - : http://cdn.immediatecontent.com/websites/wdytya-magazine/secure-content/special/WDYTYA_WW1_2014.pdf
[*www.greatwar.co.uk The Great War]
Rolls of Honour - National Library of SCotland
Glasgow
thesis archives
Mitchell Iibrary
[* CRASSOC .. caledonian railway]
Images
http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into-public-domain.html
National Library of Scotland digital galleries
family history in National Library of Scotland digital galleries
Maps
https://www.google.co.uk/maps
http://maps.nls.uk
- Newsletter of the Scottish Maps forum - https://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subject-info/cairt
Software
http://www.zoompast.org/
http://www.twile.com Timeline .. now in with find my past
online archive and searching
Societies
THE GLASGOW & WEST OF SCOTLAND FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
[*www.safhs.org The Scottish Association of Family History Societies]
Tay Valley FHS
Association of Scottish Genealogists & Researchers in Archives
Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society
Family and Community Historical Research Society (£21.00)
Surnames
https://macintyregathering.com/
DNA help
https://www.facebook.com/groups/geneticgenealogytipsandtechniques/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/scottishdna/
Youtubes
https://youtu.be/-9Cm1tkLtxc John MacFarlanes talk on Muckairn folk and folklore
other places which are random and might cost you money for records that are available elsewhere
Old Scottish
Ebay search for names and places
research and genealogy blogs / newsletters
https://blog.nrscotland.gov.uk
https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/xtrafeb18news.htm
Tax records
*www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk Hearth tax, servant taxes, horse tax,
http://gams.uni-graz.at/context:htx - new site summer 2019, few records yet
Research resources
Wayback archive genealogy resources including USA census microfiches - like 1920 https://archive.org/details/1920_census
[*www.WolframAlpha.com - all sorts of lists of data]
- Scottish Genealogy
- Ancestry
- My heritage users group
Ancestry.com Family History Wiki
The Ancestry.com Wiki is made up of four kinds of fantastic content:
- The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
- Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
- Other great Ancestry.com content
- Content added by public
https://genealogybargains.com/newest-bargains/
Google alerts - set up a search for surnames, special places, etc that will be emailed to you
We are creating this wiki for the community, near and far, to work together to develop an encyclopedia of the natural, family and social history of Ardchattan.
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