Scottish Maps

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Maps of the Counties of Scotland, 1580-1928: http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/counties.html. All their Maps of Scotland: http://www.nls.uk/maps/

Gateway to Scotland, Geography Department, University of Edinburgh: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/scotland.html

Britrail British Travel Shop, New York City, phone 1-800-677-8585

Your Maps Online: http://www.yourmapsonline.org.uk
   150 English maps (12 Scots) and etchings available for download; also maps scanned onto CDs for sale

Old Ordnance Survey Maps: http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/

Old Maps - 19th century Ordnance Survey maps. Search by place name, address, coordinate, or use the gazetteer: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

OS Landranger Series, 1.25 inch/ mile, (1:50,000) covers towns, villages, and some farms.

OS Pathfinder Series, 2.5 inch/ mile, (1:25,000) "covers less area, so you must be reasonably sure of where the farm is located. It will show you details down to the fences and includes place names. If the farm has become derelict over the years, it may not show up on either of these, because the maps are current. If you are looking for a farm that was active in say the early 1800's, you may want to consider older/Victorian maps." Susan, in a post to SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com 15 Jan 1999.

Ordnance Survey Street Atlases - scale is 3.5 inches to the mile, cheap (£10 or $17 in paperback)
Two for Scotland: Glasgow and West Central Scotland, Edinburgh and East Central Scotland. "But they cover a wide area, with rural as well as urban detail.... Edinburgh ... includes southern Fife (including Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy); most of Clackmannanshire; most of Stirlingshire; West Lothian; Midlothian; East Lothian; and, of course, Edinburgh.
ISBN for the Edinburgh atlas is 0-540-06181-6." Iain Sommerville, in a post to SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com 16 Sep 1998.

Ordnance Survey products: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/

David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com



Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it. - William James

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Scotland

Scottish Archive Network: http://www.scan.org.uk/

Scottish Wills & Testaments: http://www.scottishdocuments.com/content/default.asp

The Scottish Universities - Their Libraries and Archives: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jimjar/jimjargg.htm

Probate in Scotland, 1500 to 1901 explains how best to search and use the online index to Scottish Probate records, from the earliest surviving records to 1901 at ScottishDocuments.com: http://www.scottishdocuments.com

Clearances: http://home.clara.net/iainkerr/kerr/clearances.htm

Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre: http://www.scottishborders.gov.uk/libraries/

Borders Family History Society: http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/

Old Scottish Borders Photo Archive: http://www.ettrickgraphics.co.uk/index1.htm

General Register Office (GRO - registration of births, marriages, deaths, divorces, adoptions & census): http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/

ScotlandGenWeb: http://www.scotlandgenweb.org/

GenUKI Scotland: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/

Scottish Genealogy Society: http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/

The Scottish Association of Family History Societies: http://www.safhs.org.uk/

Scottish Words (glossary of archaic Scottish terms, modern Scottish words & phrases, terms used in law & property and possessions, such as wills and testaments): http://perso.wanadoo.fr/euroleader/wedderburn/glossary.htm

(The Scots Magazine) WIRDS - Extend Your Vocabulary with our Guide to the Scottish Language: http://www.scotsmagazine.com/words.asp

Scottish Borders Heritage: http://www.scottishbordersheritage.co.uk/

Scottish Borders Tourist Board: http://www.scot-borders.co.uk

Scottish Natural Heritage: http://www.snh.org.uk

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk

Historic Scotland: http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk

See also Scottish Maps: http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2004/01/scottish-maps.html

and Finding Scots: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/finding-scots.html

Gazetteer for Scotland: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/gaztitle.html

Scottish Toolkit: http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ethnic_cat.asp?ethnicity=Scottish

TalkingScot.com: http://www.talkingscot.com/
Meeting place for people with an interest in Scottish genealogy, history and culture


Free Charts and Forms (PDF): http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/ancchart.htm
(Microsoft Word/ WordPerfect/ OpenOffice): http://www.rootsweb.com/~flholmes/forms.htm


For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken

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