As a professional genealogist, Emma explores archives, churchyards, and online to compile histories, charts, tours, and books for clients. When collecting material for clients or engaging experts in discussions on her podcast, Journeys into Genealogy, and substack of the same name.
Today’s exploration focused on patterns in a family tree, whether from location, industry, physical characteristics, or illnesses. Today’s pattern focuses on places. Emma introduces us to Scots terminology and some remarkable resources available to anyone on the web.
The discussion that followed Emma’s talk today included an outpouring of shared references and experiences. Among the links are:
Exploring Montrose, Scotland
National Library of Scotland Maps Section: maps.nls.uk
National Records of Scotland: nrscotland.gov.uk
GENUKI: A virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland
Scotlands people: scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Kirk Session records: Kirk sessions are local church courts held by the Church of Scotland since 1560
Scottish Archive Network: catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk
Scan Catalog Overview showing Montrose: Search for records where any field contains any of the words montrose
Exploring Kildrummy, Scotland
Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Genealogy on Family Search
BHO — British History Online
Research Tools & Websites
NLS Roy transcription project to learn more about Scottish geography maps.nls.uk/roy
Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society (ANESFHS)
ANESFHS.org.uk (Very helpful people)
A Pharos course by Chris Paton on researching Scottish ancestors (lots of
sources mentioned) pharostutors.com/scottish-research-online
British Newspaper Archive britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Additional resources from the discussion that followed:
It was a delight to see so many Projectkin members and contributors in our discussion today.
Previous contributions from participating Projectkin members:
: Kathy is responsible for our ongoing series, Kathy’s Corner. Join us next week on August 22nd for our next episode. Register here. Here’s the most recent episode from last month:
Finally, don’t miss next week’s Open House as the inaugural Roundtable discussion for the new
. This is the new genealogy community just starting here on Substack. Learn more about the program:
And I hope you can join us next week. (Of course, it’s free.)
Thank you so much for being a part of the
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