Have you visited... the Scottish Genealogy Society?

In April my next book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, will be published. To pave the way, every week until publication I will flag up a key site that you may not be aware of if you are new to genealogy, or which you may have overlooked if researching for a while, which might just help with your Scottish research!

This week, the Scottish Genealogy Society.

The Edinburgh based Scottish Genealogy Society at www.scotsgenealogy.com has an online 'Family History Index' outlining some of the private papers which have been deposited with the body, as well as a downloadable index for its journal The Scottish Genealogist, from 1953-2005. The 'Downloads' section also hosts The Black Book, detailing all of the society's holdings relating to Scottish deaths and burials, arranged by county and in downloadable PDF format. The majority are for Scottish counties, but there are listings for the English border counties of Cumbria and Northumberland. The society has a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ScottishGenealogySociety.

Have fun!

* Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet is available for pre-order now at https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Scottish-Family-History-on-the-Internet-Paperback/p/17717.

Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.