According to a site I can access showing the status of publications from my main publisher Pen and Sword, it looks like yesterday they ran off another print run of my recent book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, so if you have been unable to obtain a copy, hopefully that should be you now sorted!
Here's a bit of blurb about what to expect from the title:
Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet
Scotland is a land with a proud and centuries long history that far
pre-dates its membership of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Today
in the 21st century it is also a land that has done much to make its
historical records accessible, to help those with Caledonian ancestry
trace their roots back to earlier times and a world long past.
In Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Chris Paton
expertly guides the family historian through the many Scottish records
offerings available, but also cautions the reader that not every record
is online, providing detailed advice on how to use web based finding
aids to locate further material across the country and beyond. He also
examines social networking and the many DNA platforms that are currently
further revolutionising online Scottish research.
From the Scottish Government websites offering access to our most
important national records, to the holdings of local archives,
libraries, family history societies, and online vendors, Chris Paton
takes the reader across Scotland, from the Highlands and Islands,
through the Central Belt and the Lowlands, and across the diaspora, to
explore the various flavours of Scottishness that have bound us together
as a nation for so long.
Farmers and Labourers
The Western Isles
The book can be purchased in the UK
from publisher Pen and Sword at https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Scottish-Family-History-on-the-Internet-Paperback/p/17717, and from other booksellers. (I've just been notified by a friend in the US that Amazon is flagging up a stock issue for the book, hopefully that will be sorted soon!)
I have recorded a short introduction video providing an oversight on what to expect, which can be viewed at https://youtu.be/6oMmlObbLq8, and which is also reproduced below for convenience:
And some reviews...!
An invaluable tome for the serious researcher and amateur alike. If I had to choose one book to recommend to family historians with Scottish links, this would be the one. Absolutely invaluable. Glasgow and West of Scotland FHS, September 2020
Having read Chris Paton's other book about tracing Scottish ancestors through church and state records, I was keen to add this book to my collection as I live a long way from Scotland and internet research is definitely the way to go for me. Having been encouraged to take up the study of my northern ancestors again by the previous book, this one has given me even more sources to follow. I found it useful to examine the shape of the Scottish population in terms of common occupations and scattered pockets of Scottish migrants in other parts of the world. The section detailing resources for each different Scottish county is particularly helpful, enabling me to search some indexes I was hitherto not aware of. As with the other book, I found the most help in immersing myself in the Scottish records and trying new avenues, resulting in pleasing strides forward on my family tree. Thank you Chris Paton. Amazon Customer, Jayne
Chris Paton is a genealogist and writer whose practical knowledge of researching Scottish records never ceases to amaze me – so I had high expectations of his latest book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet: A Guide For Family Historians. I was not disappointed – it's a superb book from a researcher who has numerous books and countless magazine articles to his name. (He's also a brilliant speaker, as anyone who attended my Genealogy in the Sunshine conferences will know.)... Highly recommended, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet is available as a conventional paperback or as a Kindle e-book. Lost Cousins
The book is well laid out and explained, it’s just so simple to read and really does help especially as ancestry research can often be complicated at the best of times. Chris Paton writes these books so well they really do help you do what it says on the cover, because I use them for my own family research. The pictures in this book vary between pictures of old relatives, sites to visit for specific research and website images to help you along. I would definitely recommend these books to others and I think they are so good I would give this copy a 5 star rating. UK Historian
I hope it helps!
Chris
My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.
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