Have you used... Scots language resources?

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 or resource 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... resources to help with the Scots language.

From a family history perspective, whilst the language of spoken Scots today is heavily impacted on by the mainly English language based media, as you go further back in time through historic records the language becomes a considerably more difficult challenge to overcome, with many words and grammatical constructs no longer in use. By far the most useful resource for understanding older Scots words is the free to access Dictionary of the Scots Language (Dictionar o the Scots Leid), available at https://dsl.ac.uk. The SCAN website's Glossary can help with both Scots and Latin derived legal terms at www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/glossary.htm, with further assistance available from the Scottish Law Online website at www.scottishlaw.org.uk/lawscotland/abscotslawland.html.

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.