Have you used... the Scottish Mining Website?

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... a resource to help with Scottish miners.

The Scottish Mining Website at www.scottishmining.co.uk is a true gem if your ancestor was a miner. The platform's resources are drawn from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles, with information offered on a variety of topics, including life in mining towns and villages, working conditions, accidents and strikes, housing, health and leisure, war memorials, and considerably more. The site focusses on the coal, iron and shale mining industries in Scotland, and includes a superb mining accident section with annual listings of fatalities from 1852-1944, as well as pre-1852 lists and post-Second World War records.

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.