Have you used... Scottish Post Office directories?

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... Scottish Post Office directories.

The National Librray of Scotland, working in partnership with the Internet Archive, has digitised some 1042 Post Office Directories (aka 'PODs') and presented them online on two separate platforms. The NLS has its own dedicated website available at https://digital.nls.uk/directories/ which hosts some seven hundred of the directories from 1773 up to 1911, the latter year having been chosen to respect an unofficial closure period mirroring that of the 1911 census. However, the Internet Archive has placed all of the volumes onto its website in a special 'Scottish Directories' sub-collection within its NLS category, at https://archive.org/details/scottishdirectories. For some cities in Scotland you will find annual directories available up to the 1940s.

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.