Saturday 15 April 2023

Scottish Indexes announces new records additions

Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) has announced some new records additions to their site. In summary:

  • A new volume from the register of deeds, from 1652-1653.
  • An update to their prison records collection of a further 104,369 records. This includes material from the following prisons: Edinburgh Lock-up House 1848-1850 (2,919), Fort William 1849-1880 (949), Ayr 1893-1897 (8,577), Paisley 1866-1875 (9,198), Aberdeen 1896-1908 (20,198), Dundee 1911-1914,1922 (8,906), and Glasgow (Duke Street) 1850-1864 (53,623)
  • A new collection, Pardoned or Ticket of Leave on New Charges 1855-1895 - this will include information on relevant trial papers.

Graham and Emma will be announcing more detail about these collections over the next week - check out their main website, and their social media channels, including Twitter (@ScottishIndexes) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/scottish.indexes).  

* The next Scottish Indexes conference will be on September 9th 2023.

Chris

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