FindmyPast adds new Scottish records

Added to FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) this week, sourced mainly from Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com):

Scotland, Mental Health Institutions Registers & Admissions

A new set of 220,7317 Scottish mental health institutional records, spanning 1858 to 1921.

Scotland, Court & Criminal Database

A million Scottish court database transcriptions added to this existing collection, from the Court of Session, Crown Counsel Procedure Books, and the Scottish Prison Records Index.

Scotland, Poor Law & Poor Lists

Registers have been added from Wigtownshire and the Scottish Borders, 7906 new records.

For further details visit https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/scottish-poor-law-mental-health-institution

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, 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. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

Who Do You Think You Are? magazine Jan 2024

I've just received the latest Who Do You Think You Are? magazine edition, issue 213, January 2024, which includes an "Around Britain" series article by yours truly on Northern Ireland research and PRONI, the country's national archive (don't worry, I've addressed the geographical elephant in the room in the opening paragraph!).

Another interesting article, for Scots research, is that by Rosemary Collins, who talks to Loraine Duncan and Rhona Barr about their Friends of Hartwood Paupers Cemetery project at https://www.fohpc.com, focussed on the stories of those who were buried in the graveyard at Hartwood Hospital (Lanark District Asylum) near Shotts in Lanarkshire.

Also in the magazine are articles on 50 website to watch next year, finding trade union membership records, and Metropolitan Police records.  

For more on the latest edition, visit https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/magazine (currently still advertising the Christmas edition at the time of writing, but will be updated soon!)

Chris  

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, 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. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.