The National Library of Scotland has a growing collection of digital resources of great interest to family historians. We've blogged before about their amazing map collection, which we use all the time for our own and client research. The NLS also has a superb collection of historic directories available, which we will write about in a future post.
On Friday, the NLS announced the latest additions to their digital library, this time of nearly 400 printed items relating to the histories of Scottish families - so right up our street! The individual books can be read online or downloaded to read offline. You can even search the text of the books for particular words. I think the text has been produced by OCR (optical character recognition), but the NLS is usually very good at digitising text. That said, if you can't find what you're looking for by searching, you can browse through each book page by page. To help you find any books you may be interested in, we've grouped all the titles currently available by family. Bear in mind though that many of the books cover multiple families, so even if your family name's not listed here, it's worth checking the site anyway.
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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 28 March - 3 April 2016
Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list. Monday, March 28 2016, 7.30 pm Glasgow Humane Society George Parsonage Venue: Caldwell Halls, 16 Campsie Road, Torrance, G64 4BN Torrance Heritage and History Group Monday, March 28 2016, 7.30 pm Perthshire monasteries and their local communities Prof Richard Oram Venue: Bankfoot Church Centre West Stormont Historical Society Non-members: adults £3, concessions £2. (Open discussion meetings at Luncarty are free) Monday, March 28 2016, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm Finlaggan, Islay – excavation at the center of the Lordship of the Isles Dr David Caldwell Venue: Alloa Town Hall (Tommy Downs Room) Clackmannanshire Field Studies Society Speaker Society of Antiquaries Scotland, Fife Cultural Trust Thursday, March 31 2016, 7.30 pm Clyde Upper Reaches : Imports & Exports Iain Quinn Venue: Glen Halls, Neilston Barrhead & Neilston Historical Association Thursday, March 31 2016, 7.30 pm Blackfriars Monastery Dig Bob Will, Guard Archaeology Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery Stirling Local History Society Thursday, March 31 2016, 7.30 pm Glasgow's Bridges Tom Marchmont Venue: FCCS Office, Soutbank Marina, Kirkintilloch Thursday, March 31 2016, 8 pm Ayrshire's Railway Heritage Alasdair Wham Venue: Chapel Hall, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, 2 Crummock Street, Beith, Ayrshire Beith Historical Society |
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