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Tracing your Scottish Ancestors - Scottish Records Office - ISBN 0-11-495865-3
. A guide to Ancestry Research in the SRO
Scottish Roots - Alwyn James - ISBN 1-84282-007-9
. A step-by-step guide to tracing your Scottish
. ancestors
Morvern Transformed - Philip Gaskell - ISBN 1-899863-09-5
. A study of social and economic change during the 19th
. Century. A fascinating description of the way of life
. of a community and the pressures both from within and
. without which altered it for ever.
Morvern; A Highland Parish - Norman MacLeod - Edited by Iain Thornber - ISBN 1-84158-237-9
. The author, a MacLeod of Fiunary, was sent to board
. with the Parish Schoolmaster in 1824, age 12, to learn
. Gaelic and become familiar with the Highland way of
. life. This description of a Highland parish was first
. published in 1867.
The Mobile Scot - A Study of Emigration and Migration - 1861 to 1911 - Jeanette M Brock - ISBN 0-85976-453-2
. This is an academic tome but can be useful in
. understanding the background to the movement of the
. Scots.
Ancestral Trails - Mark Herber - ISBN 0-7509-4198-7
. Described as being the complete guide to British
. Genealogy and Family History it guides both beginners
. and more experienced researchers through all of the
. voluminous British archives.
Tracing your Family History - Anthony Adolph - ISBN 0-00-715892-0
. An authorative, in depth and accessible guide to
. tracing your ancestors...... this book takes you
. step-by-step through the challenging, intriguing and
. rewarding process of discovering your family's past.
After The Hector - Lucille H Campey - ISBN 1-896219-95-0
. The author is a Canadian now living in the UK.
. She deals with emmigration from western Scotland to . Nova Scotia and Cape Breton in Canada between 1773
. (Hectors arrival) and 1852.
Lochaber - A Historical Guide - Dr Paula Martin - ISBN1 84158 241 7
. Drs Paula and Colin Martin are both historians and archaelogists. They and their two sons have a passion
for historic shipwrecks. This book,as it says,is an historical guide of current day Lochaber which straddles the north of
Argyll & the south of Inveness-shire. It is very well illustrated and is an easy, and intersting,read giving good background
for Family History reasearch in this area.
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