Discover Your Scottish Ancestry

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book_author_name: 
Graham S. Holton
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Paperback
publisher: 
Edinburgh University Press
published_date: 
31/10/2009
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9780748639199
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Books > History > Local interest, family history & nostalgia > Family history & tracing ancestors
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Graham S. Holton|Paperback|Edinburgh University Press|31/10/2009
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9780748639199
Book Description: 
This illuminating guide to discovering your Scottish family history has been fully revised and updated to take account of changes to resources and methods for researching your Scottish ancestry over the last few years. Accessible in style and comprehensive in coverage, this new edition stresses the importance of traditional methods of family history research while also embracing the exciting possibilities afforded by new technologies, sources and developments in genetic science. Indispensable to both the fledgling researcher and the more experienced family history specialist in Scotland or elsewhere, this book provides a guide to the very latest resources available to assist with research. Covering Scottish primary and secondary sources in full detail, this book also provides illustrative case studies of family history research, lists of useful websites and archives, and family history organisations and societies. Highlights of this new edition: *An updated chapter dedicated to aspects of recording, scanning and storing information *New insight into accessing English, Irish, emigrant and immigrant records *An update on developments in DNA genetics of relevance to the genealogist *A substantial and broad-ranging bibliography essential for those who want to take their research even further.

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