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Tracing your Scottish ancestors : a guide to ancestry research in the Scottish Record Office / Cecil Sinclair.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Reading Room REF CS463.S56 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinclair, Cecil.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scotland--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Scotland.
- Local Subjects:
- Scotland--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Genre:
- manuals (instructional materials)
- handbooks.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Family histories.
- Physical Description:
- x, 153 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : HMSO, 1990 (1991 printing)
- Contents:
- First steps in family research
- General Register Office for Scotland (the Registrar-General's Department)
- At the Scottish Record Office
- Births, baptisms, marriages & deaths
- Inheritance : wills & executries
- Inheritance : heirs in heritage
- Owners of lands & houses
- Tenants & crofters
- Other legal transactions
- Litigants
- Criminals
- Taxpayers
- Government officials
- Soldiers & sailors
- Clergymen & church members
- Schoolmasters & scholars
- Doctors & nurses
- Lawyers
- Architects & surveyors
- Railwaymen
- Coal miners
- Trade & business
- Electors & elected
- The sick & insane.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-146) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sinclair, Cecil. Tracing your Scottish ancestors.
- ISBN:
- 0114941181
- 9780114941185
- OCLC:
- 22778345
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