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Loading... In Search of Scottish Ancestry (edition 1986)by Gerald Hamilton-Edwards
Work InformationIn search of Scottish ancestry by Gerald Hamilton-Edwards
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A good basic guide to Scottish genealogical research, giving information about the kinds of records that are available. A bit dated, as much is now available on line, but nevertheless useful for interpretic sources, and knowing what to look for. ( ) no reviews | add a review
This has been the standard guide for Scottish family historians since its first publication, in 1972, and has enjoyed enormous success throughout the English-speaking (and Scots-populated) world. After a corrected reprint in 1979, it now appears in an enlarged format in a new edition that takes account of the latest information and more than a decade of readers' comments. It takes the reader from the time when he is first led by curiosity to make enquiries of aged aunts and uncles to the time when he is far back in the centuries, immersed in an absorbing and often lifetime hobby. For people of Scots descent, whether still at home in Scotland or abroad, in the rest of the British Isles or dominions or in the U.S.A., this is the most useful, the most readable and the most comprehensive guide to the methods and the peculiar problems (and fortunate advantages) of the seeker of Scottish ancestry or family history. The book is also invaluable to historians, biographers, sociologists and all others who make use of Scottish archives. Book jacket. No library descriptions found. |
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