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These pages with the green background are from the former Highland Flings website which was maintained by "Chirho" who retired and turned it over to Berwickshire, ScotlandGenWeb.

My deepest thanks to Anne (chirho) and her hundreds of volunteers who spent thousands of hours assembling these comprehensive resources for researchers of Highland Scotland. It is my intent to preserve these records for everyone to enjoy. Thanks Anne. Donald O'Collaugh Kelly

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Physically, Scottish records are in New Register House (BMD, OPR) and the Scottish record Office (OPRs for dissenting and Catholic churches, wills, etc). The two buildings are next door to each other on Princes St, across the road from the station.

In Edinburgh New Register House (east end of Princes Street) has the civil BMDs on fiche computer indexed, the census records on m'film and the Old Parish Registers (OPRs) You can see the originals if the film is unreadable and the staff agree. All for a fee of (I think) 19UKP per day - unless you want official copies which are extra. Drawback is limited accommodation - you need to be queuing outside by 0830 most days (opens at 0900) and may not get a seat on busy days even then. Booking is possible for people from afar but requires planning ahead.

You can do a lot of research in the Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow - near the M8 exit and rail station Charing Cross. No appointment needed but m'fiche/film readers might be fully occupied.

Glasgow has (in Park Circus) a facility for the West of Scotland similar to NRH but restricted. It is a bookable service only.

Two FHSs of value Glasgow & West of Scotland FHS, Unit 15, 32 Mansfield Street, Glasgow, G11 5QP, Scotland and the Scottish Genealogy Society (I tnink at Victoria Street, Edinburgh) The latter allows visitors on a day search basis, the former will do limited research for members from afar.

The Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library in Moultrie, GA has an outstanding Scottish collection. They report being the repository for 99 Scottish Clans, family organizations and groups. They are an outstanding resource, and - as a side note - publish an outstanding "free" genealogy newspaper (The Family Tree) bi-monthly. They can be reached at P.O. Box 2828, Moultrie, GA 31776-2828, or by phone at (912) 985-6540 (985-0936 fax), or email at [hugh.waters@lost.com]. Also, they have an electronic version of the newspaper

"Fasti Ecclesiae Scotticanae" volumes, cover all Church of Scotland ministers who were inducted to charges.

Many Catholic records are in local hands, along with the Free and Episcopalian, though some are at SRO and some were filmed. Ged LDS film: The Old and New Statistical Accounts, which can tell you what denominations were active in a parish. "Tracing Scottish Local History" says that RC records are held at the SRO. It says to check "Papists" in early records as Catholics might appear under this name. Confirms most are kept locally, but says check the archives. Earliest records are from 1745. Most didn't begin till 1829 due to laws against Catholics.

Scottish Catholic Archives
Columba House
26 Drummond Place
Edinburgh, EH3 6PL
Visiting these archives is by appointment, and you might need character references.

Catholic Directory for Scotland, Glasgow, John S. Burns and Sons, 1985

Gandy, Michael, "Catholic Missions and Registers, 1700-1880", London, M. Gandy, 1993. Vol 6. Scotland.

Gandy, Michael "Catholic Parishes in England, Wales, and Scotland: An Atlas" Gandy, 1993.

The 1801 census is statistical only. The first complete census of Scotland was taken in 1841.
Prior to that time you may use the OPR records (index to these found at your local FHC), registers of sasines for 1781-1868 (also at the FHC), cess rolls, etc., and the 1780 male servants tax of 1780, which is useful for finding those of the upper or middle classes. The original of this 1780 list is in the P.R.O., London. The Society of Genealogists, London, has a list arranged by county, of those who paid this tax. Servants names are not listed, however. There are extant Invernesshire poll tax records for 1694-1699 (FHC).

There is no Scotland-wide census index. As for local census indexes, there are a wide variety, compiled by many different people in specific places. There is a published list available: Scottish Census Indexes, 1841-1871: a location list, published by the Scottish Association of Family History Societies, and sold for only a pound or so plus postage. It keeps needing to be updated, so I cannot guarantee what is covered.

Gordon Johnson, Author of "Census Records for Scottish Families at Home and Abroad", 3rd edn. 1997, published by Aberdeen & N.E.Scotland FHS, who also sell the census indexes list. Their website is where you will get all the details for ordering)

Can anyone help me to find details of an inquest of a death that occurred aboard a ship in Glasgow in 1907? Or how I can find where the person was buried?
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Several points here:
1. Inquest does not exist as a legal term in Scots law, but there is an equivalent investigation into sudden deaths by the procurator-fiscal.
2. The death, if in Glasgow, should be recorded in the normal way, and the result of any precognition should be recorded there, though possibly in the Register of Corrected Entries (which will be referred to in the original detah certificate).
3. Most accidental or interesting deaths will have been recorded in the Glasgow Herald newspaper, which is probably indexed for that date. Try the Mitchell Library in Glasgow for that. They have a website.
Gordon Johnson, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Death Records Female deaths in the statutory (1855 on) registers at the General Register Office are indexed by both maiden surname and married surname.

The actual register entry will also show (for female and male as appropriate):

Occupation (or husband's occupation)
Date, time and place of death (and home address if different)
Age
Name and occupation of father
Name and maiden surname of mother
Cause of death
Name and relationship of person informing the Registrar

More generally on the use of the maiden name - on marriage, a woman in Scotland did not lose her maiden name: she gained her husband's name. Thus Margaret Graham (nee Campbell) would be known legally as "Margaret Campbell or Graham", and she could use either surname (or both). If she has a headstone, it would almost certainly say something like "Here lies Margaret Campbell, wife of John Graham". This usage is quite distinct from the use of more than one forename. For example, Margaret could have called herself Margaret C Graham only if the C stood for, perhaps, Catriona; the C would not have stood for Campbell.

Been through the OPR, and still hunting further back? Possible sources are: Testament indexes, sasines indexes, Spalding Club series, Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Register of the Privy Seal, Registers of Deeds (indexed from 1660), Services of heirs.

A large number of private acts from the early 1700's up until the beginning of the 1800's were passed through parliament in London. They ranged from naturalizations, to marriage settlements and divorces, to probate settlements and guardianships.

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Ships Passenger Lists for New York and New Jersey 1600 - 1825 Compiled by Carl Boyer, 3rd. Published by the Complier, Newhall CA in 1978.
There is a section titled "Early Highland Immigration" which was compiled from "Early Highland Immigration to New York" The Historical Magazine And Notes And Quesries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America 1 series dated 1861.
It talks about the immigration being the result of an invitation issued by the NY government which was inviting settlers from Europe. In the years from 1738 to 1742 many Scottish highlanders were brought over by Capt. Lauchlin Campbell and some others.
There are numerous names in this and the information indicates the person (male and females both) and in some cases includes their children's names or where the family is from and in some cases indicates maiden names of the females. May indicate where they were going or when they died.

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