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. AVAILABLE SCOTTISH GENEALOGY RESOURCES
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GazetteerTo find where a particular town, village, or district is situated in Scotland there are various on-line resources that can be searched:Undiscovered Scotland : An attractive website guide to many locations in Scotland, alphabetically listed Ancestral Scotland: Try the placename search which will indicate within which Parish and County Gazetteer for Scotland : Search from amongst 12,000 entries in this large on-line encyclopaedia SCAN Gazetteer of Scottish Places : Scottish Archive Network placename search especially useful for places which have historically changed their name. Country Houses of Scotland : Listing of rural houses by county from medieval times to 1850, and the families that lived in them
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Place Names around the World : Maps Some places will be so small, for example the many thousand of individual farms and crofts around Scotland, that they will not appear on any of these gazetteers. The main chance of locating these is by manual searching in Ordnance Survey maps, modern or historical, back to the 1850's First Edition OS. The National Library of Scotland has a range of historical maps from all over Scotland from 1560-1928 which can be viewed on-line. National Library of Scotland also offer large -scale detailed Scottish Town Plans 1847-1895. |
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