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The Statistical Accounts of Scotland

The two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s, are probably the best contemporary reports of life in Scotland during the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Europe

They were written for each of over 930 parishes in Scotland, usually by the Minister of the local Parish Church. From each Parish account  you can learn about the area, life and times  in which your ancestors lived. They are available online at the EDINA National Data Centre at the University of Edinburgh at a subscription cost of UK40 pounds (US$80), or there is a free browsing service . Or contact Scotlands Family if you wish a copy of a particular Parish entry.

Based largely on information supplied by each Parish church minister, the First Statistical Account from the 1790's and the New (Second) Statistical Account from the 1830's provide a rich record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people. The online service features include: browse the scanned pages view the transcribed text with a cut and paste facility page and volume search view the accounts in published order fault-tolerant text searching and display of search results within context bookmark a page citation downloading a parish as a PDF     The Statistical Accounts of Scotland

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