Links to Useful Sites

There are plenty of other sites giving extensive lists of family history links, so I have only list a few odd ones, mainly archive resources that don't appear so often.

Coalmining:
Coalmining Resource Centre - great site.

List of Coalmining Links - Site begins with e-bay list but if you scroll down a bit, it includes very extensive collection of coalmining links worldwide.

Archives / Sources of Information:

National Archives of Scotland - NAS Searchable database

National Library of Scotland - Digital Map Collection

Old and New Statistical Accounts of Scotland

SCRAN - (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network) a searchable collection of 300,000 digitised images and text from from museums, archives and galleries in Scotland.

National Archives - (combining the Public Record Office and Historic Manuscripts Commision)

Poorhouses and Workhouses of Scotland

Gazetteer for Scotland - Modern gazetteer but including entries from 'Groome's Gazetteer' of 1885.

Dictionary of the Scots Language - electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language.


Other related Hood sites:

Annie Easton Hood - life story written by Annie Easton Hood

Others:

Tranent - Coal, Co-op and Community - history of Tranent

Compare purchasing power of money 1264-2002

Moore Books - specialist in new and second hand mining books