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 History Resource Centre - history of UKcoalmining - including a searchable database of over 164,000 recorded accidents and deaths.

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.


Others:

Annie Easton Hood - life story written by Annie Easton Hood

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

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Moore Books - specialist in new and second hand mining books

Here's some links suggested by Maura Stephenson's class from Colorado who used this site to help with their scottish history and genealogy projects, and which they hope others might also find useful.

History of Scotland - Authenticireland.com - History of Scotland
Scottish Ancestry - Geo.ed.ac.uk - Scotland Genealogy
Culture of Scotland - Scotland.org - culture