scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: The Bookshelf: Summer Reading List
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-bookshelf-summer-reading-list.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Saturday, June 20, 2015. The Bookshelf: Summer Reading List. Long lazy, summer days means plenty of time for reading. And it is the perfect time to read up on Scotland and the Diaspora. Here a list of book reviews I've written and two book lists specific to Scottish Emigration. There are popular books, academic books, and two that relate to genealogy. The Bookshelf: Highland Homecomings by Paul Basu. Amanda E. Epperson.
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: Happy 4th of July from the SEB
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2015/07/happy-4th-of-july-from-seb.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Saturday, July 4, 2015. Happy 4th of July from the SEB. After the weekend's parades and barbecue, spend some quiet time looking for Scottish (and English) emigrants who came to Colonial America. Three subscription sites are offering free access to select databases for a limited time. At Ancestry you can access their Colonial Vital Records. At Fold3 you can access their Revolutionary War Collection. Saturday, July 04, 2015.
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: The Bookshelf: Highland Homecomings by Paul Basu
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-bookshelf-highland-homecomings-by.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The Bookshelf: Highland Homecomings by Paul Basu. Published version of his dissertation. He shares the fact that many roots tourists collect stones and other souvenirs from ancestral sites to take home. He suggests that these items are similar to relics, a little piece of something sacred we can have in our everyday lives. Do you do this? Posted by Amanda E. Epperson. Wednesday, May 21, 2014.
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (AÀA) ~ Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2011/04/ainmean-aite-na-h-alba-aaa-gaelic-place.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Sunday, April 24, 2011. Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (AÀA) Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland. I read about the Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland. In the Winter 2010 issue of Scottish Life. According to the announcement the site has a database of over 1000 Gaelic place names with the English equivalent, the meaning, and the pronunciation in Gaelic. Is a leaflet about the AÀA. Posted by Amanda E. Epperson. Sunday, April 24, 2011. I com...
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: The Bookshelf: Network North by Steve Murdoch
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2010/10/bookshelf-network-north-by-steve.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Monday, October 25, 2010. The Bookshelf: Network North by Steve Murdoch. Murdoch, Steve. 2006. Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe 1603-1746. Brill: London and Leiden. Volume 18 in The Northern World, North Europe and the Baltic c400-1700 AD: Peoples, Economies and Cultures. A good research tip in this book was a mention of the Great Seal of Scotland. Or a similar book. I...
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: Donald Whyte and A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2011/01/donald-whyte-and-dictionary-of-scottish.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Monday, January 3, 2011. Donald Whyte and A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants. Many thanks to Brenda who pointed out that all four volumes Donald Whyte's. A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation. Are available on CD-ROM. Read more about it here. While searching for the CD Brenda mentioned, I found a portion of. A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the U.S.A. Posted by Amanda E. Epperson. The Book...
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: Find Scottish Emigrants to the Americas Using Published Lists at Ancestry.com
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2015/06/find-scottish-emigrants-to-americas.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Saturday, June 27, 2015. Find Scottish Emigrants to the Americas Using Published Lists at Ancestry.com. Most people are aware that Ancestry.com. Ancestry is a subscription site so the links below will only work if you already subscribe to it; they might also work if you are in library that provides access the Library Edition of Ancestry. If you can't access these databases, then you can probably find most of these tit...
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: Gaelic Everywhere You Look
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2015/03/gaelic-everywhere-you-look.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Saturday, March 14, 2015. Gaelic Everywhere You Look. A group album has been sitting quietly on Flicker, steadily documenting the use of Gaelic in Scotland. Gaelic Signs in Scotland. Posted by Amanda E. Epperson. Saturday, March 14, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Research Your Scots-Irish Family History at Family Tree University. Amanda E. Epperson. View my complete profile. Visit My Other Blog. The Bookshelf: ...
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: Scottish Emigration Reading List, part two
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/2010/12/scottish-emigration-reading-list-part.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Friday, December 3, 2010. Scottish Emigration Reading List, part two. As promised, here is the part two of the suggested reading list. If I have not yet provided you with enough reading material, I have added a resource list on Scottish emigration. Prepared by the Library of Congress to the links list. The books on it are a bit dated, but might be useful. Dillon, SC: 1739 Publications, 1998. MacInnes, Allan I. "Scotti...
scottishemigration.blogspot.com
The Scottish Emigration Blog: FYI
http://scottishemigration.blogspot.com/p/fyi.html
The Scottish Emigration Blog. Notes on a wandering people, their homeland and more. Information, tidbits and disclaimers. I do have advertising on this site from Google and Amazon, you've probably noticed. They are just there and I don't do anything to them. Someday, I might earn a few pennies from these ads; then again, maybe not. I select these titles myself based upon my own interests. It is quite common in the academic world to be sent a copy of a book in turn for a review and I have done this fo...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT