Scottish Roots: A Step-by-step Guide for Ancestor-hunters - Softcover

James, Alwyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842820079 ISBN 13: 9781842820070

Publisher: Luath Press Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

"Scottish Roots" provides a step-by-step guide to tracing Scottish ancestry. Using an example of two Scots trying to discover their roots, Alwyn James illustrates how to commence the research process and gradually compile a worthwhile family tree. The author navigates the reader through the first steps of sourcing family details, making contact with distant relatives, and preparing to collate any new information. Drawing on Scotland's reputation for record keeping, the author explains in detailed but simple terms, how to go about searching for family records in New Register House, the Scottish Record Office, local libraries, and folk museums. Details of costs associated with record searching are provided, along with advice on maintaining realistic expectations during the research.

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Review

'Indespensable' - CALEDONIA MAGAZINE 'If you have ever considered researching your Scottish ancestry... then this has to be the book to get you started!' - DALRIADA: THE JOURNAL OF CELTIC CULTURE, HERITAGE AND TRADITIONS 'Mr James writes entertainingly and clearly, guiding the enquirer step by step through the Scottish archives.' - FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE

About the Author

ALWYN JAMES spent his childhood and schooldays in the Welsh valley town of Tredegar. After two dramatic changes of scenery, firstly three years at Cambridge University in the flat landscape of East Anglia and then ten years as editor of an industrial magazine in London, he arrived in 1970, almost by accident, in Scotland. In the years since then, his career has been all about communication, as editor, writer, press officer and internal publications chief, the last two with The Royal Bank of Sotland. An unapologetic dilettante, he has, in addition to his books, written articles in the Scottish press on subjects as diverse as Enrico Caruso and Scottish banknotes, the explorer Alexander Mackenzie and Welsh rugby. Within the Royal Bank he is better known in a Jekyll and Hyde combination - jovial TV presenter and sadistic setter of quizzes. His flurry of writing since semi-retirement from the bank has produced a film script of Caruso's last days, a TV adaptation of a Victorian tear-jerker, a romantic crime novel - and boxes of rejection slips. He and his wife Jean, the inspiration behind Scottish Roots, have now established something of a dynasty in Edinburgh, with daughters-in-law and grandchildren swelling the numbers carrying on the Tredegar James name to nine, although two sons have fled the nest to Bavaria and Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842820079
• ISBN 13: 9781842820070
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 128