Scottish Family HistoryThe author examines the Scottish family in relation to the great movements of local history, while providing instruction on the sources and techniques needed for successful family history research. Trades, professions, religions, clans and surnames, migration and emigration, labor and industry, kin and community--all are dealt with in the intimate context of family history. So, too, are the conventional sources of genealogical data such as church records, memoirs, and government records. |
Contents
| 7 | |
Working lives | 37 |
Living dying moving house the study of demography | 54 |
Kin clan and community | 82 |
Exploring local society | 113 |
Culture and beliefs | 137 |
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