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13th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences XXIII.i.16
17th Century Military Uniform Contracts XXXIX.i.20
1819 Journal of Thomas Purves L.iii.106
1861 Census Perth XLVIII.ii.60
21st Anniversary Conference - Report XXI.iv.97
22nd International Congress of Genealogical & Heraldic Sciences XLIII.iv.139
50th Anniversary of the SGS L.i.3
71st Regiment XXVII.iii.119
A ‘Thumb Nail’ outline of notes on Research of the Old Royal House of Moray - MacKay genealogy XXVI.i.18
A Century of Dickies (1750-1850) XVII.ii.49
A Churchyard Dispute (A Main family story) L.iv.149
A Curious Will - Will of William Dunlop (b. 1792) LIV.iii.107
A Demographic Study of Illegitimacy in Cere Parish, Fife, 1841-1861 XXX.iv.113
A Distinguished son of Anstruther, Fife, Scotland - John Goodsir (b. 1746) XXIX.iv.110
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 1) LI.ii.68
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 2) LI.iii.121
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 3) LI.iv.164
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 4) LII.i.20
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 5) LII.ii.77
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 6) LII.iii.133
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 7) LII.iv.152
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 8) LIII.i.14
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 9) LIII.ii.61
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 10) LIII.iii.117
A Family Historian’s Alphabet (no. 11) LIV.i.3
A Ferry Tragedy at Dundee XL.iv.155
A Footnote to the Grace Darling Story XXXV.iii.125
A Fortune Unfolded (The Cochrane family) (1 of 3) XXIV.i.23
A Fortune Unfolded (The Cochrane family) (2 of 3) XXIV.iii.57
A Fortune Unfolded (The Cochrane family) (3 of 3) XXIV.iv.85
A Fourth Cousin Discovered (Piggot/Mitchell connection) XLVI.iii.103
A Fraser in Anjou - a translation of the article in XXX.ii. XXXI.ii.54
A French Connection (The Harkness family) LII.i.15
A Fund for the Relief of the Poor XLIX.ii.44
A Hogg Dynasty of Ministers (Durris, Aberdeenshire) XLIII.ii.58
A Hundred Year Old Tragedy (A MacVean/McVean family story) XLVIII.iv.126
A Hundred Years Ago in Edinburgh Part 1 (Prominent members of Edinburgh Society in 1900) XLIX.iv.116
A Hundred Years Ago in Edinburgh Part 2 (Prominent members of Edinburgh Society in 1900) L.i.29
A Hundred Years Ago in Edinburgh Part 3 (Prominent members of Edinburgh Society in 1900) L.ii.85
A Jacobite or Not? (Captain Alexander Read of Logie) XLII.iv.140
A Lang Pedigree (Revie/Gillespie families) XLIII.i.11
A Letter to Ann (Ann Somner in 1807) XLIV.iii.112
A Lillie Link Between Setons and McInroys XXVII.iii.85
A Link with the Canadian Pacific (Stuart family history) XXXVIII.i.8
A List of Libraries, Societies and Universities which have purchased or received one or more of the SGS’s list of MI XXVIII.i.16
A Look at Two Old Parish Registers - Channelkirk, Berwickshire XIX.i.5
A Lost Orcadian Name (Paplay) XXVIII.iv.163
A No Non-sence Man - Henry Lauder, Lord St. Germains (d. 1561) XLIII.ii.56
A Note on the Campbells of Lix Part 1 X.ii.2
A Note on the Campbells of Lix Part 2 X.iii.1
A PM from Scotland, you say! LIV.ii.60
A Private Soldier in a Scottish Regiment in the Napoleonic Wars (Peter Campbell of the Breadalbane Fencibles) XXVI.iii.61
A Puzzling Link Between Forresters and Munros XXI.iii.87
A Question of Allegiances (A Robertson family story) L.iv.151
A Remarkable Family Record - John Pitt (d. 1847/8) of Gordon XVI.iii.68
A Sad Tale - Jean Lindsay (nee Watt) LIV.iii.140
A Scots Lady in Algult - Isobel Spens, wife of James Ramsay (d. 1638) XXXI.ii.44
A Scotsman in Peru - Henry Swayne (1800-1877) XLVI.iii.97
A Scottish Soldier in the Great War - Patrick Wright Anderson (b. 1892) in Arbroath XLI.ii.60
A Second postscript to the Grace Darling Story XXXVI.i.32
A Span of Spouses (Cumming of Dulshangie marriages) XXVII.ii.50
A Tale of the Sea (A Mouat family story) XLVII.iv.149
A Thousand Years - the Littles and their Forebears (The Little family) XXXV.ii.45
A Trip across the “Herrin’ Pond” (James Smith - from Glasgow to Canada in 1904) XLII.ii.62
A Trip to London (The Queen's Diamond Jubilee of 1897) XLIV.iii.93
A War Crime 1746 - John McNaughton (x. 1746) XXII.iii.78
Aberdour Kirk Sessions XXXVII.iii.96
Aberdour, Fife - Marriage Contracts XLIV.iii.124
Aberdour, Fife, Register of Burials of Mariners 1817-54 XLIV.iv.152
Abernethy of Saltoun XVII.iv.127
Adam Drummond of Megginch, Surgeon Apothecary (1679-1758) XIX.i.15
Address by Sir Thomas Innes of Learney - Heirship moveables VII.i.3
Address by The Lord Lyon - McLeod Chiefship XI.iv.3
Affleck, Auchenleck and the Back of an Envelope XLVI.i.4
Agatha - The Ancestry Dispute XLIX.iii.71
Airlie OPR XXXVIII.iv.154
Airs of Angus 1375-1800 XXII.iii.63
Airs of Lothian 1535-1800 XXVIII.ii.57
Alexander Hutchison 1809-1898 XLI.iv.173
Alexander Read (b. about 1754) - Adventures in India XXVI.i.13
Alive and Well (A correction) XXIII.ii.34
Alterations in Old Graveyards - Falkirk X.ii.7
American Links with the Ettrick Shepherd, addenda and corriegenda XIII.iii.35
American Links with the Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg XII.iv.69
An Alexander Family in Scotland & America XLV.ii.46
An Approach to Records Part 1 IV.iii.69
An Approach to Records Part 2 IV.iv.96
An Early Nineteenth Century Minute Book (Lesmahagow Farmers' Club) XXXV.iii.105
An Historical Survey of the Family of Cowden XXXIII.iv.237
An Indomitable Mariner - Captain Roderick Mackenzie in Sandwick, Isle of Lewis, in two World Wars LI.i.13
An Industrial Site Long Forgotten (The Abden Shipyard, Kinghorn) XLIX.ii.50
An Interesting Tombstone - James Lean of Linton XXVII.iv.166
An Offprint from Industrial Archaeology Review v.6, no.3, 1982 (The Wilsons - A line of engineers) XXXIII.i.145
An Old Scottish Family Library - Blair Castle X.iii.6
Ancestors of Scotland want your attention XXV.iii.89
Ancestors Overseas XVII.ii.39
Ancestry of James Reid Campbell, rightful heir to the Earldom of Breadalbane? XXXVI.iv.109
Ancestry of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855) XXXII.i.1
Ancestry. How far honour is to be paid to it - from the Spectator Wednesday October 27th 1714 XXVIII.i.34
Andrew Barclay, The Complex Life of a Victorian Engineer (1814-1900) LII.iii.99
Andrew Russell’s Family Letters (Merchant in Rotterdam 1670-1695) XLVII.ii.41
Anglo-Scottish Family History Society LI.iii.109
Annandale Peerage Case Part 1 of 3 XXIV.iv.113
Annandale Peerage Case Part 2 of 3 XXV.ii.55
Annandale Peerage Case Part 3 of 3 XXVI.ii.56
Apparent Blue-Green Sheen of a Crow Flying Against the Sun - Captain 'Donull Gorm' MacDonell of Benbecula (c1728-1760) LII.iv.171
Ardchoirk Colquhouns: a Colquhoun enclave near Duart Castle in Mull XLVII.iii.93
Are You A Luke Warm Genealogist? XLIV.ii.62
Are You Re-inventing the Wheel? XLII.iv.148
Are Your Ancestors Here? (A safe conduct of 1423/4) LII.i.43
Armorial Bearings XXV.iv.127
Armorial Register of Sir David Lindsay, The IV.i.12
Arms of Maxwell of Calderwood XIII.ii.7
Arms of Maxwell of Calderwood - a note (1 of 2) XV.i.24
Arms of Maxwell of Calderwood - a note (2 of 2) XV.ii.44
Arms of the Duke of Guelders (and Scottish arms in the Armorial et Tournoi de Bellenville and the Armorial de Gelre) XVII.ii.33
Articles in Exchange Periodicals XVI.iii.61
As Winter Approaches (Old herbal remedies) XLIV.iv.136
Association for Records and Census Indexing XV.iii.50
Auchterarder Junior Conservationists XXVI.iv.102
Auld Hoose, The (A poem) LI.i.31
Australian Houstons XVII.i.25
Bailie Patrick McVicar in Campbeltown and his issue XXXV.iv.162
Baillies of Leys XXVIII.ii.54
Balfour Conference - Sir James Balfour of Denmilne IV.iv.103
Balfours of Pilrig and Melvilles of Strathkinnes VIII.i.17
Ballots for the Skye Militia, 1809-1820 XLI.i.1
Balquhidder ‘No Mans Land’ XXV.i.1
Bankhead (Family history) XXXIV.ii.330
Banking Families, Scottish - Heriot, Law, Paterson, Swinton, Forbes, Hunter, Coutts, Campbell, Cowan, Gairdner etc. VI.i.2
Baronage of Scotland: the History of the Law of Succession and of the Law of Arms in Relation Thereto XLVII.ii.35
Battle of Glenfruin - A Different Perspective (A MacGregor story) XLIX.iv.103
Battles with Landlords - Seventeenth Century Tenancies in Methven parish, Perthshire XLIII.i.1
Behind the Gravestone - Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) LII.ii.65
Beith - its merchants and others 1793-4 XXXV.iii.122
Berbers, Our Ancient Cousins, The I.ii.8
Beware the Registrar XLV.i.18
Beyond Parish Registers - an explanation of source material XLI.ii.67
Birth/Baptism Intervals in Elgin XXXV.iv.154
Birthplace of William Wallace XLV.ii.37
Bogues in Berwickshire XXII.iii.69
Book of Days - Robert Chambers, 1864 LI.ii.74
Border Frolic and its Consequences LIV.ii.63
Borland Clan: Origin and Migration XL.ii.51
Boswell, Bruce and Burns (Connections between the Boswell and Bruce families and Robert Burns) XXXIII.i.142
Bothron Family in Sweden LIV.iii.110
Braes of Glenlivet in the Olden Time XLIII.iv.137
Branch of the family of Dalmahoy XII.ii.13
Breingans of Clackmannanshire XXVII.i.5
Brownlee Family History XLI.iii.102
Budges of Skye XXIII.i.15
Budges, The Genealogy of the (1 of 2) IV.iii.63
Budges, The Genealogy of the (2 of 2) IV.iv.92
Burial Ground Inscriptions IX.iii.7
Burial Ground Inscriptions X.i.10
Burial Ground Inscriptions X.iv.6
Burial Ground Inscriptions XI.i.8
Burial Ground Inscriptions XII.ii.1
Burial Ground Inscriptions XIV.iii.59
Burial Grounds, Pre-1855, Glasgow V.i.2
Burials, Lists of Books Including Records of IV.i.20
Burns' Excise Associates (1 of 3) VI.i.15
Burns' Excise Associates (2 of 3) VI.ii.1
Burns' Excise Associates (3 of 3) VII.ii.11
Burt Affair (A Burt family story) LI.i.18
Bygone Lochaber XVIII.i.10
Caldwells of that Ilk and associated Branches XXVIII.iv.185.
Caledonia at the Cape of Good Hope XXX.iii.89
Camerons of Glendessary and Dungallon: Cadets of Lochiel XVIII.iv.74
Campbell of Craignish - Two Documents VI.iii.14
Campbell Street Burying Ground, Port Glasgow VI.ii.7
Campbells of Jura, The IV.iii.76
Campbells of Strachur XVIII.i.1
Canadian Census Records XI.iii.6
Cargill Family Gathering In Dunedin, New Zealand in February 1984 XXXI.iii.88
Cargills of Dunkeld IX.i.4. .ii.18
Carnwath Parish Registers XX.ii.37
Catholic Records XVIII.iv.93
Catholic Records XXXVIII.iv.142
Celts in Central Europe XXVII.iii.118
Cemeteries, The Old Calton III.ii.33
Census Indexing (Methods of) XXXIV.iv.394
Census of Population in Iceland in 1703 X.i.8
Census Street Indexes - A plea from the Public Record Office XXIX.i.10
Certificates of proclamation of banns 1778-1829 XXXVII.iv.131
Chamberlain Russells (in Earlsmiln) XXVIII.ii.69
Chance in search for Family & Forbears - Binning/Macdonald XXI.ii.54
Charge of the Temporalitie of Church Landis LIII.iv.166
Charles Jardine Don 1820-1866 XXX.iv.122
Charles Lyell (d. 1875) - The founder of modern geology XXXVIII.ii.73
Chart showing some descendants of Charles Campbell in Tuerachan VIII.i.7
Charter of Uchtred, Mac Gille Chonaills in the Isle of Man XLV.i.1
Chiefs in the Cradle - Tutorship examined, Fraser of Lovat (1 of 3) V.i.7
Chiefs in the Cradle - MacLeod, Munro of Foulis (2 of 3) V.ii.30
Chiefs in the Cradle - Conclusion (3 of 3) V.iii.52
Chiefs of Clan MacNachtan II.i.10
Christian name patterns of the Men of the Principal Clans in Sutherland 1678-1834 XXV.iii.73
Chronicle of Press Reports relating to John Paul Jones (1 of 3) XX.ii.39
Chronicle of Press Reports relating to John Paul Jones (2 of 3) XX.iii.53
Chronicle of Press Reports relating to John Paul Jones (3 of 3) XX.iv.81
Church of Scotland Records V.iv.68
Church of Scotland Records VII.iii.10
Church Records (1 of 2) II.iii.14
Church Records (2 of 2) II.iv.11
Churchyard of St Mary in the parish of Camus, Juxta Bann in the diocese of Derry XI.ii.6
Clackmannanshire Haigs LI.i.3
Clan A Mhaighstir of Ardgour XLVI.ii.56
Clan MacThomas - The ancient chiefs XII.iv.87
Clan Mactire (McTyre) Origin XXXV.iv.141
Clan Societies and Genealogical Queries II.i.19
Clan Societies, The Rise of I.ii.14
Clan Societies, The Rise of I.ii.14
Clan Societies, The Rise of III.ii.45
Clandestine Marriage of John Bonar (1696-1752) and Jean Smith (1695-1737) XXXIX.ii.71
Clann Challuim in Lorn MacColmin, MacCalman, MacCallum, MacMalcolm LI.iii.87
Clansmen and Clients - Mackenzie of Delvine, Chisholm of Cromar etc. XII.iii.36
Clock and Watchmakers in Scotland XXIV.iv.113
Club Books VIII.ii.7
Coalmining at Auchanbeg, Lesmahagow, 1770-1922 XXXVII.i.20
Cochrane - A family bible inscription XXV.i.20
Cockburns of that ilk XLIV.ii.66
Cockpen Parish, Midlothian, in 1694 XIX.ii.63
Colinda Voyage (Ayr miners to Vancouver Island in 1853) XXXIV.ii.325
Colloquial Naming I.ii.21
Colonel Sir A. David Stirling DSO, OBE (1915-1990) L.iv.154
Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh VIII.iii.17
Composers, The Genealogy of Early Scottish Music III.iii.54
Computerised Genealogy XL.iv.142
Computers in Genealogy XL.iii.83
Computers in Genealogy XL.iv.147
Concept of Proofs of Nobility in European Genealogy IX.iii.1
Conference Postscript XXII.iii.68
Conflict of Glenfruin & its Aftermath (A MacGregor family story) XLIX.iii.82
Connections between some celebrated Americans and an ancient Scottish Border clan - Irving of Bonshaw XIV.iv.72
Conservation of Graveyards XLIX.ii.42
Corrections to the County Compilations of MI’s XXIV.i.1
Corstorphine Village, Edinburgh XVIII.iii.55
Count von Moltke and Scotland XXIV.i.19
County Compilations of Monumental Inscriptions XV.iii.58
County Compilations of Monumental Inscriptions XVIII.ii.26
County Compilations of Monumental Inscriptions XIX.ii.69
Court of the Lord Lyon (History, functions, description) XXVIII.iv.181
Court of the Lord Lyon in the 21st Century, The Role of LIV.ii.81
Cowie Castle XXXV.i.5
Craigdarroch Castle XXXV.i.23
Craignish Ms: Forgery or Collaboration (Campbells of Craignish) XXXII.ii.47
Creative Genealogy (A McDonald story) XXXIX.i.22
Cuba: English and Irish Immigrants XVII.ii.62
Daedalus, Scottish family name in Swedish Industry & Technics VIII.iv.20
Dalgety's Review - Rules for Clerical Staff LIV.ii.102
Dalmeny Parish Records III.i.12
Darroch - Oak is my name XXXVIII.i.4
Darrochs and MacEascherns XXI.iii.93
Dates in the Life of Flora McDonald XXIX.i.1
Davidson, Dr Anstruther - A noted Scottish pioneer XLVII.iii.84
De Lanys or Lennies of that Ilk L.i.18
Descendants of Robert Stirling 1790-1878 XLIII.ii.41
Descendants of Somerled’s Kin in Norway XLI.ii.62
Descent from the Carmichaels, Boyds and Grahams of Airth XXXVI.iii.92
Descent of James Gifford of West Linton, sculptor, from John the brother of James Gifford of Sheriffhall 1445 XXVI.iv.112
Descent of the Hamilton’s of Shawfield and Turnlaw XVII.ii.58
Descent of the Wellwoods of Touch XVII.i.7
Destruction of Tombstones XVII.ii.61
Development Schemes of the 18th Century, Some Highland III.iii.64
Diary of Alexander Mackenzie (of Lochanully, Duthil) XXVIII.ii.45
Diary of George Eberwein Kieser XXXV.iv.170
Dicksons of Dunkirk XXXVII.ii.48
Dictionary of Emigrant Scots, The III.ii.26
Dictionary of Emigrant Scots, The III.ii.43
Dictionary of Emigrant Scots, The IV.i.22
Dictionary of Emigrant Scots, The IV.iv.105
Dictionary of Emigrant Scots, The V.ii.29
Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants IX.i.1
Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue VIII.iv.3
Did the marriage age of Scottish Brides decrease in the Eighteenth Century? XVIII.ii.21
Did they know who they were? (Mathie, Fogo, Row-Fogo, Laurie) LIV.i.14
Did You See Lord Hamilton Around? A Russian family name of Scottish origin XLIX.iii.84
Difficult Names XLIII.iv.147
Directories (A guide) XLIV.i.1
Disappearing Brydies (Brydie family) XLV.i.7
Dissenting Congregations in pre-Disruption Ayrshire XXXIV.ii.328
Division of Soldiers’ Records between the Public Record Office, Ministry of Defence and Commonwealth War Graves Commission XL.i.16
Do you Recognise any of these Photos? XLIV.ii.83
Do’s and Don’t’s of Genealogy XIII.i.16
Doctors, Dynasties of - Gregory, Hunter, Monro V.ii.22
Doigs of Monteith LII.ii.86
Douglas, Hon. Mary Sydney (1797-1882) of Strathendry House, Leslie, Fife, Life of LIV.i.18
Dr Andro Crawfurd and the cairn of Lochwinyoch XII.ii.9
Drowned? (A shipwreck in the Southern Indian Ocean) XLIV.ii.59
Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society VI.iv.2
Duncan Family, Notes on the I.iv.3
Dundas Family, Old cadet branches of West Lothian - Addenda and corrigenda X.i.4
Dundas Family, Old Cadet Families of West Lothian (1 of 8) V.i.16
Dundas Family, Old Cadet Families of West Lothian (2 of 8) V.ii.35
Dundas Family, Old Cadet Families of West Lothian (3 of 8) V.iii.47
Dundas Family, Old Cadet Families of West Lothian (4 of 8) V.iv.65
Dundas Family, Old Cadet Families of West Lothian (5 of 8) VI.i.12
Dundas Family, Old Cadet Families of West Lothian (6 of 8) VI.ii.14
Dundas Family, Old Cadet Families of West Lothian (7 o 8) VIII.i.22
Dundas Family, Old Cadet Families of West Lothian (8 of 8) VIII.ii.2
Dundas of Duddingston XLVII.iv.115
Earldom of Atholl in the thirteenth century VII.ii.2
Early History of Glengarry and its settlers XVIII.ii.39
Early MacNeil/McNeill arms XXXVI.iv.125
Early McNeill History XXIX.iv.123
Early Records of the McLachlan XXIII.ii.25
Early Scots at Montreal XXIX.ii.33
Early Scottish Settlement on Prince Edward Island - Princetown Pioneers XLI.iii.112
East Anglian Stewarts LI.iv.151
East India Register & Directories 1768-1860 LI.ii.63
Edinburgh Burgh Records V.iii.42
Edinburgh County Militia of 1799, The XXXI.iii.90
Edinburgh Recorder (An extraordinary source of genealogical information for the period 1720-1840) XXXVIII.ii.59
Edinburgh Royal Mile V.iii.57
Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers XXXIX.ii.77
Elgin Fencibles (Officers in 1795) XXXVII.ii.40
Elie OPR - Deaths and Burials XXXIII.iii.214
Elizabeth Hamilton of Finnart, wife of John Maxwell, 8th Laird of Calderwood LII.ii.51
Emigrant Scot I.i.15
Emigrant Scot, The - A survey of Scottish emigration and influence XXI.iv.116
Emigration from North-east Scotland 1830-1900 XXXII.ii.33
Emigration from St. Martins Parish, Perthshire 1841-51 LII.ii.62
Englishmen in the Scottish Excise Department 1707-1823 XIII.ii.16
Entails as an aid to the Genealogist XXIV.i.5
Euphemia - an interesting name XXXIX.iii.113
Evaluation of Military Indexes XLIX.i.7
Evolution of Gaelic Surnames in Kintyre XXXIII.ii.188
Extract from ‘The New Yorker’ Magazine 11 April 1964, p. 156 Clear Days on the Bench XXII.i.19
Extract from Australian Newspaper re Greaves XI.iii.4
Extract from Rigasche Biographion IX.i.6
Extract from the speech of the President of the St Andrew Society of Philadelphia on 31st May 1973 XXI.i.21
Extracts from the death duty register at the PRO, London, relating to wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury XXX.iii.73
Families of Scotland, Notes on Sir George Mackenzie's IV.ii.38
Families of Scotland, Notes on Sir George Mackenzie's IV.iii.76
Families of the Lennox: A Survey - Lennox, MacFarlane, Galbraith, Buchanan, Colquhoun, Drummond, Fleming, Napier, Graham, Spreull, Lindsay, Campbell, Dennistoun, Noble, Blair, Cunningham, Kincaid, MacLachlan etc. XXII.ii.29
Family History - Its Social Aspect XLVII.i.14
Family History Resources in Kirkcaldy District XXXVIII.iii.101
Family History Talks XXXVIII.i.40
Family of Andrew Russell (Merchant in Rotterdam 1670-1695) XXXVII.i.18
Family of Duncan Menzies of Menzies XIX.iii.83
Family of Gifford in Shetland and their descent from the Giffords of Sheriffhall XXVIII.ii.60
Family of Mavor XVII.i.15
Family of Sir John Ogilvy, First Baronet of Inverquharity XLIII.iii.96
Family Papers, Arranging and Indexing IV.ii.42