The Scottish Genealogy Society

The Scottish Genealogist - Cumulative Index 1954-2007

Compiled by Dr. James D. Floyd, John and Margaret Kinnaird, D. Richard Torrance and other members of the Society. The indices listed below contain nearly 11,000 entries.

Index Sub-divisions

• Article titles – 1112 entries. This index covers all volumes.
• Contributors/Authors – 627 entries. This index currently covers volumes 28-52 (1981-2005). In early volumes contributors/authors are to be found in the General Index.
• General Index (Large file over 1 MB) – 4578 entries. In earlier volumes this includes all information that was sub-divided in later indexes.
• Illustrations – 288 entries. This index covers all volumes and includes pictures, charts, graphs and family trees.
• Obituaries – 48 entries. This index covers all volumes.
• Queries (Large file over 1 MB) – 4105 entries. For the period from March 1954 to December 1981 the index of queries usually includes a surname, forename, location or area and sometimes a profession. Unfortunately, the index for queries from March 1982 to December 1987 only shows a surname. From March 1998 queries were not indexed.
• Reviews – 118 entries. This index covers volumes 40-52 (1993-2005). In early volumes reviews are to be found in the General Index.
• Work in Progress – 54 entries. This feature only ran for six years from volume 42-47 (1995-2000) and provides details of on-going genealogy projects undertaken by members.

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Introduction

Indices to The Scottish Genealogist have been published at regular intervals and distributed to those who were members of the Society at the time of publication. The index to the first 28 volumes was one large index with no sub-divisions. As a great number of queries were published it was decided to include these in a section of their own from volume 29 onwards. From volume 41 the index was split into the following sections: General index; Article Titles; Contributors; Reviews; Work in Progress; Queries. A separate section for Illustrations was included in the index for volumes 45-52.

Back issues

Back issues can be ordered from the Society's on-line shop. Entries in the indexes (listed above) link directly to the relevant issue in the on-line shop.

Binders

Binders can be ordered from the Society's on-line shop.

Digital copies

Back issues are available as Adobe Acrobat .pdf downloads for the period from 1954 (when the journal was first published) to 2005. Issues of the journal from 2006 onwards are available in printed form only.

Issue numbering

There has not been uniformity in the numbering format used by the different compilers of the indices. A volume covers one year during which 4 journals were issued usually in March, June, September and December. These have been harmonised to follow the most commonly used pattern:

Volume number – Roman numerals capitals
Journal number – Roman numerals lower case
Page number – Arabic numerals

Example:

XXXIX.iv.116 – Volume 39, December issue, page 116.

Page numbering

Page numbering in the journals has not been consistent over the years. For the majority of volumes the page number begins with page 1 in the March issue and continues consecutively until the last page in the December issue for any given year.

Some years however each issue of the quarterly journal starts at page 1.

Journals for 1985-1987 number consecutively from page 1 - 415

Format

In 1987 the Scottish Genealogist changed to an A5 format commencing with volume 34.

Covers

Originally the Journal had a grey cover. Starting with volume XLII.ii. the cover was changed to blue card as the Society discovered that they were being charged a premium for the cover as grey card was difficult to source. In 2002 the Society moved to a glossy, full colour cover. From volume LI.ii. illustrations were introduced on the back cover.

Roman Numerals

Issues in the year (quarterly issues)

i = 1 ii = 2 iii = 3 iv = 4

Volumes

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