Other genealogy resources

Isle of Tiree Genealogy www.tireegenealogy.com A wealth of information about Tiree and its people by Keith Dash, Australia.

Tiree Graves www.tireegraves.org.uk A searchable database of all of the older inscribed headstones in Tiree’s graveyards.

Tiree Place Names www.tireeplacenames.org A searchable database of the Gaelic names of houses, crofts and features of the landscape, including houses named after the people who lived in them.

Tiree Ancestral Roots www.facebook.com/groups A public meeting place on Facebook for those who trace their ancestral roots to the Isle of Tiree.

Isle of Tiree DNA www.facebook.com/groups A members-only branch of the ‘Tiree Ancestral Roots’ Facebook group. Descendants explore and assist each other in the pursuit of their connections.

Scotland’s People www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk The official government source of genealogical data for Scotland.

Old Parish Registers www.nrscotland.gov.uk  Records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials kept by the Church of Scotland before civil registration was introduced in 1855.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org Includes a Register of the details of Commonwealth war dead so that graves or names on memorials can be located.

Archive items tagged ‘Emigration’ www.aniodhlann/emigration A list of everything in An Iodhlann’s archive database related to the emigration of Tiree’s people.

“One Island’s Harvest”. Heritage, Diaspora & Ancestral Tourism to Tiree
a thesis by Joanna Rodgers exploring “ancestral tourism, a globally ubiquitous heritage tourism practice which in Scotland has become entangled with specific narratives about diaspora, tourism and heritage”. Rodgers_thesis.pdf (uhi.ac.uk)