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1998.329.17

Softback book ‘Tracing Scottish Local History’ by Cecil Sinclair, the Scottish Record Office, 1996. Guide to a survey of material held in the Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh – dealing with houses, streets, estates, farms, administrative divisions of Scotland, schools, businesses and recreational activities, with step-by-step instructions on how to research the material and directions to other sources of information.

1998.329.16

Softback book ‘Tracing your Scottish Ancestors’ by Cecil Sinclair, Scottish Record Office, 1997. Guide to the vast range of material held in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh such as records of Scottish national and local government, Scottish churches, law courts, private families and businesses, with step-by-step instructions of how to research records of births, marriages and wills, and directions to other less well-known genealogical information.

2018.41.2

Softback book ‘Getting the most out of Roots Magic’, by Bruce Buzbee, 2003. Handbook to the genealogy software Roots Magic, by FormalSoft Inc., USA.

2018.41.1

Booklet ‘The Scottish Genealogist’ – the quarterly journal of the Scottish Genealogy Society, Vol. LI No.2, June 2004. Includes articles on the Scottish Archive Network and Scottish Documents, Some Descendants of Robert the Bruce, East India Register and Directories 1768-1860, A Family Historian’s Alphabet [dictionary], sales catalogue of genealogical resources.

2018.40.1

Softback booklet ‘MacLeans – A Biographical Dictionary of Mull People Mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries’, compiled by Jo Currie, 2002. Includes a section on page 34 about Donald MacLean (McLean; b. 1815) MD, son of the Rev Neil MacLean, minister of Tiree, who was in turn the son of Donald MacLean, minister of the Small Isles.

 

2017.24.3

Softback book ‘Les Ecossais – The Pioneer Scots of Lower Canada, 1763-1855’, by LH Campey, 2006. Account of the migration of Highland and westcoast Scots to Lower Canada in the 18th century. Although Mull, Arran and Lewis are mentioned, Tiree is not. Includes details of ships transporting people from Scotland to Quebec and passenger lists for ships sailing from Fort William and Saltcoats.

1999.203.1

Black fabric-covered hardback booklet ‘Dead Reckoning, Altitude and Azimuth Table’, 3rd edition, by A.A. Ageton. Maritime navigational formulae produced by the United States Navy Department Hydrographic Office, 1943. Handwritten in fountain pen on the inside cover is “This Book is the Property of the Republic of Liberia”.