My 3x great grandparents John Mavor and Elizabeth Ledingham, in Ellon, Scotland never registered the births of their 11 children. Over the...

.. . or  Northern  Notes & Queries (and Replies) The Scottish Antiquary was a magazine that began in 1886, and was modeled a...

In 1820 there was an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Savannah Georgia, taking over 700 lives, including two doctors that were tending to the s...

In 1879 the Honorable J H Pope, the Agriculture Minister of Canada, invited tenant farmers' delegates from the UK to visit the Domin...

This book,  The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation , has genealogical information of the ministers f...

I am finally caught up on life stuff after getting back from my Scotland trip, and now it's time to tell you all about it.  For res...

First things first.  Not all Scots belong to one of the big clans.  My Tait family were border reivers of Middle March. Although they had ...

My Lamont (Lawmonth, Lamount) ancestors lived in Largo, Fife, Scotland. John Lawmonth wrote in his diaries of the goings on in Fife and me...

Move over Patrick.... November 30th is St Andrew's Day! So steam clean your kilt, dust off the bagpipes and make up some haggis! ...

We all know now that ScotlandsPeople website has had an overhaul and it is now free to view the indexes. We get so busy looking for our a...

Thee are so many types of magazines today. I used to get gift subscriptions to magazines with children stories from my aunts. I give monthl...

While trying to find information on my ancestor from Peterhead, I came across this publication... Records of Old Aberdeen - Printed ...

Glass objects come in all shapes and sizes, from delicate hand blown decorations to everyday bottles to huge expanses of plate glass for h...

Bagpipes were once used to call men to war, to encourage them to keep fighting and perhaps to help drown out the sounds of battle. ...

Sometimes I come across something that intrigues me. I was at the Hathitrust Library website, going through a Stone Cutter's Journal ...