This page aims to list the useful website, social media and book links that have been useful to me in this project and will hopefully provide further sources of knowledge and information for you, dear reader.
Facebook Pages and Groups
- Allanach Family History Page – Please follow and like this page to get updates on this site.
- Aberdeen & NE Scotland Family History Society – Best place on Facebook for NE family history discussion.
- Scottish Place-names/ Ainmean-àite na h-Alba – A discussion group for the origin of placenames in Scotland
- Aberdeenshire Genealogy & DNA
- Society for On-Place Studies – The study I have done on Glen Nochty is registered on this site
1/ Census and Registry info
- Scotland – Scotland’s People
- England & Wales – GRO
2/ Maps and Legal Documents
- Scotland – National Library of Scotland Side by Side Map Viewer
- Scotland – Scotland’s Places
- Scotland – National Records of Scotland
- Scotland – Aberdeenshire historic tax records
3/ Archaeology & Wider History
- Scotland – Canmore
- Scotland – Historic Environment Record
4/ Newspaper Archives
Scotland
- Ayr Advertiser (1803–1835) BMD index Free
- Highland History & Culture index and article summaries Free
- Inverness Advertiser (1849–1885)
- Inverness Courier (1879, 1898–1901, 1920–1939)
- Inverness Journal (1807–1849)
- John O’Groat Journal (1836–1887)
- Scottish Highlander (1885–1898)
- Scotland On Sunday (1988– )
- The Scotsman Digital Archive 1817–2002 (Pay/Free with Athens account)
- The Evening Times (1914–1990) (Glasgow) via Google News Archive
- The Glasgow Herald (1806–1990) via Google News Archive
- Word on the Street 1650–1910 almost 1,800 Scottish broadsides at National Library of Scotland Free
UK
- British Newspaper Archive (free access within British Library reading rooms) Pay
- Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (1781) Free
- Last Chance To Read (18th–19th centuries) c. 3,000 British and Irish newspapers and periodicals; coverage includes Cheshire, Hampshire, Gloucesteshire, Kent, London, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Surrey, Worcestershire, Yorkshire, and Dublin Police Gazette/Hue and Cry (mainly Pay with some Free content)
- Richard Heaton’s Index to Digitalised British and Irish Newspapers Online Free lists newspapers by county and details which online collection includes the newspaper
5/ Books & Literature
Digital Libraries
- International – Googlebooks
- International – Open Library
- International – Bartleby
- International – LibriVox
- International – Authorama
- International – Internet Archive
- International – ChestofBooks.com
- International – The Online Books Page
- International – Project Gutenberg
- Scotland – ElectricScotland
Academic
- International – JSTOR
- UK – Bodelian Thesis Library
- UK – EThOS
Bibliography
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- A History of Everyday Life in Scotland 1600-1800
- Warriors of the Word – The definitive ‘Bible’ for Gaelic and Highland traditions, folklore and cultural life
- Isabel Grant – Highland Folk Ways
6/ Local Archives
- UK – The Society of Genealogists
- Scotland – SAFHS
- Scotland – The Scottish Genealogy Society
- Scotland – Aberdeenshire – Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society
- Scotland – Aberdeenshire – Glenbuchat
- Scotland – Aberdeenshire – Alford – Alford Heritage Museum
- Scotland – Aberdeenshire – Alford – Alford Image Library
- Scotland – Aberdeenshire – Aberdeen – Aberdeen Maritime Museum
- Scotland – Aberdeenshire – Aberdeen – Gordon Highlanders Museum
7/ Family Stories/ Personal Papers
- allanach.co.uk
- International – Ancestry
8/ Folklore Studies
- International – Wikisource Folklore Studies
- Scotland – Tobar an Dualchais
9/ Songs and Music
- Scotland – Bothy Ballads / Scots Language Centre
- Scotland – Horsemans Word and Bothy Ballads
- Scotland – The Bothy Ballads: The Social Context and Meaning of the Farm Servants’ Songs of North-Eastern Scotland by Bob Munro
10/ Modern Media & Visual Storytelling
- Scotland – The History of Aberdeen Angus Cattle (BBC Grand Tours)
- Scotland – Allanach Family History – Our place on Youtube!
- Scotland – Terrabytes – Mapping project for NE Scotland archaeology and history