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Sources for Scottish and Scots-American Genealogy
Handbooks,
Manuals, and General Sources
- Anderson, William.
The Scottish Nation; or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours,
and Biographical History of the People of Scotland. Edinburgh:
A. Fullarton & Co., 1859.
- Location:
Wilson (non-circulating) quarto 920 An24
- British Records
Association. Handlist of Scottish and Welsh Record Publications.
London, 1954.
- Location:
Wilson 016.942 B778h
- The Concise
Scots Dictionary. Editor-in-chief, Mairi Robinson. Aberdeen: Aberdeen
University Press, 1987.
- Location:
Wilson PE2106 .C66 1987
- Ferguson, Joan
P.S. Scottish Family Histories Held in Scottish Libraries.
Edinburgh: Scottish Central Library, 1960.
- Compilation
of 2,000 Scottish family histories arranged alphabetically by family
name.
Location: Wilson 016.92 F381
- Ferguson, Joan
P.S. Scottish Newspapers Held in Scottish Libraries. Edinburgh:
Scottish Central Library, 1956.
- Location:
Wilson Reference Z921 .A12 S36x 1956
- Gibson, Jeremy
Sumner. Wills and Where to Find Them. Baltimore: Genealogical
Pub. Co., 1974.
- Location:
Wilson 027.2 G358
- Macfarlane, Walter.
Genealogical Collections Concerning Families in Scotland. Edinburgh:
Scottish History Society, 1900. v. 33-34.
- Location:
Wilson 941 Sco874 v.33-34
- Moody, David.
Scottish Family History. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub.
Co., 1994.
- Location:
Wilson CS463 .M66 1994
- Moody, David.
Scottish Local History: An Introductory Guide. London: Batsford,
1986.
- Location:
Wilson DA760 .M6x 1986
- Musgrave, William,
Sir. Obituary Prior to 1800 (as far as related to England, Scotland,
and Ireland). London, 1899-1901, 6 v.
- Location:
Wilson quarto 906 H22 v.44-49
- New York Public
Library. A List of Works Relating to Scotland. New York: The
New York Public Library, 1916.
- Location:
Wilson quarto 016.941 N48
- Reid, Judith
F. Sources for Research in Scottish Genealogy. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, Humanities and Social Sciences Division,
1992.
- Location:
Wilson Gov Pub (US Docs) LC 1.6/5:;17
- Simpson, Grant
G. Scottish Handwriting, 1150-1650: An Introduction to the Reading
of Documents. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1977.
- Location:
Wilson Z115 .S3 S55 1977
- Stuart, Margaret.
Scottish Family History, A Guide to Works of Reference on the History
and Genealogy of Scottish Families. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd,
1930.
Prefaced with an essay on how to write the history of a family by
Sir James Balfour Paul.
- Location:
Wilson Preservation (ask at circulation desk) 016.92 St93
Clans,
Nobility, Heraldry, and Tartans
- Adam, Frank.
The Clans, Septs, and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands,
7th ed. Edinburgh: Johnston & Bacon, 1965.
- Location:
Wilson Reference DA880 .H6 A6 1965
- Bain, Robert.
The Clans and Tartans of Scotland. Enlarged and re-edited by
Margaret O. MacDougall. 4th ed. London: Collins, c1961.
- Location:
Wilson 941 B16
- Bumsted, J.M.
The People's Clearance: Highland Emigration to British North America,1770-1815.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; Winnipeg, Canada: University
of Manitoba Press, 1982.
- Location:
Wilson 325.71 B881
- Cairney, C. Thomas.
Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland: An Ethnography of the
Gael, A.D. 500-1750. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1989.
- Location:
Wilson Reference DA927 .C35 1989
- Fergusson, James,
Sir. Lowland Lairds. London: Faber and Faber, 1949. Short essays
on seven lowland clans.
- Location:
Wilson 941 F381
- Gimble, Ian.
Scottish Clans and Tartans. New York: Tudor Pub., Co., 1973.
- Location:
Wilson 941 G881
- Grant, Neil.
Scottish Clans and Tartans. New York: Crescent Books, 1987.
- Location:
Wilson quarto DA880 .H6 G72x 1987
- Paul, James Balfour,
Sir. The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914. 9v.
(Volume 9 is an index.)
- Location:
Wilson 929.72 P281
- The Scottish
Clans and Their Tartans: A History of Each Clan and Full List of Septs.
36th ed. Edinburgh: A. & A.K. Johnston, 1951.
- Location:
Wilson 941 Sco872
- Way, George.
Collins Scottish Clan and Family Encyclopedia. Glasgow: Harper
Collins Publishers, 1994.
- Location:
Wilson Reference DA880 .H76 W38 1994
Emigration
and Immigration
- Adams, Ian.
Cargoes of Despair and Hope: Scottish Emigration to North American,
1603-1803. Wilson E49.2 .S3 A33 1993
- Cameron, Viola
Root. Emigrants from Scotland to America, 1774-1775: Copied from
a Loose Bundle of Treasury Papers in the Public Record Office, London,
England. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965.
- Location:
Wilson 325.73 C146
- Craig, David.
On the Crofters' Trail: In Search of the Clearance Highlanders.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.
- Location:
Wilson F1035 .S4 C72x 1990
- Dobson, David.
Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1994.
- Location:
Wilson E184 .S3 D66 1994
- Erickson, Charlotte.
Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants
in Nineteenth-Century America. Coral Gables, FL: University of
Miami Press, 1972. Series of letters from Scottish immigrants. Includes
index.
- Location:
Wilson 973 Er44
- Graham, Ian
Charles Cargill. Colonists from Scotland. Ithaca, NY: Published
for the American Historical Association by Cornell University Press,
1956.
- Location:
Wilson 325.73 G76
- Handley, James
Edmund. The Irish in Scotland, 1798-1815. Cork: Cork University
Press, 1915.
- Location:
Wilson 325.41 H192
- Harper, Marjory.
Emigration from North-East Scotland. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University
Press, 1988.
- Wilson JV7701
.H37x 1988
- Hunter, James.
A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States
and Canada. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1994.
- Location:
Ask at Refernce Desk
- MacLean, John
Patterson. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders
in America prior to the Peace of 1783. Cleveland: The Helman-Taylor
Co., 1900.
- Wilson 973 M2191
- MacDougall,
Donald John. Scots and Scots' Descendants in America. New York:
Caledonian Publishing Company, 1917.
- Wilson quarto
973 M147
- Meyer, Duane
Gilbert. The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776. Chapel
Hill: University or North Carolina Press, 1961.
- Location:
Wilson 978.1 M575
- Ross, Peter.
The Scot in America. New York: The Raeburn Book Company, 1896.
- Wilson Annex-Sub
Basement 973 R733
- Whyte, Donald.
A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation.
Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986.
- Location:
Wilson F1035.S4 W49x 1986
Maps
and Gazetteers
- Gardner, David
E. A Genealogical Atlas of Scotland: Compiled from Original Maps.
Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1962.
- Location:
Wilson Borchert Map Library G1826 .E1 G3 1962
- Great Britain.
General Register Office (Scotland). Place Names and Population,
Scotland: An Alphabetical List of Populated Places Derived from the
Census of Scotland. Edinburgh, London: H.M.S.O., 1967.
- Location:
Wilson Borchert Map Library (Gazetteer) HB2047 .A46
- Great Britain.
Ordnance Survey. Gazetteer of Great Britain: Giving the National
Grid References to All Features Names on the 17 Sheets of the Ordnance
Survey Quarter-Inch Maps. Southampton: The Survey, 1975.
- Location:
Wilson Borchert Map Library (Gazetteer) quarto 914.2 G7985
- Groome, Francis
Hindes. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland; A Graphic and Accurate
Description of Every Place in Scotland. New ed. Edinburgh: T.C.
and E.C. Jack, 1901.
- Location:
Wilson Borchert Map Library (Gazetteer) 914.1 G899b
- Moll, Herman.
A Set of Thirty-six New and Correct Maps of Scotland: Divided into
Its Shires. Stirling: R.S. Shearer, 1896. Reprinted from the first
edition of 1725.
- Location:
Wilson Borchert Map Library (Rare Atlas) Flat 912.41 M735
- Royal Scottish
Geographical Society. The Early Maps of Scotland to 1850. 3d
rev. & enl. ed. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Geographical Society,
1973-. v.1 Includes a history of Scottish maps by D.G. Moir.
- Location:
Wilson Borchert Map Library 912.41 In4a
Periodicals
- Northern Notes
and Queries.
Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1888-1890. Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1888) - Vol.4,
no.16 (1890). Continued by The Scottish Antiquary.
- Location:
Ask at circulation
- The Scottish
Antiquary. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1891-1903. Vol.5, no.
17 (June 1890) - Vol. 17, no. 68 (April 1903).
- Location:
Ask at circulation
- Scottish Notes
and Queries. Aberdeen: D. Wyllie and Son. 1887-1935 (incomplete).
- Location:
Ask at circulation
Searching
MNCAT
You can use MNCAT,
the University Libraries' computerized catalog, to search for specific
subjects. The following are some examples of useful subject terms for
genealogists; other examples are found in the Library of Congress Subject
Headings books located in Wilson Reference.
archives--great
britain
church of scotland--clergy
church of scotland--history
clans--scotland
highlands (scotland)
names, geographical--scotland
names personal--scotland
nobility--scotland
registers of births, etc--scotland
scotland--biography
scotland--emigration and immigration
scotland--genealogy
scotland--maps
scotland--peerage
scots--[country], for example: scots--united states or scots--canada
scottish americans
tartans
wills--great britain
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