There are dozens of sites available to help you in your Scottish research; Scotlandspeople is just the tip of the iceberg! Sites like GenUKI, ScotlandsPlaces, SCAN and the National Library of Scotland are all free websites available to you from 'across the pond.'

 

Tina Beaird is the owner of Tamarack Genealogy and is the Genealogy / Local History Librarian at the Plainfield Public Library in Illinois. She lectures nationally on military research, genealogical methodology, Scottish records, and archival preservation. She is First Vice President of the Illinois Historical League and the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board. Tina volunteers her time with several local historical and genealogical societies scanning and indexing historic records. Tina loves to travel with her husband and her sons. An obsessive baseball fan, she has visited 22 of 30 Major League ballparks.

 

 

Searching for German-speaking ancestors is undergoing a paradigm shift in which the resources of Ancestry, FamilySearch and European-based Genealogy.net are all major players and German church records are being digitized. Learn about the many websites that can help you break down brick walls and find the villages of origin for your ancestors!