Discover Your Scottish Ancestry

This guide has been fully revised and updated, taking into account changes in resources and methods in recent decades. Accessible and comprehensive, this new edition emphasizes the importance of traditional methods in researching one's family history and the exciting possibilities of technologies, sources, and developments in genetic science. Indispensable to both the fledgling researcher and the more experienced specialist, this book outlines the very latest resources available and covers Scottish primary and secondary sources in detail, providing illustrative case studies and lists of Web sites, archives, and family history organizations and societies.