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Help & Other Resources grandfather or earlier. If Arms are being rerecorded, several generations may be included. Remember that you can learn a lot by exploring the “Help & Other Resources tab. By clicking on the Blue words there, you can link into the various subjects. The following table summarizes some of the information there: Subject Description Customer Information Contains a step by step guide to the website including how to register, cost, changing your account, password issues and how to view images. Getting Started A beginner’s guide to Scottish research Help With Searching An extremely useful guide on how to get the most out of your searches including using wildcards, the impact of Scottish name variations and illegitimacy. Extant OPRs Find out what church records actually exist for any Church of Scotland parish. Extant CPRs Find out what church records actually exist for any Catholic parish in Scotland. About The Courts This will help you understand the Probate Jurisdictions in Scotland. It includes links to a list of Courts and records and a map showing court jurisdictions. List of Parishes & Registration You can download a complete list of parishes (usually equivalent to Districts registration districts) in Excel or PDF format Counties Map After clicking on the link, you have to click on “Genuki” to see a map of pre-1974 Scotland counties. This map may not print very well. Courts Map This takes you to a clickable county map of Scotland. You can click on each county and get a list of courts with time period of available records. The counties are not labeled however so you will want to know where your county is before using this. Counties and Commissariots This list shows you the names of the Commissariots (courts) by county List Counties and Sheriff Courts List This list shows you the Sherriff Courts by county. This is important because in 1824, the Sheriff’s Courts became the primary court for probate records. Parish Descriptions Click on the “EDINA” link on this page to find out more about the geography, history, economic, social and religious life of individual Scottish parishes in the 1790's and the 1830's/40's. After clicking the “EDINA” link, go to “For non-subscribers” and click on “Browse scanned pages”. You can then type in the name of your parish in the “Search by name box”. This will bring up a list of available reports which you can then click on and review. Written mainly by the incumbent parish ministers, Statistical accounts exist for each of the 938 parishes in Scotland. Although they vary in the amount of detail, they all give a fascinating, contemporary insight into how your ancestors lived and worked, and start to bring them alive in a way that the genealogy alone cannot do.
Help With Results This brings up a list of record types in a column on the left side of the screen. By clicking on a record type, reasons for not finding a record are listed as well as possible next steps to take. Technical Information Information on computer system requirements, browser (i.e. Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) capability and viewing and printing images is available here. Research Tools Contains great information on a wide variety of subjects, including: handwriting help, form of testaments, sums of money, produce, weights & measures and what to do if you can’t read a word or a letter. It also contains a glossary of terms such as: occupations, unusual words, common word abbreviations, and medical terms. You can also find historical information on the way people lived including: hearth & home, the clothes they wore, their working lives and other curiosities. STRATEGIES An “Other Resources” tab contains links websites with information on: societies, statistics, records, military records, heritage, genealogical information sites, immigration/emigration and maps and gazetteers. The “Discussion Groups” section can allow you to connect with people researching all over the world, including in Scotland. 1. Before using any of your credits on index searches, experiment with your search variables. Try different spelling variations of surname. The name may not be recorded the way you think. Keep track of the variables you try. 2. Never forget spelling variations. 99.9% of the time your ancestor is not writing down their own name in a record. It will be written however the scribe or clerk felt it should be written. The default searches work as follows: a. The default surname search will return all entries with that surname (example: a search for the surname Gillie will give you the Brown-Gillie and Gillie-Stewarts. b. The default given name search will also give you all entries with that given name (example: a search for Ann will give you Ann, Mary Ann, Ann Eliza etc.) c. Variations in given name or surname will not be automatically included in your search results unless you check the “Use Soundex” box or the “Return all forenames that begin with these characters” box. 3. Use “Soundex” and/or “Wildcards” in your searches (you can’t use both at the same time). The following wildcards can be used at ScotlandsPeople: a. Use * (asterisk) or % (percent) for zero or more characters (example: Bro* for Brown, Browning, Brough or Mar* for Mary, Margaret, Maria, Mary Ann b. Using * is excellent for Mc or Mac. By searching for M*cDonald, you will get both McDonald and MacDonald. For numerous spelling variations, you can use two or more wildcards (Example: M*cGil*v?r*y will give you McGilvery, McGillvery, McGilivary, McGillivery, McGilleveray etc.) c. Use ? or _ for substituting one character only (example: Johns?n for Johnson or Johnsen) d. Searches in the surname field must include 2 or more letters (example: you cannot search for M* but can search for M*c or Ma*).
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