Emma Maxwell - Scottish Indexes

🆕 New from Scottish Indexes: We’ve compiled a list of freely available books on Internet Archive to support your Scottish family history research.
📚 Browse the list: archive.org/details/@emm... #Genealogy #ScottishHistory #FamilyResearch #ScottishIndexes

After her great talk about Glamis estate at the recent @scottishindexes.bsky.social conference, their archivist has sent me images of rental records featuring my ancestors who were tenants there. Looks like there's plenty more where that came from, so there's a trip up north in my future #GenHour

The Miners A selective list of resources relating to housing in Scottish mining communities 1880-1930.

Resources for anyone interested in mining communities in Scotland in the nineteenth century and early-twentieth century. Includes museums to visit. Recently edited. Suggestions welcome. #genealogy #FamilyHistory #skystorians #mining 📚🗃️
thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/housing-the-...

Scotland's Criminal Database: www.scottishindexes.com/ScotlandsCri...

We have added 34,662 entries to Scotland's Criminal Database. This update coveres the following prisons: Aberdeen, Dumbarton, Edinburgh (Calton Jail), Edinburgh (Police Prison), helensburgh, Inveraray, Leith Police Prison, Linlithgow, Musselburgh, Paisley, Rothesay and Wick.

Scottish Indexes Conference - Saturday 13 Sept 2025.
Interested in tracing your Scottish genealogy? Expert advice. Time-zone friendly. Each presentation is shown twice. Free to attend. @scottishindexes.bsky.social #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland
www.scottishindexes.com/conference.a...

Hot off the press!

Pick up the July 2025 Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine to read my masterclass article, ‘Sheriff Court Paternity Records’.

Live in the UK? Who Do You Think You Are? with Diane Morgan is available on BBC iPlayer.

#WDYTYA #Scotland #paternity @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social

I had to search over 70 dusty archive boxes to find these cases! Great to be part of #WDYTYA.

It was great fun!

Did someone in your family work for the Post Office? Here's how to find their employment record online 📮

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

An image of the old Canmore website with an arrow to the new Trove website.

Do you use Historic Environment Scotland's data? If so you need to know that Canmore is being retired this June.

Trove (www.trove.scot) is replacing it and is now online in beta.

Please try it out and feedback your comments here: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/470...

Return of documents after historical thefts NRS has completed the return of thousands of documents taken from its archives and several other institutions by a single person decades ago.

National Records of Scotland (NRS) has completed the return of thousands of documents that were stolen from its archives and from other UK institutions by a single individual between 1949 and 1980. www.nrscotland.gov.uk/latest-news/...

#history #Genealogy #archives

2025 Live | The Really Useful Show

This weekend! The Really Useful Show LIVE in the South West. 🌳 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

National Records of Scotland closed on Thursday 27 March

I can’t see a mention of this online but when we were in the Historical Search Room yesterday we were told that the NRS would be closed on Thursday and open as usual on Friday.

Hope this saves someone a wasted journey!

Fabulous day with @chrismpaton.bsky.social, @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social, @acspring.bsky.social and all our other presenters. If you missed this Scottish genealogy extravaganza, you have a day or so to catch up here: www.facebook.com/groups/scott...

Family & Local History societies and organisations starter pack. Let us know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/SUyvXhf

Thank you for this. I have been meaning to check this out for a current project!

If you're wondering what happened to the original Glasgow University building in the city centre, here it is. Or rather, what's left of it! The staircase, built 1690 in the old building, is incorporated into the new one, but now faces the opposite direction to how it went originally. #recycling

So many new accounts on Bluesky that I would like to invite all the #Genealogy interested people to #GenHour chat time between 8-9pm GMT every Thursday. It is a thriving live chat time where you can get new followers and find people to follow as well as read lots of interesting information. Do come

#genealogy Tips for BlueSky Newbies:

Use CamelCase for your hashtags: #AncestryHour #GenHour #GenChat #FamilyHistory

It's been on my to-do list for a while! What have I missed?

This time next week I'll be back in Oz for the first time in 7 years, catching up with genies down under! If you're not on the 18th UTP #genealogy cruise, I hope you can join us in Sydney, Adelaide or Brisbane. Details at www.gould.com.au/chris-paton-... - it should be great craic! #FamilyHistory

Do you want to trace your family history earlier than 1750? If so, an understanding of some unfamiliar terms will help you. Join the Scottish Indexes conference to advance your research skills: Saturday, 23 November 2024.

Do you have coal mining ancestors? Housing the Miners stretches from mid-C19th in Ayrshire across the central belt to the Lothians in the 1920s. Talk shown twice. #coal #FamilyHistory #Scotland #genealogy #LocalHistory 🗃️

The next ScottishIndexes conference is this Sat 23rd, details at www.scottishindexes.com/conference.a..., free to attend. I'm giving a talk twice in the day about using the Internet & PRONI for NI #FamilyHistory research. Also doing the 2 hour long Q&As. I hope you can join us! #genealogy #Ireland