*** LINKS to Dunbartonshire Resources ***

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Some links for Dunbartonshire resources to aid research:

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Archives

• East Dunbartonshire Archives - www.edlc.co.uk/heritage.aspx
• West Dunbartonshire Archives - www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/tourism-and-visitor-attractions/local-history-and-heritage/family-history/trace-your-family-history/
• Clydebank Heritage Centre - www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/tourism-and-visitor-attractions/local-history-and-heritage/clydebank-heritage-centre/
• Dumbarton Milngavie Heritage Centre - http://www.visiteastdunbartonshirenow.co.uk/castles-and-historic-buildings/280-milngavie-heritage-centre

Birth, Marriage and Death Records

• Essential links for Scottish Research, general across the country - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,116131.0.html
• Where to start with Scottish Research? - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,24468.0.html
• Getting the best out of Scotlands People - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,562668.0.html
• The Scottish Way of Birth and Death...(1855-1939)  www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,578172.0.html

Burials and Monumental Inscriptions

• East Dunbartonshire:Burial and cremation records 

https://www.edlc.co.uk/heritage-arts/family-history/burial-and-cremation-records

• West Dunbartonshire cemeteries - http://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/birth-marriage-death/burials-and-cremations/cemeteries-and-crematorium/ New link.

• Milburn Churchyard, Renton and Alexandria Parish Churchyard, Alexandria. MIs available to purchase on CD from www.gwsfhs.org.uk or can be viewed at Dumbarton Library. Bonhill and Campsie also available to view/order on CD.
• Old Graveyard Rosneath -  http://web.archive.org/web/20120303193427/http://members.madasafish.com/~fairenough/
• A number of Dunbartonshire cemeteries are included here www.memento-mori.co.uk This is free to search and view index. Photograghs of gravestones with full transcriptions are available on request for a small fee. Please check the site.

Census

• Freecen https://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl has now excellent coverage of the earlier censuses. 100% coverage of the 1841 and 1851 censuses (as at Jan.2013 - check here for updates www.freecen.org.uk/statistics.html). These are transcripts compiled by volunteers. Original images for the 1841 - 1911 censuses are only available from the pay to view site www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
• Researchers often look to what may be available before the start of the censuses as we know them, from 1841. This provides an excellent summary of what is available across the whole of Scotland and locations of archive documents or material - www.myainfolk.com/Resources_files/Scottish_Population_Listings_Pre1841.pdf

Family History and Heritage Groups

• Clydebank Local History Society - www.clydebankhistory.org/conc/
• The Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society - www.gwsfhs.org.uk/
• Milngavie Heritage Centre Group - www.milngavieheritage.org/index.html

History and General information

• Dunbartonshire GENUKI pages - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/DNB/
• Dunbartonshire familysearch.wiki pages - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Dumbarton,_Dumbartonshire,_Scotland and also https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Dunbartonshire,_Scotland
• Dunbartonshire Wikipedia pages - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbartonshire and also
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dunbartonshire
• A vision of Britain through time...Dunbartonshire - www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp;jsessionid=37E03B328C71A3905FD0B0FFCDA364D3?p_id=17472
• Old County of Dunbartonshire - www.scottish-places.info/counties/countyhistory9.html
• The Scottish Archive Network Knowledge Base for the county - www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/gazetteer/county-dunbarton.htm

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Images and Photograph Archives and Collections

• National Library of Scotland - Scottish Screen Archives - Dunbartonshire - http://ssa.nls.uk/search.cfm?search_mode=Browse&sid=03.01&location=13|Dunbartonshire
• The George Washington Wilson Collection of Photographs - Main index for the Collection for Scotland, including Dunbartonshire - www.rootschat.com/links/0o7x/
• Clydebank, past and present - http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/archive/clydebank.-past-present.__o_t__t_803.html
• The Geograph Britain and Ireland project has a growing collection of photographs - www.geograph.org.uk

Maps

• Map of Scottish counties - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/index.html
• Map of parishes within the county of Dunbartonshire - www.scotlandsfamily.com/parish-map-stirling.htm
• National Library of Scotland collection - http://maps.nls.uk/towns/index.html  Main index here http://maps.nls.uk/
• Great new (modern) mapping site, 'Where's the Path?' -  http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

Miscellaneous - a number of links by place and some more general information

• More than a Memory - www.morethanamemory.org.uk/
• Shipbuilding - http://cookfmly.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cps_list/?o_xid=0022468880&o_lid=0022468880&o_xt=22468880
• Balloch - www.visit-balloch.com/
• Clydebank Waterfront Hertiage - http://www.clydewaterfrontheritage.com/clydebankintro.aspx

More general info here:

• Historical Post Office Directories - http://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office/ New release of later directories here http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Ascottishdirectories&sort=-publicdate 

Newspapers

• A guide to Scottish Newspaper Indexes by the National Library of Scotland - www.nls.uk/collections/newspapers/indexes/index.cfm
• Online historical newspapers archives. Pay to view but some general info available first from the free searches  - www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
• Other online sites for historical newspapers, 17th to 19th Century, and with some Scottish coverage include http://gale.cengage.co.uk/  Some UK libraries give access to this site to local Library members.
• Check at local reference libraries to see what newspaper archives they may hold and for what period.

Workhouses

• Workhouse Locations, Scottish Poorhouses, Dunbartonshire. There are two locations included for the Dunbartonshire

Dumbarton Combination
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Dumbarton

Kirkintilloch
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Kirkintilloch

1881 Census for Kirkintilloch Parish Workhouse
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Kirkintilloch/Kirkintilloch1881.shtml#Inmates

• A list of poor rolls, registers of poor, volumes of poor relief applications and various other records containing lists of paupers for parishes in Scotland. - www.myainfolk.com/Resources_files/Records_of_the_Scottish_Poor.pdf