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Archives
- Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre - www.heartofhawick.co.uk/heritagehub/
- See also - www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/gazetteer/county-Berwick.htm
Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Some guides here on RootsChat to help you:
- 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
See also:
- Index of transcribed death entries for Berwick, for 1855, 1868, 1872 and 1881 (see those coded BEW) - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~connochie/bdm/
Burials and Monumental Inscriptions
- A wide selection of Monumental Inscription Booklets (MIs) available to purchase directly from the Borders Family History Society - www.bordersfhs.org.uk/BFHSPublications.asp
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Census
- Maxwell Ancestry offer free access to the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses. Check with the site for coverage - www.maxwellancestry.com/census/default.htm
- FreeCEN transcriptions for Berwickshire , 1841 - 78.1%(Jan. 2018) - www.freecen.org.uk
- A partial transcription of the 1871 Census for Berwick - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~connochie/census/bewcensus1871index.html
- 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 Groups and Societies
- Borders Family History Society - www.bordersfhs.org.uk/Index.asp
- Dunse History Society - www.dunsehistorysociety.co.uk/index.shtml
The Coldstream & District Local History Society
War Memorial Project covering Ayton, Birgham, Chirnside, Coldingham, Cockburnspath, Coldstream, Duns, Earlston, Eccles, Edrom, Eyemouth, Fogo, Foulden, Gavington, Gordon, Greenlaw, Houndswood, Hume, Hutton, Ladykirk, Lauder, Leitholm, Longformacus, Oxton, Paxton, Preston, Swinton, Westruther, and Whitsome War Memorials
http://coldstream.co/organisations/recreational/history-society
History and General information
- Berwickshire GENUKI pages - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/
- Berwickshire familysearch.wiki pages - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Berwickshire,_Scotland and also https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Berwickshire
- Berwickshire Wikipedia page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwickshire and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Berwickshire
Images and Photograph Archives and Collections
- National Library of Scotland - Scottish Screen Archives - http://ssa.nls.uk/search.cfm?search_mode=Browse&sid=03.01&location=7|Berwickshire
- The George Washington Wilson Collection of Photographs - Berwickshire - www.rootschat.com/links/0p51/ Main index for the Collection for Scotland www.rootschat.com/links/0o7x/
- The Geograph Britain and Ireland project has a growing collection of photographs - www.geograph.org.uk
- A collection of photos and postcards also here - www.flickr.com/photos/maxwellancestry/collections/72157629260047285/
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Maps
- County maps of Scotland - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
- Parishes Map - www.scotlandsfamily.com/parish-map-borders.htm
- National Library of Scotland maps - National Library of Scotland maps - http://maps.nls.uk/os/index.html and http://maps.nls.uk/index.html
- Further maps here - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/SCO_pages/bew.htm
- Further collection of maps from here - www.british-history.ac.uk/map.aspx?pubid=270
- Great new (modern) mapping site, 'Where's the Path?' - Free Ordnance Survey Mapping side by side with Google Aerial Imagery. Just insert place name on the l/h side box at the top, the select a place http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm Great mapping site for those more remote places! Also covers more populated areas.
Miscellaneous – a number of links by place and some more general information
- Coldstream - http://coldstream.co/organisations/recreational/history-society
- Duns - www.duns.bordernet.co.uk/
- Lauder - www.lauder.bordernet.co.uk/history/
- Whitsome - http://homepages.ipact.nl/~robertson/whitsome%201%20place%20study/index.html
More general info here:
- Countryside and Heritage Service of Scottish Borders Council - www.scottishbordersheritage.co.uk/3
- Scottish Post Office directories - www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office
- Other sources of info for the county, include www.maxwellancestry.com/ancestry/publishing/pubberwickshire.htm
- Also, www.sgtranscriptions.co.uk/index.html - click on the link on the left for Berwickshire
- Eyemouth Museum - www.eyemouthmuseum.org/
Newspapers
- A guide to the County's newspapers - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/newspaperList.html
- A guide to Scottish Newspaper Indexes by the National Library of Scotland www.nls.uk/collections/newspapers/indexes/index.cfm
- Growing resource for the UK, pay to view. Some general info available from the general search index info - www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Workhouses
- Workhouse Locations, Scottish Poorhouses - Berwickshire. There was one site in Kelso. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Kelso
- 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. A great summary of what is actually available by parish and where to look for the records that remain - www.myainfolk.com/Resources_files/Records_of_the_Scottish_Poor.pdf