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Some links to Caithness resources to aid research:
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Archives
- Caithness Archive Centre - www.highland.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/what-to-see/archives/northhighlandarchives/
- See also - www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/gazetteer/county-Caithness.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:
- Some selected surname Birth/Baptism and Marriage Indices - www.cursiter.com/pages/indices.htm
Burials and Monumental Inscriptions
- Burial Grounds of Caithness and Sutherland - www.caithness.org/atoz/cemeteries/burialgroundscaithnesssusutherland.htm
- Gravestone photos - www.oddquine.co.uk/gravestones/
- Further photos - www.graven-images.org.uk/
- See also - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/CAI/#Cemeteries and http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mwi/caithnes.txt
- There are memorial inscriptions available for several churchyards in Caithness at the following website - https://sites.google.com/site/highlandmemorialinscriptions/home/caithness
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Census
- Freecen https://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl has now excellent coverage of the Census with 100% coverage of the 1841-1891 Census for Caithness.
Check here for updates www.freecen.org.uk/statistics.html). These are transcripts compiled by volunteers. - Original images for the 1841 - 1911 Census 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
Caithness Family History Society - www.caithnessfhs.org.uk
Highland Family History Society - www.highlandfamilyhistorysociety.org
Thurso Heritage Society - wwwthursoheritage.com
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History and General information
- Caithness GENUKI pages - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/CAI/
- Caithness familysearch.wiki pages -
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Caithness-shire,_Scotland and
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Caithness
- Caithness Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caithness and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Caithness - Am Baile, The Highland Council's bilingual website. Discover the history and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands - www.ambaile.org.uk/
- A general guide - www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/areacait/index.html
Images and Photograph Archives and Collections
- Am Baile Photographs by parish - www.ambaile.org.uk/en/sub_section.jsp?SectionID=0¤tId=1652
- The Geograph Britain and Ireland project has a growing collection of photographs - www.geograph.org.uk
- National Library of Scotland - Scottish Screen Archives – Caithness - http://ssa.nls.uk/search.cfm?search_mode=Browse&sid=03.01&location=10|Caithness
- The George Washington Wilson Collection of Photographs - Inverness-shire www.rootschat.com/links/0pmp/ Main index for the Collection for Scotland www.rootschat.com/links/0o7x/
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Maps
- County maps of Scotland - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
- Parishes Map - http://maps.nls.uk/counties/index.html#caithness
- NLS maps - http://maps.nls.uk/counties/index.html
- Further maps here - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/SCO_pages/cai.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
- Site Map For Caithness.org & Highland Council Links - www.caithness.org/sitemap/index.htm
- Post Office Directories for Scotland - http://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office
- Caithness Museums & Visitor Centres - www.caithness.org/community/museums/index.htm
Newspapers
- A guide to Scottish Newspaper Indexes by the National Library of Scotland www.nls.uk/collections/newspapers/indexes/index.cfm
- New 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 - Caithness. There were two locations, located in Latheron and Thurso
Latheron Combination
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Latheron
Thurso Combination
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Thurso
- 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