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Some links to Kirkcudbrightshire resources to aid research:
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Archives
- Local Studies, Archives and Family History - www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2297
- See also - www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/gazetteer/county-kirkcudbright.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 additional links:
- Wedding Notices Published in Local Newspapers - www.kirkcudbright.co/weddingNotices.asp
- Deaths Recorded in Kirkcudbright Old Parish Registers (1826-53) - www.old-kirkcudbright.net/genealogy/oprDeaths/index.asp
Burials and Monumental Inscriptions
- MIs for the inscriptions of some parishes - www.kirkyards.co.uk/index.asp
- General photographs of churchyards and graveyards - http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dfsgal/index.htm
- Miscellaneous Dumfries & Galloway graveyard inscriptions - MIs for a large number of cemeteries - http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~scottish/D-GInscriptions.html
- A wide selection of Monumental Inscription Booklets (MIs) available to purchase directly from the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society - www.dgfhs.org.uk/publications.asp
- Death Notices Published in Local Newspapers - www.kirkcudbright.co/deathNotices.asp
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Census
- FreeCen http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ has the 1841 Census for Kirkcudbrightshire (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
- The 1851 census is also available free here www.dgcommunity.net/historicalindexes/default.aspx and www.maxwellancestry.com/census/default.htm
- 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
- Dumfries & Galloway Family History Society - www.dgfhs.org.uk/
History and General information
- Kirkcudbright GENUKI pages - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/KKD/
- Kirkcudbright familysearch.wiki pages - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Kirkcudbrightshire,_Scotland and https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Kircudbrightshire
- Kirkcudbright Wikipedia pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkcudbrightshire - A historical index of people and places - www.kirkcudbright.co/index.asp
Images and Photograph Archives and Collections
- Dumfries and Galloway : Through the Lens. Over 7,000 images - www.dgttl.co.uk/
- Postcard Views of Kirkcudbright and Surrounds - www.old-kirkcudbright.net/postcards.asp
- The Geograph Britain and Ireland project has a growing collection of photographs - www.geograph.org.uk
- National Library of Scotland - Scottish Screen Archives - http://ssa.nls.uk/search.cfm?search_mode=Browse&sid=03.01&location=25|Kirkcudbrightshire
- The George Washington Wilson Collection of Photographs - Kirkcudbrightshire - www.rootschat.com/links/0p33/ Main index for the Collection for Scotland www.rootschat.com/links/0o7x/
- A collection of photos and postcards also here - www.flickr.com/photos/maxwellancestry/collections/72157629248557599/
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Maps
- County maps of Scotland - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
- Parish map - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/KKD/parishes.html#ParishMap
- National Library of Scotland maps - http://maps.nls.uk/towns/#kirkcudbright and http://maps.nls.uk/os/index.html
- Great collection of maps here Genmaps 13 maps of Kirkudbrightshire from 1654 to 1900 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/SCO_pages/kkd.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
- Carsphairn Heritage Group - www.carsphairnheritage.org/CARSPHAIRN-HERITAGE-CENTRE.html
- Dalbeattie Town History - www.dalbeattie.com/history/index.htm
More general info here:
- Scottish Post Office directories - www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office Directory for 1921-22 can be seen here www.old-kirkcudbright.net/genealogy/postal_g.asp
- The Shipping Registers of Kirkcudbright (1824 to 1841) - www.dgcommunity.net/historicalindexes/shipping.aspx
- Kirkcudbrightshire Kirk Session records - www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sctkkdfc/notes.htm#section4 The Troqueer Kirk Session Minutes, 1698-1771, searchable online here www.dgcommunity.net/historicalindexes/trqkirksession.aspx
- Kirkcudbrightshire Old Parish Register data - www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sctkkdfc/notes.htm#section3
- Museums in Dumfries and Galloway - www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk/frames.html
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 - Kirkcudbrightshire. There was only one for the county,Kirkcudbright Combination Poorhouse http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Kirkcudbright/
- See also here for additional info - www.old-kirkcudbright.net/genealogy/poor.asp
- 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