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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Selkirkshire => Topic started by: RootsChat on Thursday 05 June 03 13:06 BST (UK)
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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-Selkirk.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
Burials and Monumental Inscriptions
A wide selection of Monumental Inscription Booklets (MIs), in many case including digital images, available to purchase directly from a number of sources, such as:
- The Borders Family History Society - www.bordersfhs.org.uk
- The Selkirk Antiquarian Society - www.selkirkshireantiquariansociety.co.uk
See also:
- The GENUKI pages for Selkirkshire are also worth looking at for cemetery information, either by the county or individual parish - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/SEL/
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Census
- FreeCen https://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl has now excellent coverage of the earlier censuses, 100% coverage of the 1841 right through to the 1871 censuses for Selkirkshire (as at July 2012 - 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 - Maxwell Ancestry offer free access to the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses. Check with the site for coverage - www.maxwellancestry.com/census/default.htm
- 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
- Census of Selkirk, 1817 - www.cangenealogy.com/armstrong/selkirk1817.htm
Family History Groups and Societies
- Borders Family History Society - www.bordersfhs.org.uk/Index.asp
- The Selkirk Antiquarian Society - www.selkirkshireantiquariansociety.co.uk/
History and General information
- Selkirkshire GENUKI pages - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/SEL/
- Selkirkshire familysearch.wiki pages - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Selkirkshire,_Scotland and also https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Selkirkshire
- Selkirkshire Wikipedia page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkirkshire and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Selkirkshire
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=37|Selkirkshire
- The George Washington Wilson Collection of Photographs - Selkirkshire - www.rootschat.com/links/0p57/ 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/72157629247065447/
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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 - Five Maps from 1791 to 1896 covering Serlkirkshire http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/SCO_pages/sel.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
- Galashiels - www.galashiels.bordernet.co.uk/ also, http://galashielshistory.com/
- Selkirk also has a number of sites available to view online such as - www.selkirkonline.org/ - www.selkirk.bordernet.co.uk/history/index.html also, http://auldselkirk.awardspace.co.uk/index.htm
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/pubselkirkshire.htm
- http://www.sgtranscriptions.co.uk/2.html
- RC topic, 'Is Galashiels in Selkirkshire or in Roxburghshire ?' - www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,160521.0.html (also check RC resources page for Roxburghshire).
Newspapers
- A guide to the County's newspapers - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/SEL/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 just the one site in Galashiels. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Galashiels
- 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