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Some links for Stirlingshire resources to aid research:
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Archives
- Stirlingshire Council Libraries, Archives and Family History - www.stirling.gov.uk/services/tourism-and-visitor-attractions/local-history-and-heritage/family-history-and-genealogy
- Falkirk area archives - www.falkirk.gov.uk/services/trust/heritage/heritage.aspx
- University of Stirling. Search for 'archives' to see their extensive holdings - www.stir.ac.uk/is/
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
- Graveyards gravestones and burial grounds Callander, Trossachs - www.incallander.co.uk/trossachsgraveyard.htm
- Index of published monumental inscriptions for Stirlingshire held at the National Library of Scotland - www.nls.uk/family-history/gravestones/inscriptions/county.cfm?id=32
- Older burial grounds in and about Stirling - www.stirling-lhs.org/stirlings-burial-grounds.html
- Kilsyth Old churchyard, Memorial Inscriptions - http://members.tripod.com/~Caryl_Williams/Kilsyth-7.html
- Extensive indexes of Stirlingshire Cemeteries and older burial grounds. Photographs available to order (paid for service) - www.memento-mori.co.uk/20.pdf
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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 and 1851 censuses (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 - 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 Societies
- Central Scotland Family History Society - www.csfhs.org.uk
- Falkirk Local History Society - www.falkirklocalhistorysociety.co.uk
- Stirling Local History Society - www.stirling-lhs.org/
- Drymen and District Local History Society - www.drymen-history.org.uk/index.html
- The Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society, which covers part of Stirlingshire - www.gwsfhs.org.uk
History and General information
- Stirlingshire GENUKI pages - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/STI/
- Stirlingshire familysearch.wiki pages - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Stirlingshire,_Scotland and https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Stirlingshire
- Stirlingshire Wikipedia page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirlingshire and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Stirlingshire
- A Vision of Britain through Time - Stirlingshire - www.rootschat.com/links/0oov/
Images and Photograph Archives and Collections
- National Library of Scotland - Scottish Screen Archives –Stirlingshire - http://ssa.nls.uk/search.cfm?search_mode=Browse&sid=03.01&location=40|Stirlingshire
- The George Washington Wilson Collection of Photographs - Stirlingshire - www.rootschat.com/links/0oot/
- The Geograph Britain and Ireland project has a growing collection of photographs - www.geograph.org.uk
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Maps
When looking at maps of parishes and places in Stirlingshire over the years, it is worth noting that there have been many boundary changes over the years that may affect where you will find a parish/place in time. This link here provides a brief summary www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/gazetteer/county-stirling.htm
- County maps of Scotland - www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
- Parish maps of Stirlingshire - www.scotlandsfamily.com/parish-map-stirling.htm
- Town Map of Stirling 1858 - http://maps.nls.uk/townplans/stirling.html and and http://maps.nls.uk/os/index.html
- 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.
Genmaps Stirlingshire - 20 Maps of Stirlingshire from 1650 to 1925
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/SCO_pages/sti.htm
Mining
- Great resource for the research into Scottish mining and people - www.scottishmining.co.uk/156.html
- The Scottish Mining Museum - www.scottishminingmuseum.com
- The Coal Mining History Resource Centre - www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/maps/scotland/index.html
- Scotland's Shale Oil Industry - www.scottishshale.co.uk/index.html
Miscellaneous – a number of links by place and some more general information
- Bannockburn Community website, - Heritage and History Section -
http://www.bannockburn.co.uk/category/history - Kilsyth Collections and local studies - www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=19586
More general info:
- Post Office Directories for Scotland - 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
- Stirlingshire Libraries historical newspaper collections - www.rootschat.com/links/0oow/
- 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, Lanarkshire. There are two locations included for the Stirlingshire area, Stirling and Falkirk.
Stirling Poorhouse
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Stirling
Falkirk Poorhouse
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Falkirk
Stirlingshire Poor Relief Indexes
http://www.stirlingarchives.scot/poor-relief-indexes/
- 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