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Scotland / Water damaging some BMD records at National Records of Scotland
« on: Tuesday 30 July 19 16:59 BST (UK)  »
Bad news breaking today. Water coming in through one of the domes at New Register House damaged some records last week. The details are still sparse. For the most worrying report see The Scotsman:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/leaking-dome-at-national-records-of-scotland-causes-massive-damage-to-precious-historical-documents-1-4973084

The BBC website carries a less sensational report:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-49164095

It's likely the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Some records have been damaged, and it's probable this should have been avoidable. Hopefully it will not happen again. Knowing that they have been scanned helps, but the thought of lost original records (possibly) is soul crushing.

This is New Register House which is the home of the Registrar General of Scotland, and holds post-1855 BMD certificates, census returns and pre-1855 Church of Scotland parish registers.

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Berwickshire / Berwickshire Place Names Project at University of Glasgow
« on: Thursday 11 May 17 09:43 BST (UK)  »
I just learned about "Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland”, an academic project hosted at the University of Glasgow. This is researching place names in Berwickshire specifically. The project runs between 2016 and 2018, and a number of academic outputs are planned.

See their website for full details, and news of the project’s progress:

http://berwickshire-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/

Viv

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Berwickshire / Starting WW1 project for Coldingham
« on: Tuesday 25 February 14 00:22 GMT (UK)  »
I've just launched two new projects for my Coldingham and Melrose one-place studies, to research the WW1 soldiers from these parishes, not just those who died and are commemorated on the war memorials (and have been researched before), but also those, like my Melrose great-granddad, who survived.

To read more about my plans see my blog post at

http://coldinghamoneplacestudy.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/starting-a-ww1-project-for-coldingham/

Both projects have been registered with the Britain Remembers website recording World War One projects, but they're not live on the map yet.

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/britain-remembers

Viv

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Roxburghshire / Starting WW1 project for Melrose
« on: Tuesday 25 February 14 00:22 GMT (UK)  »
I've just launched two new projects for my Coldingham and Melrose one-place studies, to research the WW1 soldiers from these parishes, not just those who died and are commemorated on the war memorials (and have been researched before), but also those, like my Melrose great-granddad, who survived.

To read more about my plans see my blog post at

http://melroseoneplacesstudy.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/starting-a-ww1-project-for-melrose/

Both projects have been registered with the Britain Remembers website recording World War One projects, but they're not live on the map yet.

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/britain-remembers

Viv

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Roxburghshire / Person index (about 9000 names) to Melrose court cases, 1657-1676
« on: Wednesday 27 November 13 14:21 GMT (UK)  »
I recently put online a new detailed index to court records in the Melrose area in the late 17th century. It turned out to be so massive that I had to split the web version of the index into three parts to give web pages that didn't take forever to load!

I've blogged about the index, giving more information about it, and the underlying records.

It's possible to use the references in the index to look up the full case details in digitised versions of the court records. For more on this see my index web pages (available via blog link above).

This is part of my wider Melrose one-place study that focuses on pre-1820. To read more about that see here.

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Roxburghshire / Cavers one-name study
« on: Monday 24 September 12 16:07 BST (UK)  »
I've been doing a one-name study of Cavers, researching people bearing this surname, for well over a decade now. I started gathering information for it in the 1980s, but in the late 1990s I put it on a formal footing, registering the study with the Guild of One-Name Studies. The surname originates in Cavers parish, Roxburghshire, and I'm a Cavers descendant.

For more information about the one-name study see

http://www.vivdunstan.co.uk/cavers.html

and

http://www.one-name.org/profiles/cavers.html

The Cavers one-name study now has a regularly updated blog at

https://caversonenamestudy.wordpress.com/

sharing Cavers stories and genealogies, one blog post at a time.

The one-name study continues to gather references to Cavers people from all over the world, with a particular interest in the pre-1900 period. As a result it has been possible to piece together lots of family trees, and share these with modern descendants, and put cousins in touch with each other.

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Roxburghshire / Melrose one-place study
« on: Monday 24 September 12 16:00 BST (UK)  »
I am running a Melrose one-place study, with a particular interest in the pre-1820 period. For a full description of the study, and the resources available so far, see

http://www.vivdunstan.co.uk/melrose-ops.html

This one-place study research comes out of my genealogy research. I have strong family connections with Melrose from the late 20th century researched solidly back to the early 1600s.

I've done extensive research on the 17th century population of Melrose, before the parish registers are much use at all. I recently put online my notes from the 1694 Melrose parish hearth tax records. To read more about these see

https://melroseoneplacesstudy.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/studying-melrose-hearth-tax-records-for-1694/

and to see the full notes from the hearth tax look at

http://www.vivdunstan.co.uk/melrose/hearthtax.html

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Berwickshire / Coldingham one-place study
« on: Monday 24 September 12 15:57 BST (UK)  »
I am running a Coldingham one-place study, with a particular interest in the pre-1820 period. For a full description of the study, and the resources available so far, see

http://www.vivdunstan.co.uk/coldingham-ops.html

This one-place study research comes out of my genealogy research. I have strong family connections with Coldingham before 1820, going back hundreds of years.

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