Hi all. I am re-sending the message below as it appears not to have made it to the list on the first sending. Regards, Suzanne ----- Original Message ----- From: Suzanne Walker To: BP2000 Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:42 AM Subject: Scottish Beattie resources Hello, all. I recently joined the list. I am researching a number of the Beattie families of Glenbucket and Strathdon parishes in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. If anyone has links to the area I have posted a project tracing the Beattie families of Glenbucket here http://www.geocities.com/swalker7736/beattie.htm, and have a variety of Strathdon info posted through the main page: http://www.geocities.com/swalker7736/. I'd love to hear from you if you have a connection with the area. In browsing through the list archives, I saw a couple of questions about Scottish resources, and references to scotlandspeople but not links to some of my favorite links for (mostly free) data. I've thrown a little list together below in case they might help someone out. Regards, Suzanne Walker Lineage 025 ------------------------------------------ Some helpful sites for Scottish research: Census - FreeCen is in the process of transcribing and posting census records. Progress varies by county, but 1841 is largely complete. 1851/1861 are sporadically complete. search: http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl status: http://freecen.rootsweb.com/statistics.html 1881 - I have a copy of the LDS CDs for the scottish 1881 census. I'd be willing to do lookups if people need them. Scotlandspeople - http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Official government site. Offers searches and images at a nominal fee. Information includes: » Births 1855-1906 » Marriages 1855-1931 » Deaths 1855-1956 » Births & Baptisms 1553-1854 » Banns & Marriages 1553-1854 » Census 1841-1901 » Wills & Testaments Search 1513-1901 (search is free with registration) Other useful sites http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/ http://www.nas.gov.uk/ http://www.nas.gov.uk/catalogues/default.asp http://www.cwgc.org/ Aberdeenshire-specific http://www.abdnet.co.uk/mi-index/ http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyAberdeen.htm (note, can edit link to get batch numbers for other counties) Moray-specific http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp