This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EgC.2ACE/10117.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Patsy Scotland is blessed with great record keeping. I used lots of sources - IGI, Old Parish Registers, Censuses (each decade from 1841 to 1901) - all available on microfilm and microfiche through the Mormon Church Family History Centers. I also joined a couple of Family History Societies, many of which produce booklets of memorial inscriptions for graveyards in their area and local histories. Now, the Internet is invaluable - www.familysearch.org - the Mormon Church site where one can search the IGI, and also find what microfilms and fiches can be ordered. www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk - where one can download pre-1855 old parish register entries, and post-1855 birth, death, marriage certificates, plus entries from 1881,1891, and 1901 censuses, for a fee - they will eventually have all the earlier censuses. www.scottishdocuments.com - where one can search the index of wills free - and download digital images of them for a fee. www.edina.ac.uk/statacc/ - the Statistical Accounts of all the Scottish parishes can be read there, giving wonderful insight into life at the end of the 1700s and the mid 1800s. www.cyndislist.com - where one can find all sorts of useful websites for genealogists. www.old-maps.co.uk - with maps from the mid 1800s where one can even zoom in close enough to see the shape of the farm buildings. And of course GOOGLE is invaluable. It is amazing what one can turn up by using that. Marie B.