Daphne Kilbourn-Jacob wrote: > > Harry Maxwell wrote: > > > > Could you advise the procedure for searching any/all Scotland records > > for the Maxwell family, I'm a newbie and not at all sure of myself, > > thank you. > > Harry E. Maxwell > > Dear Harry, The Maxwells were a powerful family in Scottish history, as a political force & a fearsome Riding Clan on the Borders, etc. Check the Archives for this List and the Scotch-Irish-L at <www.rootsweb.com> as many Maxwells were forced to flee to Ulster when King James VI/I pacified the Borders in the early 1600's. You have to search year by year for the past four years. If you have any dates, places of residency and occupation, full names; post them here and on bulletin boards, where they will remain on a more permanent basis, esp. by other researchers. "Connect With Surnames" is one of these. Also, consider signing up for a free course offered on rootsweb's List pages, can't remember the name but it has 'university' as part of the URL. This will tell you where records are held, how to do land searches, probate and other court records, B/D/M's and how to obtain Certs. Try the Mormon's Family History Center (LDS-FHC) at www.familysearch.com (I think, or .org), please correct me if I've got this wrong, List members. Also, I recommend two books, "Your Scottish Ancestry, A Guide to North Americans" by Sherry Irvine and "The Steel Bonnets" by George MacDonald Fraser for the history of your very illustrious ancestors. Surname and genealogy studies are incomplete without the socio-historical context of your forebearer's living conditions and forces they contended with. Fraser will provide that piece while Irvine will give you the 'how to search' methods and records. Both in ppbk. and in print at Barnes & Noble, Borders, etc. Good Luck, Daphne Jacob