There is a downloadable parish locator for the whole UK at http://www.dmbennett.freeserve.co.uk The Scottish Association of Family History Societies publish a book "The Parishes, Registers & Registrars of Scotland" at about GBP4, which has a lot of useful parish information, including maps. Unfortunately it does not go down to the kind of scale you need to see which parish Fort William lies in, which seems to be at the junction of Kilmonivaig(99), Kilmalie(520), Corran of Ardgour and Ballachulish(506) parishes.My guess would be Kilmonivaig, the only one of the three that is in Inverness-shire. If you want the history of the boundary changes of a particular parish you should consult the Third Statistical Account of Scotland. This was published in the early 1960's in about 20 volumes, one for each county, or couple of counties. There is a chapter on each parish. For the future, the Scottish Archive Network is due to come on-line on St. Andrews Day, 30 November. It will have masses of information, drawn from nearly fifty archives in Scotland. If you want to check on how the project team is progressing (this is a GBP 4 million project), try http://www.scan.org.uk/News_Roundup This is a weekly magazine which reports progress, and has all the backnumbers to the beginning of the project about a year and a half ago. Regards, Iain McKenzie ---------- > From: Nancy Cameron Armstrong <nca-1@home.com> > To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SCT-INV-L] Parish names and numbers > Date: 08 September 2000 05:09 > > Dear friends, > After spending nearly an hour with at least four different books, as > many maps, and a couple of microfiche ... I GAVE UP. Please, will > someone in the know, help me with the names and numbers for the Parish > (or Parishes) that include Fort William and Letterfinley (Letterfinlay, > Letter Findley, etc. as it seems to have several different names and > spellings.) > > Are both of them in Kilmonivaig and is that Parish 99, as I was led to > believe by last book I consulted? Or ... > > What about the book that said that Fort William was part of Kilmalie > Parish and the Parish numbers were 98B and 98B1? Or ... yet another > book that said that Parish 98 was Inverness?! None of these books > limited the times the names or numbers applied. > > Help! Would like to order some fiche or film, but not until I know more. > > Thanks, > Nan CA >