If you go to Bryan Keddy's Scottish Glens page at http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bryanfkeddy/Glen1.html the introductory text is from the Old Statistical Account for Urquhart and Glenmoriston parish, Inverness-shire, and was written in about 1790. Every parish (nearly 1000 of them) was described in this kind of detail. The accounts were printed and published in about twenty volumes. There were further volumes of analysis. There is a project in progress to make all the Old Statistical Accounts available on the internet. The New Statistical Accounts (published about 1840) will also be digitised. The Third Statistical Accounts (about 1960) are still in copyright, so you will have to wait awhile for those to appear on the internet. The Statistical Accounts are often available in University libraries where the university has strong Scottish links. I have heard of copies in places as far apart as Acadia, Nova Scotia and Brisbane, Australia. All these accounts deal with Scotland at a very local level, and make fascinating reading. If you want to know what was going on at a national level, try "Eighteenth Century Scotland - New Perspectives", edited by T.M.Devine and J.R.Young, published in 1999 by Tuckwell Press, East Linton, East Lothian EH40 3DG (ISBN 1 86232 051 9) There are lots of books becoming available, but the above should keep you going. Regards, Iain McKenzie Glasgow, Scotland ---------- > From: John McLean <jsmclean@look.ca> > To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SCT-INV-L] Researching 18th Century Ancestors > Date: 15 October 2000 17:45 > > Hi Folks; > I am in the process of trying to gather information about the lives > my ancestors led in the Shires of Nairn and Inverness in the 1700s. I > know they where not land owners and suspect that they lived the lives of > most common agrarian folks of the time. Could anyone recommend a book or > other source of information that might describe their activities and > lifestyle including perhaps their homes, daily routines, etc. Any help > in this area would be appreciated. > > John McLean > Aurora, Ontario, Canada >