Genealogy Tourism - A New Approach
by Cameron Taylor
Ancestral Scotland.com is a new and unique web portal which brings together both genealogy and tourism information. It makes it easier for people to continue their personal journey of discovery back to their ancestral homeland and walk in the footsteps of their ancestors.
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Sydney Scottish Week 2002
By Roddy Martine
As temperatures rose to 30 C, and the November drought in New South Wales continued without mercy, the Christmas decorations were out in force in Sydney's city centre. Also out in force were the Australian Scots taking part in Sydney Scottish Week, now into its 21st year. With a programme which on some days featured more than one diversion, it needed stamina to participate, especially in all that heat.
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Scotswomen of Early Times
Chapter one of an extract from the publication 'A Group of Scottish Women' by Harry Graham, held at the Odom Library.
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Faces of Scotland -
The Reference Section at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
By Imogen Gibbon
With the establishment of the National Portrait Gallery in London in 1856, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 1882 and the National Portrait Gallery, Dublin in 1884 the ideology of the nineteenth century historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle had been realised.
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John Napier
By Duncan A. Bruce
John Napier, Eighth Laird of Merchiston, was born at Merchiston Castle, the son of Archibald Napier and Janet Bothwell. He was one of the world's greatest scientists, as well as one of the earliest. Napier invented logarithms and decimal fractions, the mathematical tools which were the foundation of all scientific calculation and progress for the next 350 years, and beyond.
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Highland Dress - An Extract from Ancient Scottish Weapons.
This is the first in a series of articles from the Odom Library in Moultrie, Georgia. The Odom Library houses a growing collection of Scottish genealogy materials plus archives for 115 Clans.
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Scottish Women of Early Times
Chapter two of an extract from the publication 'A Group of Scottish Women' by Harry Graham, held at the Odom Library.
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Mary Queen of Scots
By Duncan A. Bruce
The life of Mary Queen of Scots is Scotland’s grand tragedy. From the day of her birth, to the day of her death, her life was dramatic.
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Clans of Scotland
The next in a series of articles from the Odom Library in Moultrie, Georgia. The Odom Library houses a growing collection of Scottish genealogy materials plus archives for 115 Clans.
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Scottish Documents - Scotland's written legacy online
By Joanna A Baird
The Heritage Lottery-funded Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) project officially began in August 1999. The key aim of the project is to open up access to the contents of Scotland's archives. One of the ways we are doing this is by digitising the wills, testaments and inventories of Scots from 1500-1901 - one of the most popular series held by the National Archives of Scotland - and making the resultant 3 million colour images available via the Internet.
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Hunterston - The story of a Scots hunting dynasty and its seat.
By Russ Mullen, M.A.
The early years of the twelfth century subjected Scotland to an invasion which, while no drop of blood was spilt, was to affect the nation's development as profoundly as any hostile incursion before or since. King Alexander I and particularly his brother, David I, influenced socially and politically all their lives by the new Norman presence in England and impressed by Frankish efficiency and prowess in battle, began to invite Norman lords and their retainers to take up residence in the kingdom.
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Scottish Women of Early Times
Chapter two of an extract from the publication 'A Group of Scottish Women' by Harry Graham, held at the Odom Library. This section focuses on Jane, Countess of Sutherland.
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Clanship and Chiefs Dress and Arms
The next in a series of articles from the Odom Library in Moultrie, Georgia. The Odom Library houses a growing collection of Scottish genealogy materials plus archives for 115 Clans
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Highland Dirks - An extract from Ancient Scottish Weapons
The Highland Dirk is distinguished from all other weapons of the same kind by its long triangular blade single-edged and thick-backed; and by its peculiar handle, cylindrical, without a guard, but shouldered at the junction with the blade, the grip swelling in the middle; and the pommel circular and flat-topped; Its most characteristic feature is the carving of the handle, which is invariably in one style of knot-work, the different specimens exhibiting considerable variety of treatment.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie - The St. Peter's Connection
by Frank Shaw FSA Scot
When he was born on 20 December 1720 (the "Old Style" date),¹ his parents named him Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Xavier Maria.² He is loved by some and reviled by others. He tried to do the impossible and nearly succeeded.
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Some Characteristics of the Highlanders
Chapter three of an extract from the publication 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland', By James Grant. The publication is held at the Odom Library in Moultrie, Georgia.
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Scottish Feudal Baronies
Hugh Peskett, Consultant Editor: Scotland, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage
Scottish feudal barons are the lowest rank of the Scottish aristocracy, barones minores, but they are an ancient rank, for they existed before Scotland had dukes, marquesses, viscounts or baronets (bearing in mind that in pre-Union (1707) Scotland the equivalent to the English rank of Baron was a Lord of Parliament, and that it is a solecism to style such Lords as Barons).
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