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Searching
for Scots
Immigration
Records: Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600s–1800s
(CD 268)
Reviewed by Marthe Arends
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Every genealogist is familiar with the frustration and woes connected
with researching immigrant ancestors — it's difficult to
find passenger list and naturalization records, to know where
to search for court records, to unearth indenture records, to
track down oaths of allegiance, to search land records, or to
find information in newspapers that pertains to your immigrant
ancestor, and yet all of these sources (and more!) were used by
David Dobson in his volumes concerning Scottish immigrants to
the U.S., Canada, and the West Indies.
This CD contains information for approximately 70,000 immigrants,
detailed in 16 volumes by David Dobson. You'll find indexed images
from the following volumes:
- Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations,
1650-1775
- Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830
- Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825,
Volumes I-VII
- The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783
- The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, Supplement,
1607-1707
- The Original Scots Colonists, Caribbean Supplement, 1611-1707
- Scots in the USA and Canada
- Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857
- Scots on the Chesapeake
- Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America
The sources Mr. Dobson used in gathering the information contained
in the volumes is amazing — the following is a partial list
of the sources he consulted:
- ship passenger lists
- government serial publications
- periodical articles
- family histories
- contemporary newspapers
- Scottish Record Office documents
- Services of Heirs
- Register of Testaments of the Commissariat of Edinburgh
- Register of Deeds (which recorded any document of import,
not just deeds)
- printed volumes
- manuscripts
- church records
- burgess rolls
- probate records
- state records
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Also amazing is the amount of information
found on the CD. Below is a brief list of the sort of information
you may find (note, however, that not all information is available
for every individual or volume):
- individual's name
- date of birth
- place of birth
- date of death
- place of death
- occupation
- residence
- parents' names
- spouse and children's name
- emigration date
- emigration status (voluntary or forced transportation)
- port of embarkation
- destination
- ship name
- arrival date and place
- place of settlement
- place of education
Examples of information found within this
resource:
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McAldridge Gilbert
38. With children John 7, Alexander 5, Peter
3 and John 1. Emigrated from Oban, Argyllshire to Prince Edward
Island on the Spencer of Newcastle, master F. Brown on 22 September
1806. (PAPEI) [From Scottish Settlers, 1625-1825, Vol.
II, Surnames, M-N]
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Buchan, Alexander, born 1747, son of ...Buchan
and Margaret Ramsay in Glasgow, died in Grenada 5.5.1795 [From
Scots in the West Indies, 1707-1857,
Surnames, A-B]
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Sinclair Mary
70. Born in Scotland. Nancy 62. Born
in Scotland. Christian 25. Born in Robeson County, NC.
Peter 22. Born in Robeson County, NC. Duncan 21. Born
in Robeson County, NC. [From Scots in the Carolinas,
1680-1830, Surnames, S-T]
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Allan McWhiddie
Covenanter in Argyll's rebellion.
Prisoner in the Laigh Parliament House, Edinburgh. Banished
to the Plantations 31 July 1685. Transported from Leith
to Jamaica by John Ewing August 1685. [From Scots Banished
to America, 1650-1775,
Surnames, N-M]
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This is a fabulous resource, one well
worth the investment considering the CD provides access
to sixteen excellent sources of information for Scottish
immigrants to the U.S., Canada, and parts of the Caribbean.
If you are facing a brick wall with a Scottish immigrant,
check out this new release.
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Marthe Arends has
been involved in genealogy for 18 years. She has lectured on computers and genealogy
to many groups, has been the SysOp of a Fidonet genealogy BBS, has written articles
for a variety of genealogy publications, and currently writes fiction. Marthe has also written Genealogy
Software Guide and Genealogy
on CD-ROM, both published by the Genealogical
Publishing Company.
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