Immigration Records: Scottish Immigrants to North America 1600s-1800s  CD268

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This Family Archive contains record of immigration for approximately 70,000 Scottish immigrants to the United States and Canada. Extracted from a great variety of sources both in the United States and Scotland, the information collected here would otherwise be difficult to access. Records were compiled from a great variety of private and public sources including passenger lists, newspapers, church records, land deeds, records of indenture, and oaths of allegiance.

Materials on this Family Archive originally spanned sixteen volumes authored by Scottish emigration authority David Dobson and published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. The author of more than twenty books, Mr. Dobson specializes in migration patterns and the historical background of the Scottish people's emigration. Among the sixteen comprehensive volumes you'll find The Original Scots Colonists and a series of supplements to that work. By itself, that work identifies virtually all of the Scottish settlers to America in the 1600s. The other volumes collected here are of equal quality and value.

This Family Archive was produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company.

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. Included on the CD are 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

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 on this CD:
 

This is a fabulous CD, 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 CD.

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Immigration Records: Scottish Immigrants to North America 1600s-1800s CD268 is £24.95.