SCOTLAND CLANS : BUY A SQUARE FOOT - HAVE SOME FUN WITH YOUR NEW LORD OR LADY TITLE - VISIT THE PRESERVE! VERY COOL!

I found this web site, which is commercial - selling plots of land in Scotland ie "Become a Lord or Lady Now" ! I must say that the preservation of clan history, maps, and so on here is impressive, so OK, a link to them and some hits for them are in order.... HIGHLAND TITLES COM  You can buy a  square foot plot of land in Kilnaish and see your plot of Google Maps... No, they have not solicited me or paid me for an ad.

Excerpt:  Clearly, our small family business is in no position to bestow honours in the way that the reigning Monarch can do, but our “Laird/Lord/Lady of the Glen” titles are far from meaningless. Gifts are highly personal in nature. No one person is in a position to say whether a gift is with or without meaning. To do so would constitute a breathtaking feat of arrogance.

• For some of our customers, our gift is fun. That fun has meaning.
• For others, it’s romantic. That has meaning.
• For many, it’s a way of strengthening their ties with Scotland. That has meaning.
• We can say without any doubt that our Lairds, Lords and Ladies have helped us create a real feeling of community amongst our customers.
• Tens of thousands of our customers have visited their plots and met with our team on the land. They have seen the huge amount of work we have put into creating one of the most popular nature reserves in the country, including an official Guinness World Record for World’s Biggest Bug Hotel!

Highland Titles now manages more than 800 acres in the beautiful highlands of Scotland, and the nature reserve at Duror, near Glencoe, is one of the most popular nature reserves in Scotland.

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OK FREE TO USE MAPS are available on this site.

 

HIGHLAND TITLES - SCOTTISH CLANS AND FAMILIES

Some good information and an opportunity to see the tartan.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM : AN IMPORTANT AND EXPANSIVE ARCHIVE BUT A BIT DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE

NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNITED KINGDOM start page

OK I find this particular on-line catalog a bit difficult. The United States National Archives also was and in recent times was reworked to make it a tad bit easier.

So the first search I used was the word GENEALOGY. Here's where we go:

NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNITED KINGDOM WORD SEARCH GENEALOGY RESULTS

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Though some of the listings that come up still are not quite what we are looking for, we're getting there. I'm going to excerpt from the listings involving Catholics and why this is important to genealogy research:

Excerpt: 1 WHY USE THIS GUIDE?

Until 1534, England was a Catholic country. Then, after years of upheaval, the 1559 Act of Supremacy made the Protestant Church of England the established church. Following this act there was a significant increase in the number of state records created documenting Catholics’ status and activities, subject as they were to new laws, taxes and a wave of persecution. The primary focus of this guide is on those records, especially from the 16th and 17th centuries, and how to find them at The National Archives. They include:

records of penalties and punishments

details of arrests

letters from private citizens and spies sent to the authorities

reports on Catholics sent by ecclesiastical and civil authorities

baptism, marriage and burial registers

By the 18th century Catholics were no longer persecuted, but were still effectively barred from entering the professions, holding civil or military office, or inheriting land. Formal emancipation finally came in 1829 and state records relating to Catholics exists in smaller numbers from this date onwards.

Like all churches, Catholic churches kept their own records, though very few of these, in common with most local or parish church records, have found their way into The National Archives.

*** That's my italics, emphasizing that records for Catholics will still be found by finding the dioceses ...

I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET INTO THIS CATALOG IF YOU ARE RESEARCHING ROOTS OF YOUR AMERICAN, CANADIAN, AUSTRALIAN, IRISH, WELSH, or SCOTTISH ANCESTORS!

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NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND

A little commentary first: IMMIGRATION means people coming INTO a country, EMIGRATION means people going OUT of a country. So records are kept by the country the people are coming into when it's IMMIGRATION and records are kept by the country the people are leaving when it's EMIGRATION records.

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The soldiers and airmen's wills is interesting to me. I'm not sure I've heard of such a collection before. Excerpt: The soldiers' wills have been made available online as part of the commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. The poignant documents include the last wishes of 26,000 ordinary Scottish soldiers. Most of them were killed in action, died of wounds or went missing on the Western Front. A smaller number served at Gallipoli, Salonika or in Mesopotamia.

Almost all the wills were written in their pay books by soldiers below the rank of officer, who served in the renowned Scottish infantry and cavalry regiments, as well as in many other British regiments, and all the army corps that were on active service.

In addition to the wills from the Great War, there are about 4,750 wills of Scots soldiers serving in all theatres during the Second World War, including some women auxiliaries, and several hundred from the Boer War and Korean War, and other conflicts between 1857 and 1965.

Used to be called National Archives of Scotland. NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND

NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND FAMILY HISTORY START PAGE notes

Birth Death and Marriage Civil Records includingStatutory registers of births, deaths and marriages from 1855

Old Parish Registers (1553 to 1854)

Other Presbyterian church records (1761 to 1854)

Census records (1841 to 1911)

Highland and Island Emigration Society records (on our ScotlandsPeople website)
Valuation roll indexes (1855, 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935 and 1940)

Wills and Testaments (1513 to 1925)

Soldiers' and Airmens' Wills (1857 to 1965)

Military Service Appeal Tribunals (1916-1918)

We also provide access to: Catholic Parish Registers (from 1703) from the Scottish Catholic Archives

Coat of Arms (from 1672) from the Court of the Lord Lyon

SCIENCE BRINGS YOU DATA ON MEDIEVAL WANDERERS ; PEOPLE FROM A 6th CENTURY SCOTLAND BURIAL

I love this!  UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN - THE MEDIEVAL WANDERER

From the 6th century, the mystery of skeletal remains of nine adults and five infants found in what would have once been the latrine of a Roman bath, has been a scientific challenge and marvel!  Using biochemical analysis of bone, scientists have learned that the early diets of some of them indicate they were living far from where they grew up when they died.  A woman and infant were murdered for sure.  This article also has the image of what he would have looked like, based on scientific methods of facial reconstruction.

DONALD YATES on WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH

"Scotland was the only country in Europe that did not persecute Jews.

WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH by DONALD YATES and ELIZABETH CALDWELL HIRSCHMAN

WHEN SCOTLAND WAS JEWISH

by Donald Yates and Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman

DNA Evidence, Archeology, Analysis of Migrations, and Public and Family Records Show Twelfth Century Semitic Roots.

McFarland and Company Publishers -Jefferson, North Carolina and London

Fascinating! The DNA evidence may be the clincher to a controversial theory that the authors intend to prove to their best ability, that common assumptions about Scotland and the Scottish are erroneous, and that many people of Jewish ancestry came to prominence, developing the culture of the country. Bagpipes were a Middle Eastern instrument first, for instance.

The population of developing Scotland was heavily influenced by an influx of Sephardic Jews from the 12th century on, and many of the famous CLANS and SEPTS have this root heritage.

Covered here are Campbell, Forbes, Fraser, and several other surnames thought commonly to be genetically Scottish. The evidence begins with portraits from the National Gallery showing the portraits of early famous aristocrats sporting head-wear and faces that are considered to be Semitic. It moves onto the DNA testing of representatives of these surnames from around the world.

Did Presbyterianism have had its roots in Proto-Jewish communities that practiced a Torah aware version of Christianity as a kind of cover for Judaism? These researchers think so. Yates and Hirschman also dip in to the whole Knights Templar, Freemasons, and Cabala controversy which of late seems to also wind up in Scotland.

These researchers started out a few years ago with their pioneering research into the Melungeons of the South-eastern United States, a heritage they both share, and also believe to have begun in Iberian - Mediterranean Sephardic-Jewish and Arabian populations.

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