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The islands of Mull and Iona have a website m It contains census data and it might be worth pointing out that Glasgow children were boarded out of the Poorhouse (Workhouse) to families in Iona (as was the case with my ancestor). They may appear in the census as boarders. Poorhouse records are at the...

The dialect of the area is Doric and there is an excellent website here which will give you a flavour of it.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/kist/

Mitchell Library in Glasgow has a 24/7 online section where you can access old newspapers http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries ... brary.aspx

Hi, I am new to the forum. I am researching my family history in Scotland. Lanarkshire and Aberdeenshire are my two main areas, though at the moment I am almost exclusively working on the Lanarkshire side of my family tree. The surnames being Geddes and Ferguson. I am working on their story at the f...