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“Will You Send Back A Letter From America?”

Posted on: 28 July 2022 by Diana Burns | Regions: Edinburgh, Orkney | Surnames: Barclay, Bishop, Cook, Copland, Lorimer, Mackay, Niven | Tags: Photos

A recent Spring Clean in the Research Centre revealed an envelope of photos of the Copland family from Orkney, sent to the Society in 2009 from Christine in Virginia, USA

Census returns for Orphir, 1821

Author: ORKNEY FHS | Type: Book | Publisher: Kirkwall, Orkney FHS, 200? | Shelf Location: S/OKI/ORK | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: censuses

Census returns for Sandwick, 1821

Author: ORKNEY FHS | Type: Book | Publisher: Kirkwall, Orkney FHS, 200? | Shelf Location: S/OKI/ORK | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: censuses

Census returns for South Ronaldsay and Burray, 1821

Author: ORKNEY FHS | Type: Book | Publisher: Kirkwall, Orkney FHS, 200? | Shelf Location: S/OKI/ORK | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: censuses

Census returns for South Ronaldsay and Burray, 1841

Author: ORKNEY FHS | Type: Book | Publisher: Kirkwall, Orkney FHS, 200? | Shelf Location: S/OKI/ORK | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: censuses 1841

Daniel Frederick McNeill

Record Type: Other Records | Data Set: Boer War

George Robertson

Record Type: Deaths and Burials | Data Set: Glasgow Herald Deaths 1854

Kirkyards of Stromness and Graemsay

Author: STROMNESS PARISH CHURCH | Type: Book | Publisher: Kirkwall , Stromness Parish Church , 1999 . | Shelf Location: S/OKI/STR | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: MIs

Last dawn: HMS Royal Oak tragedy at Scapa Flow

Author: TURNER, David | Type: Book | Publisher: Glendaruel, Argyle Publishing, 2009. | Shelf Location: S/-/TURS | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: battleships, marine disasters, Scapa Flow

Matheson

Record Type: Births and Baptisms | Data Set: Glasgow Herald Births 1854

Museums for Family Historians – Maritime & Fisheries

Posted on: 11 November 2021 by Diana Burns | Regions: Aberdeen, Anstruther, Dumbarton, Edinburgh, Fraserburgh, Glasgow, Irvine, Lybster, North Berwick, Orkney, Shetland, Tiree

Museums for Family Historians – Military (General)

Posted on: 11 November 2021 by Diana Burns | Regions: Culloden, Eastriggs, Edinburgh, Oban, Orkney, Shetland, Troywood | Tags: Jacobites, peace, war

Museums for Family Historians – Rural Life

Posted on: 16 November 2021 by Diana Burns | Regions: Alford, Brodick, Caithness, Dumfries, East Kilbride, Ellon, Inveraray, Mintlaw, Newtonmore, Orkney, Skye | Tags: cattle, croft, farm, fermtoun, sheep

Museums for Family Historians – Transport & Communications

Posted on: 17 November 2021 by Diana Burns | Regions: Alford, Aviemore, Bo'ness, Dumfries, Dunfermline, East Fortune, Glasgow, Glenfinnan, Insch, Inverness, Kirkintilloch, linli, Monkton, Montrose, Myreton, Patna, Peterhead, Prestwick | Surnames: Beeching | Tags: aviation, canals, railways

New history of Orkney, 2nd ed.

Author: THOMSON, William P L | Type: Book | Publisher: Edinburgh, Mercat Press, 2001. | Shelf Location: S/OKI/THO | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: history

Orkney family names

Author: LAMB, Gregor | Type: Book | Publisher: Kirkwall, Bellavista Publications, 2003. | Shelf Location: S/OKI/LAM | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: surnames

Orkney poll taxes of the 1690s

Author: IRVINE, James M | Type: Book | Publisher: Ashtead Surrey, James M Irvine, 2003 | Shelf Location: S/OKI/IRV | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: tax lists

Place-names of Birsay

Author: MARWICK, Hugh | Type: Book | Publisher: Aberdeen University Press, 1970. | Shelf Location: S/OKI/MAR | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: place names

Press gang in Orkney and Shetland

Author: ROBERTSON, J D M | Type: Book | Publisher: Kirkwall' Kirkwall Press, 2011. | Shelf Location: S/OKI/ROB | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: law enforcers, mariners

Susan Herriet Wilson

Record Type: Deaths and Burials | Data Set: Glasgow Herald Deaths 1854

Trace your Orkney ancestors

Author: IRVINE, James M | Type: Book | Publisher: Ashtead Surrey, James M Irvine, 2004. | Shelf Location: S/OKI/IRV | Regions: Britain & Ireland, Orkney, Scotland | Tags: research methods

William Maitland and Mary Goar 1841

Marriage record submitted by a Member