Scots Dutch Links In Europe And America 1575 1825

Despite the fact that the Bremen passenger lists were destroyed during World War II, these fourteen lists survived because they had been reprinted in the obscure weekly newspaper from Rudolstadt, Thuringia, entitled the Allgemeine Auswanderungs-Zeitung. The emigrants, who are arranged alphabetically, are identified by place of origin and sometimes by the number of persons in the passenger's family or the names of traveling companions.

By 1675 some Scots scholars, merchants, and Covenanters (Calvinists) were gravitating to Holland, Zealand, and Flanders, but the majority were soldiers fighting for the United Provinces for independence from the Spanish Hapsburgs and later France. Some of these Scots or their descendants came with the Dutch immigrants to America.

By 1675 some Scots scholars, merchants, and Covenanters (Calvinists) were gravitating to Holland, Zealand, and Flanders, but the majority were soldiers fighting for the United Provinces for independence from the Spanish Hapsburgs and later France. Some of these Scots or their descendants came with the Dutch immigrants to America.

From search engines and databases to DNA platforms, discover how to easily learn more about your Scottish ancestry online with this helpful guide. Scotland is a land with a proud and centuries long history that far predates its membership of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Today in the 21st century it is also a land that has done much to make its historical records accessible, to help those with Caledonian ancestry trace their roots back to earlier times and a world long past. In Tracing Scottish Family History on the Internet, Chris Paton expertly guides the family historian through the many Scottish records offerings available, but also cautions the reader that not every record is online, providing detailed advice on how to use web based finding aids to locate further material across the country and beyond. He also examines social networking and the many DNA platforms that are currently further revolutionizing online Scottish research. From the Scottish Government websites offering access to our most important national records, to the holdings of local archives, libraries, family history societies, and online vendors, Chris Paton takes the reader across Scotland, from the Highlands and Islands, through the Central Belt and the Lowlands, and across the diaspora, to explore the various flavors of Scottishness that have bound us together as a nation for so long.

"This book identifies some of the Scots who settled in France and its colonies in the Americas between 1550 and 1850. It also contains references to a number of Frenchmen found in contemporary Scotland." -- author [v].

Drawing upon research conducted in both Scotland and the United States in manuscript and in published sources, David Dobson has here amassed all the genealogical data that we know of concerning members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the origins of Scottish Quakers living in East New Jersey in the 1680s. While there is great deal of variation in the descriptions of the roughly 500 Scottish Quakers listed in the volume, the entries typically give the individual's name, date or place of birth, and occupation, and sometimes the name of a spouse or date of marriage, name of parents, place and reason for imprisonment in Scotland, place of indenture, date of death, and the source of the information.

Seven volumes of lists of Scottish immigrants to North America between 1625 and 1825.