Scotland

Aberdeenshire	Angus/Forfarshire	Argyllshire	Ayrshire
Banffshire	Berwickshire	Buteshire	Caithness
Clackmannanshire	Cromartyshire	Dumfriesshire	Dunbartonshire
East Lothian/Haddingtonshire	Edinburgh	Fife	Glasgow
Inverness-shire	Kinross-shire	Kirkcudbrightshire	Lanarkshire
Morayshire	Nairnshire	Orkney	Peebles-shire
Perthshire	Renfrewshire	Ross-shire	Roxburghshire
Selkirkshire	Shetland	Stirlingshire	Sutherland
West Lothian/Linlithgowshire	Western Isles	Wigtownshire

General Scotland Links

The counties inwith Scotland have changed over the course of time, the three major
political acts which changed the local government administration of the counties were

Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994

A description of the changes and clickable maps of the pre 1890 and 1890-1975 counties
can be found at Traditional Counties Of Scotland

Portal and Directory Sites

These sites give literally hundreds of links to everything Scottish

• Scotlands Family Genealogy Portal
  • Rootsweb Mailing Lists
    • Rampant Scotland Directory
      • North Highland Archives
        • Ness Historical Society

Registration Districts Information

• Post 1855 Districts and Parish List; PDF Format

Maps and Historical Descriptions

• History of the subdivisions of Scotland
  • Scotland Maps, Regions and Places
    • Scotland Gazetteer
      

Images, people and places

• Views of Old Scotland
  • Old Photos of Scotland
    • Undiscovered Scotland

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History of Scotland

• Scottish History
  • Scottish History Online
    • Scotland History
      • Scotland Gazetteer; Timeline and History
        • National Library of Scotland
          • The Highland clearances

Scottish Genealogy Sites

• Scotlands Family Tree, the friendly forum
  • Ancestral Scotland
    • Scotland Genealogy a free resource
      • Scots Origins
        • ScotsFind Scottish Genealogy
          • TalkingScot
            • Tom Paterson's Scottish Roots

Parish and Census Records

• Freecen Census Project
  • Scottish Census Records

Clans and Surnames

• Scots Clans
  • Clans, Lineages and Surnames Portal
    • Clan Map of Scotland

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Military Websites

• The 91st and 93rd become the Sutherland Highlanders
  • Kings Own Scottish Borderers
    • SCOTTISH MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Scottish Castles and Churches

• Scottish Castles Photo Library
  • Castles, Abbeys and Churches
    • Castles In Scotland; County Listings

• Scottish Churches
  • Church Links and Lists
    • Historic Churches; an A-Z

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