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A great place to search for ones Scottish ancestors is the St Andrews University site, “Records of the Parliaments of Scotland”, apart from searching for your ancestors it is a fascinating insight into local and national history, you can find information regarding people’s occupations in the 18th century, it also possess a variety of quality links to the people of Scotland’s history, not just the landed gentry, you may well come across every day matters like neighbours arguing about who stole bread or the theft of horses, you can also find information regarding the murders that took place and who committed them, but beware, one can get side-tracked when searching their ancestors on this site and end lost in past, such a site is a must for any one interested in their ancestors and Scottish History.
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That is a great site - and useful for having the records in both original and modern versions.

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