Tracing Your Scottish Rural Ancestors

If you have ancestors who owned or worked on farms here are a couple of databases you may wish to check out. The information you are seeking may not be online, but you can certainly send a query to the archivist for each database.

ROYAL HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND

http://www.scottishrecordsassociation.org/summaries_004.htm 

This database holds History and Accounts for the Society as well as information pertaining to their Shows & Competitions. Additionally, they have records for:

~St Kilda

~Agricultural Statistics

and what they classify as Miscellany:

~Aberdeenshire quarries, manuscript accounts by James Blaikie; 

~Descriptions, memoirs and reports of coalfields;

~Argyll Naval fund accounts and applications;

~Scottish Agricultural Committee for Relief of the Allies letter;

~Scottish Red Cross Agriculture Fund papers  

 

SCOTLAND'S RURAL PAST

http://www.scotlandsruralpast.org.uk/ 

This database is looking to compile information about the "vanishing settlements and landscapes" that once dotted the country.