Online Sources for Scottish Genealogy Research
Christine Woodcock
Content
Welcome
1m 23s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 7s
Introduction
19m 40s
Location
6m 43s
Old Occupations
9m 41s
Other Records
8m 19s
Covenanters
14m 31s
FindMyPast
5m 34s
Announcements / prizes
6m 37s
Questions / answers
8m 2s
About this webinar
There comes a time when you have done all of the online researching you can do using the standard databases. In this talk you will learn of databases that aren't as well known but that can assist in breaking through your brick walls.
\nAbout the speaker
Christine Woodcock is a genealogy educator with an interest in Scottish research. As an immigrant herself, Christine is always interested in the stories of other immigrants and her research has led he...
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Comments (4)
This was so chock full of information! Well presented! Look forward to her next webinar!\n\nTons of good info and sources. I liked the anecdotes and stories too.\n\nTons of useful information. Thank you.\n\nToo much info in too little time. too fast--couldn't keep up. What I got was great! Most info ever on Scotland and Scottish people!\n\nTremendous resources; well organized. Thank you\n\nVery fast talker!\n\nVery good\n\nvery good for covering a lot of different websites and archives\n\nVery good round up of resources\n\nVery helpful!!\n\nVery informative\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative and interesting\n\nVery informative, and great handout! \n\nVery informative.\n\nVery interesting - I am new to Scottish genealogy, so it was a bit overwhelming. Did not realize how different the records were from the USA or England. Learned a lot today however.\n\nVery interesting conference and so many references. Greatly appreciated. Thank you very much\n\nVery interesting, thanks.\n\nVery knowledgeable and lots of interesting information. Not sure if her speaking speed was because of the technical issues at the beginning, but it was hard to keep up and get the information. Clicked through some of the slides really quickly.\n\nVery knowledgeable! But talked way too fast & stumbled over some topics.\n\nVery useful. Speedy, but useful. So many sites.\n\nWonderful information. Thank you!\n\nWonderful presentation and syllabus - am going to view again as I had to miss a portion. Thanks for all the great information.\n\nWonderful!\n\nWonderful, will have to watch again becuase I checked out the kirk session minutes you mentiond and found my ancestor straight away. Thanks for all the great tips.\n\nWorth the time, good info.\n\nWow!\n\nWow!! Lots of great information. Christine did a great job with her presentation and her handout. Covered a lot.
So many interesting details of Scottish history, people and culture. Absolutely fascinating. I hated to have the presentation end.\n\nSo much great info. Great and informative speaker.\n\nSo much great information on the standard sources but more important new places to look for detailed info\n\nSo much helpful information!!. Will keep me busy long after the pandemic is over.\n\nso much information\n\nSo much information in a short time. But all listings of online sites is appreciated.\n\nSo much information! Great description of resources, how to use them, and their strengths and limitations.\n\nSome of the website links just zipped by.\n\nsome slides went by too fast, couldn't get the web addresses.\n\nSome transitions were a bit quick, but the chat has the links that I might otherwise have missed.\n\nSoooo many great resources to study! Thank you for presenting,\n\nsuch interesting stories to check out\n\nTerrific. Amazing breadth of knowledge.\n\nThank you for an informative webinar. Each time I hear Christine Woodcock present on Scottish genealogy I learn something new!\n\nThank you for that wealth of information.\n\nThank you!\n\nThank you!\n\nThank you, very informative\n\nThanks for the references, they will be helpful.\n\nThe information was great...it is hard to make notes when someone speaks really quickly though...\n\nThe multiple websites to check for scottish anscestors was helpful and I will start with scotlandspeople. The speaker did a great job moving through all the info.\n\nThe presenter knows her stuff. She packed in a lot of information that I have not read in any books. I would love to see future webinars from her.\n\nThe presenter is terrific. She sounds excited to share what she's learned, she goes at a rapid pace but thankfully the URL's are listed on the handout! She is knowledgeable and expressive about her subject. Thank you for having her.\n\nThe presenter sure speaks very fast!!\n\nThe range of information and detail provided is very helpful and much appreciated. Thank you.\n\nThe speaker gave us so much information.!!! Thank you\n\nThis was a terrific webinar!\n\nThis was excellent. One of the most actionable genealogy webinars I've attended.\n\nThis was fabulous! I have resources now for YEARS of research. And I'd love to go on one of Christine's tours. Thank you so much for providing this opportunity to attend the webinar for free. Every minute contained a goldmine of information!
Good overview of Scottish research. \n\nGreat info\n\nGreat info. \n\nGreat information and resources!\n\nGreat information!\n\nGreat Information!\n\nGreat information! Thank you.\n\nGreat information. \n\nGreat presentation covering Scottish sources.\n\nGreat presentation with lots of actionable information!\n\nGreat presentation!\n\nGreat resources\n\ngreat resources and information\n\nGreat resources!\n\nGreat webinar but pace was way to fast for all the information given\n\nGreat webinar with all subjects well covered. born and still living in Scotland I can recommend this webinar to all.\n\nGreat Webinar, and I appreciate Christine sharing her email address as I have never been able to find any record of G G G Grandfather's drowning, so will email and see if she has any suggestions for where any record may be.. Good job, all. \n\nGreat webinar, just too long\n\nGreat, as usual. Went by too fast!! \n\nGreat. Would like to see more Scotland webinars from her.\n\nHeard of some new sources that I hadn't considered.\n\nHope she will present more webinars. Very good. \n\nI don't have any Scottish ancestors that I know of, but the speaker was fantastic. She talked about things like occupations which will be valuable for understanding my ancestors. Please bring this speaker back often!\n\nI find it so interesting to learn the historical “tidbits” that come out, making me want to learn more. Thanks!!!!\n\nI have hints of some ancestors being from Scotland. These resources are great and hope to use them as I learn more about my folks. And I am more and more interested in touring Scotland in future!!! Thank you!\n\nI was looking for older Scottish records. She offers many good sources for the records after the 1800a.\n\nI wish she could have spoken a little more slowly. It was great information, but I feel as if I have just run a marathon! \n\nIf I could give it a higher rating I would.\n\nInvaluable information and links.\n\nIt covered a time period way too late for my Scottish ancestors, but was great all the same.\n\nIt was good but unfortunately didn't focus on the parts of Scotland my ancestors come from or their occupations.\n\nJust started Scottish research and this was an amazing presentation!\n\nLots of good info\n\nLots of info but rather fast..\n\nlots of information, thanks\n\nlots of websites, great thanks. would have linked some time spent on each. \n\nLoved hearing all about Scotland \n\nloved presentation but missed some websites. \n\nman is she good, great presentation\n\nMore examples of what documents look like would have been beneficial to help us determine what they contain, especially for the pay per view sites\n\nOther than she went too fast, it was fantastic! Just wanted to look at some slides a bit longer so will have to watch replay. Grateful it is available :)\n\nPacked with useful information\n\nPlease talk a little slower. (I know you're excited about your subject)\n\nPresenter spoke soooo fast it was hard to take notes! But really interesting .....\n\nReally interesting, thank you.\n\nScreens too fast to copy down the websites. Great amount of info, though.\n\nShe covered a lot, thank you, however, speaking a bit slower would be nice. Listening was exhausting!\n\nShe is always great. Most comprehensive presentation on Scottish Resources I have experienced.\n\nSO knowledgeable!
5+ a wonderful wealth of information!!\n\nA little fast to make notes, esp of links - but excellent info Christine, thank you\n\nA wealth of information. \n\nAbsolutely fantastic!\n\nawesome\n\nBecause my most recent Scottish ancestors left Scotland for America in the 1830s or 1840s, I would have liked to have more reference to the applicable dates for many of the resources. The late 19th century and 20th century resources are less applicable for my genealogical research.\n\nBrilliant, thank you. Learned lots. \n\nChristine is a wonderful presenter, very interesting! I was already signed up for her November webinar.\n\nChristine is ALWAYS WONDERFUL. This webinar: TERRIFIC I've enjoyed her on the webinars she's done with Katherine Lake Hogan many times. She's always so interesting and helpful. \n\nChristine is an amazingly thorough presenter!! Whew!! Luckily I have a webinar membership, because I'll be watching this again. Excellent handout, excellent presentation. A winner!! \n\nChristine is great. She really knows her information.\n\nChristine is very knowledgeable and shared so many resources!! Thank you!!\n\nChristine was amazing today on her presentation. So much valuable info to research families. Excellent.\n\nChristine Woodcock provided us with an awesome amount of resources to use. Wonderful webinar. Glad to hear she is coming back in November. \n\nChristine, thank you for another detailed and informative training session. It is always a pleasure to attend your great webinars!\n\nClear, consise, awesome handout, and so much more for me to explore!\n\nEnjoy getting the websites\n\nEnjoyed the session and learned new sites and tricks to researching my Scottish family.\n\nEnlightening. Well worth watching.\n\nExcellence presentation - comprehensive, clear, succinct\n\nexcellent as always thank you\n\nExcellent content!\n\nSound was clear and so were the slides. Thank you!\n\nExcellent information! Thank you!\n\nExcellent information, thank you \n\nExcellent presentation\n\nExcellent presentation and syllabus. Thank You!\n\nExcellent resources\n\nexcellent resources and information\n\nExcellent session...I learned a lot! This is one I will need to review again as there was just so much information. Your speaker really knows her topic. I would enjoy listening to future presentations made by her on this topic. Thank you!\n\nExcellent speaker, succinct. \n\nExcellent unveiling of all the different sources to find family.\n\nExcellent variety of resources to find genealogical information.\n\nExcellent webinar\n\nExcellent! The time flew by, and the slides were full of what we can find online. Christine Woodcock is a great speaker, and she put together a great webinar. Thank you.\n\nExcellent. \n\nExcellent. Wow! Webinars like Christine's make my annual subscription to Legacy Webinars worthwhile; I can tap into her knowledge all year long!\n\nExcellent-as always! \n\nExcelllent. \n\nExtremely helpful and interesting. This webinar will be on my go to list for expanding my research on my Scottish ancestors.\n\nFABULOUS. Let's all go back to Scotland SOON.\n\nFantastic list of resources. Enjoyable and very educational webinar.\n\nFantastic presentation today by Christine Woodcock which I have learned a lot from b/c I believe I had some ancestors from there! Anxious to try some links out.\n\nfascinating! \n\nGood - I learned about new resources available.\n\ngood explainations!