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Course image Scottish: Understanding Scotland (From 2012 - Scottish: Census Records)
Course Summary: Archived
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AFTER NOVEMBER 2012
SCOTTISH: CENSUS RECORDS (Sheena Tait)
This course looks at the history, structure and contents of the 1841-1911 censuses of Scotland. Strategies for searching and locating the records will be discussed together with the limitations of the various sources. We will then look at the research possibilities of earlier census returns, together with their survival back to “Dr Webster’s census” of 1755. We will also look at the National Identity Register of 1939.
BEFORE JANUARY 2008
UNDERSTANDING SCOTLAND (Arlene Eakle)
This course represents the Jurisdictional Approach to Scottish Research. This approach makes it easier to find and access records themselves. It also emphasizes the context in which ancestors lived their lives. The importance of knowing the structure and relationship of government units to each other and to the population of Scotland cannot be overemphasized. Each unit had its own governing rights and created its own records. These records often paralleled or overlapped coverage of the people subject to that jurisdiction. In times of local chaos, loss of records by one unit can be compensated in the preservation of records in another.
AFTER NOVEMBER 2012
SCOTTISH: CENSUS RECORDS (Sheena Tait)
This course looks at the history, structure and contents of the 1841-1911 censuses of Scotland. Strategies for searching and locating the records will be discussed together with the limitations of the various sources. We will then look at the research possibilities of earlier census returns, together with their survival back to “Dr Webster’s census” of 1755. We will also look at the National Identity Register of 1939.
BEFORE JANUARY 2008
UNDERSTANDING SCOTLAND (Arlene Eakle)
This course represents the Jurisdictional Approach to Scottish Research. This approach makes it easier to find and access records themselves. It also emphasizes the context in which ancestors lived their lives. The importance of knowing the structure and relationship of government units to each other and to the population of Scotland cannot be overemphasized. Each unit had its own governing rights and created its own records. These records often paralleled or overlapped coverage of the people subject to that jurisdiction. In times of local chaos, loss of records by one unit can be compensated in the preservation of records in another.
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