inspiring excellence in family history: stiffs and stones
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Delivered by Elizabeth Carmichael of the Local Studies Scotland (LOCSCOT) special interest group at the Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS), which took place 1-3 June 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Stiffs and Stones
CILIPS ConferenceJune 2009
Elizabeth Carmichael
Locscotwww.slainte.org.uk/cilips/sigs/locscot
Old Parish Registers - Deaths
• Church of Scotland
• Earliest from 1553
• Collected in by Register General in 1854
• Very incomplete holdings survive
• Now on Scotland’s People
• Microfilm in libraries
Cemeteries
• Kirkyards filled up
• Industrialisation
• Other denominations
• Almost all now in the care of local authorities
Interment Registers
• Good amount of detail
• Chronological
• Lair registers
Monumental Inscriptions
• Scottish Genealogy Society
• Surveys of burying grounds
• Increasing coverage
• Link generations
Other records
• Newspapers
• Local histories – libraries
• Archives
• Websites
Stiffs and Stones
CILIPS ConferenceJune 2009
Elizabeth CarmichaelLocscot
www.slainte.org.uk/cilips/sigs/locscot