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If you have Scottish roots, there is a wealth of information available to help you trace your Scottish ancestors – either in person by visiting the Scotland’s People Centre in Edinburgh or online via the internet. The number of websites on Scottish genealogy research providing details of births, marriages, deaths, burials etc. seems to grow daily .....
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The Highland clearances took place over a relatively short period of time but their impact on the Highlands can still be seen today. If you have Scots roots your Scottish ancestors may well have been affected by the Scottish clearances.
In the hundred years between 1760 and 1860, a whole race was largely dispossessed and dispersed, often in the name of ‘improvement’ and actively supported by the law and the church.....
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If your Scottish ancestor was a farm servant or an agricultural labourer, then he or she is likely to have been employed on one or more of Scotland’s fermtouns (farm towns).
Most people researching their Scottish ancestry are likely to come eventually upon a relative who was a farm servant or an agricultural labourer. Before the industrial revolution and the availability of work in towns, a substantial percentage of the population lived and worked in the countryside.....
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James ‘Paraffin’ Young patented a method for producing oil from coal and shale and, in 1851, he opened the world’s first oil refinery near Bathgate in West Lothian. The shale oil industry lasted for just over a century and it’s estimated that 164 million tons of oil shale was mined in the life of the industry.
The industrial revolution in the late 18th century led to the demand for oil to lubricate the machines in the mills and factories.....
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