title: Tracing Your Scottish Family History
author:  Anthony Adolph 
description: Great tools for authentic historical research.... Check out your heraldry or tartan and follow lots of clues to your ancestral records. They help us to understand or imagine the society our ancestors experienced before emigrating to Canada or the U.S. (Lois Cooper <i>Muskoka Today</i> 2009-12-10)<br /><br />From the very first pages, the reader will realize that this [book's] particular approach to Scottish ancestry has a vigorous style that reflects the author's boundless enthusiasm.... Adolph introduces the reader to his subject in an eminently readable manner. The tone is conversational, not pedantic. His penchant for telling a good story leads the reader down the path to desired information, and then to the summit of what to do with it once it has been located. Both beginners and veteran researchers will find much that is useful and instructive in this book. Whereas other titles in this genre populate my library shelves as reference books, Tracing Your Scottish Family History will likely remain next to my reading chair, to be reread and enjoyed in small doses. By such means, the many interesting illustrations and exemplary vignettes can be savored again and again. Robbie Burns would be proud. (Norman D. Nicol, Ph.D. <i>National Genealogical Society Quarterly</i>)<br /><br />The basic rules of family history research apply to just about every country.... But there are many variations on the formula, which is why it's important to have a book that is specific to your country of origin... [This book is] well written and lavishly illustrated, so it's possible to find something of interest on almost any page. (Dave Obee <i>The National Post</i> 2009-08-15)<br /><br />Takes the reader step-by-step through the process of investigating their Scottish heritage.... Comprehensive details...and critical historical events, add color to your Scottish family tree. (<i>Family Chronicle</i>)<br /><br />A most helpful book... Comprehensive... Fascinating... Interesting and informative.... Of all the how-to books I have ever seen, Adolph's are the most beautiful... One can easily learn the basics for researching in Scotland and/or Ireland from Adolph's new works but more important, become truly informed on the historical background of these countries and ultimately learn why certain records were created and how they can be accessed. Photographs of ancient ruins as well as the charming countryside make one want to visit one's homeland, whether it is Scotland or Ireland! (Joan Griffis, Illinois Ancestors <i>The News Gazette (Champaign, IL)</i> 2009-05-01)<br /><br />Filled with lots of interesting photos and illustrations, Tracing Your Scottish Family History covers considerable areas to help you trace your Scottish roots...[It] is a good guide and research tool for tracing your Scottish family tree. (Glenn Perrett <i>Glenn Perrett.com: Historical Atlas and Family His</i> 2009-11-19)
zlib_text: Title Page
   
  WRITIN G UP YOUR FAMILY HISTORY
   
  A do-it-yourself guide
   
   
  By
  J ohn Titford
  
  Publisher Information
   
  First published 1996 in conjunction with the Federation of Family
  History Societies as Writing and Publishing Your Family History
  Second edition 2003 ©  John Titford 1996, 2003
  Reprinted 2005, 2009
  Publisher in 2011 by Countryside Books 3 Catherine Road Newbury,
  Berkshire
  www.countrysidebooks.co.uk
   
  Digital Edition converted and distributed in 2011 by
  Andrews UK Limited
  www.andrewsuk.com
   
  All rights reserved. No reproduction permitted without the prior
  permission of the publisher
   
  Cover design by Peter Davies, Nautilus Design
   
   Do you have a shoebox full of old photographs? (Left) Arthur and Annie
  Buckler, the author’s maternal grandparents on the day of their wedding,
  1897. (Middle) Benjamin Titford, silversmith and pawnbroker, poses for a
  photograph in the studio of Lock and Whitfield, Regent Street;  he was born
  in 1814, before the Battle of Waterloo;  (Right) Harr