Vivienne DunstanMay 28, 2025
Finally getting around to contacting ScotlandsPeople to ask if they could fix their code so it doesn't report "1 records found" in search results rather than "1 record found". That's really poor programming, as hammered into computer science students in my 1st year class 35 years ago at St Andrews! #ScotlandsPeople #Programming
Vivienne DunstanSep 8, 2024
Found Melrose kirk session minutes at ScotlandsPeople include lists of schoolmasters 1768-1854 parish by parish in Presbytery of Chirnside. Whole bunch of Berwickshire places! Melrose isn't even in Berwickshire 😜 Likely paper records muddling in Scottish Record Office / National Records of Scotland. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #School #Schools #History #ScottishHistory #NationalRecordsOfScotland #ScotlandsPeople #Archive #Archives #HistoricalResearch #Berwickshire #Melrose #Roxburghshire #Scotland
Vivienne DunstanSep 3, 2024
Just had a peek at new ScotlandsPeople website! Haven't tried it properly yet. But happy I could (1) login, (2) it remembered my credits, (3) it's remembered the records I viewed before - and has a better image viewer now IMHO, and (4) searching seems to work easily, e.g. my test search that threw the last revamp worked this time. Phew, so far not as bad as I feared 😜 https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk #ScotlandsPeople #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland #HistoricalResearch
Explore your Scottish heritage | Scotland's People

Vivienne DunstanSep 2, 2024
Wish my brain would stop thinking "I'll just look up another 16th/17th century testament (will and/or inventory) to study in ScotlandsPeople" when the website is still down! Hope it comes back ok after latest upgrade / revamp. And hope it's not as disastrous as some other website revamps inc SP. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Scotland #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScotlandsPeople #website #websites #16thCentury #17thCentury #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Wills #Inventories
Vivienne DunstanAug 27, 2024
Working on another academic journal paper. And spending an alarming amount of time reporting census indexing errors to ScotlandsPeople. They've got the German accordionist's surname right (at least as recorded, in one of several variants), but it's forenames or even initials they've stuffed up on. #ScotlandsPeople #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Census #HistoricalResearch #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland #Germany #accordion #squeezebox #Music #NineteenthCentury #19thCentury
Vivienne DunstanAug 19, 2024
Just wrote up new research (while doing it!) using the online Melrose Church of Scotland communion rolls to figure out when my Dodds ancestors moved to Melrose in the mid 19th century. https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/using-communion-rolls-to-narrow-down-when-dodds-ancestors-moved-to-melrose/ #familyHistory #genealogy #migration #19thCentury #nineteenthCentury #ChurchOfScotland #kirk #communion #CommunionRolls #Melrose #ScottishBorders #Scotland #ScotlandsPeople
Using communion rolls to narrow down when Dodds ancestors moved to Melrose

A key maternal line for me is the Dodds family who settled in Melrose in the mid 19th century. The earliest head of the family to settle in the town was Alexander Dodds (1816-1877), land steward, b…

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AllyDAug 18, 2024

@jbenjamint @scothistrail #ScotlandsPeople has a page explores the #Kirkcaldy Kirk Session archives on Alison Dick and William Coke, leading to their execution on 19 November 1633.

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/article/tales-witchcraft-witch-hunting-kirkcaldy-kirk-session-minutes

Tales of witchcraft: Witch-hunting in the Kirkcaldy kirk session minutes | ScotlandsPeople

A quarrelsome couple and an introduction to witchcraft in early modern Scotland

Janealogy Scottish Fam HistAug 13, 2024
Some interesting #FamilyHistory discoveries at #ScotlandsPeople Inverness. And more questions eg why was an x2 great-aunt still working aged nearly 78 in 1921? In the home of Alexander Ure, Baron Strathclyde, former Lord Advocate?
Janealogy Scottish Fam HistAug 13, 2024
It’s a #ScotlandsPeople day in Inverness today. Partly some of my own #Orkney #FamilyHistory, in preparation for a visit from Canadian 3rd cousins at the weekend, and partly #OnePlaceStudy work. @geneadons @orkney
Elma FlemingNov 9, 2023
New records from #ScotlandsPeople - Scottish Women’s Land Army & Women’s Timber Corps from 1939 to 1950. Must reread Lumberjills and Land Army books #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WWII #Scotland