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David Dobson
Memory Trees a collection of hand-drawn family trees created expressly for the scrapbook hobbyist. It begins with suggestions for choosing the design of your family tree, using purely aesthetic considerations…
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Reprinted, two parts in one, for Clearfield Company by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009 –T.p. verso.
This is the fourth volume (fifth part) in a series compiled by Mr. Dobson to identify the Lowland Scots who migrated to Ulster between 1575 and 1725–many of whose progeny…
Printed for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010 –T.p. verso.
The information in this book--which identifies many of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, Canongate, and Leith living at home and abroad during the mid-18th century--is based on both manuscript and published…
As with the other books in Dr. David Dobson's "Scottish People" series, this volume identifies thousands of individuals who were living in a Scottish burgh at the time of significant…
The earliest emigrants from Highland Perthshire were Jacobite prisoners transported to South Carolina, Maryland, and the West Indies in 1716 and 1746. The next group from Highland Perthshire were soldiers…
During the 17th century, when substantial numbers of Scots crossed over to Ireland to settle, much of this traffic went via the port of Ayr. At the same time, trading…
This volume concentrates on the period 1600 to 1800 when Aberdeen was one of the main cities in Scotland. By the middle of the 17th century it had a population…
The transformation of Belfast from a small village to a significant city began when it was granted a Royal Charter in 1613, thereby making it semi-autonomous and allowing economic expansion…
By the 18th century Dublin was the center of government, commerce, and finance for Ireland, trading with the British Isles, Europe, and across the Atlantic. Information on the 2,500 Dubliners…
The emphasis of this book is on that part of Strathmore lying within the county of Angus (formerly known as Forfarshire); it identifies over 3,000 people living in the small…
The colonial city of Charleston, South Carolina, grew to become the center of commerce for the southern region of British North America, comprising South Carolina, much of North Carolina, and…
This is the second volume by David Dobson focusing on 18th-century inhabitants of the Grampian Highlanders. It is part of a larger series by Mr. Dobson designed to identify the…
This is part of a series of books by David Dobson designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that…
Social and economic links between the Netherlands and England have existed since the medieval period. This book attempts to identify English people in the Netherlands, temporarily or permanently, as well…
Captain John Powell claimed Barbados for the Crown of England in 1625, and two years later the first shipload of settlers arrived from England. The island was ideal for the…
During the 16th and 17th centuries, there was significant emigration, both permanent and temporary, from Scotland to the Scandinavian lands of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Some of this was by…
This is the eleventh part of a series that helps the researcher to link an individual first to Ulster and then back to Scotland. Drawing on primary source material in…
This book contains references to people from Aberdeen at home and abroad, between 1800 and 1850. The entries bring together emigrants, their destinations, especially in North America, the West Indies…
This book identifies people from the old counties of Nairnshire, Morayshire, Banffshire, Aberdeenshire, and Kincardineshire for the period 1800-1850. The information derives from a wide range of contemporary sources such…
This book identifies the people resident in Glasgow and in neighboring Clydesdale (alias Lanarkshire), as well as persons abroad who originated in these locations, during the first half of the…
The county of Fife lies on the east coast of Scotland; it is a peninsula bounded by the Firth of Tay to the north, the North Sea to the east…
Leith lies on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, a few miles north of Edinburgh. Since the 12th century it has been the main port serving Edinburgh and…
Central Scotland includes the counties of Stirlingshire and neighboring Clackmannanshire, which stretch from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs to the upper reaches of the River Forth. The region is partly…
This work identifies people from the old counties of West Lothian, Mid Lothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, and Peeblesshire, now known as Lothian and Borders, for the period 1800…
This volume identifies many of the Irish soldiers in the British colonies in North America and the Caribbean from around 1650 until 1825.
The Grampian Highlands lie in north-east Scotland, from Aberdeenshire to eastern Perthshire. In the 17th century the region was controlled by clans loyal to the Stuart kings.
Revised edition of: Scots on the Chesapeake, 1607-1830
Identifies may of the people of the counties of Caithness, Sutherland, and Inverness-shire during the 17th century. Focuses on 17th-century Scottish emigration to the Caribbean and British North Atlantic colonies
This book identifies people resident in the adjacent counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire, as well as people abroad who originated there, between 1800-1850. The two counties now form a unitary…
Drawing upon the resources of the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh, Dr. Dobson here identifies upwards of 3,000 inhabitants of the Scottish Borders who themselves, or whose descendants, took…
This genealogical source book, part of a series devoted to ancient Scottish burghs, identifies many of the inhabitants of Dumfries of the 17th and 18th centuries and is overwhelmingly based…
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