My latest Unlock the Past Scottish and Irish books now available in the UK

Yorkshire based My History (www.my-history.co.uk) has now made available several more Unlock the Past books within the UK, including my two latest guides, Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis and Irish Family History Resources Online (2nd edition). Here are the details:

Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis
Price: £7
http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Down-and-Out-in-Scotland--Researching-Ancestral-Crisis-UTP0286.html#SID=876

It is perhaps one of greatest truisms of family history research that we will often find that the lives of our ancestors were best documented when the chips were truly down.

There were many battles that our forebears fought for and against in Scotland, both on a personal level and as part of the society within which they lived. There were the laws of the local parish church and the punishments awaiting those who breached kirk discipline; the struggles to avoid poverty and the stigma of being a debtor; the darkest moments of the soul, from mental health issues and illness, to murder and suicide; and the dramatic moments of rebellion, when our forebears drew a line in the sand against a perceived tyranny or democratic deficit. Illness, death, bigamy, abandonment, accidents, eviction, ethnic cleansing - a dramatic range of challenges across a lifetime, and at times, outright tragedy. And close to each of them, a quill and ink.

But through all of these episodes, there is an even greater story that emerges, of how our ancestors overcame such struggles. In this Unlock the Past guide, genealogist Chris Paton goes in search of the records of ancestral hardship in Scotland, to allow us to truly understand the situations that our ancestors had to endure and overcome across the generations, to help us become the very people who we are today.


Irish Family History Resources Online (2nd edition)
Price: £9
http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Irish-Family-History-Resources-Online-UTP0282.html#SID=876

There is a popular belief that Irish family history research is virtually impossible because ‘all the records were burned in the civil war’. But as Northern Irish born family historian Chris Paton demonstrates, the glass is most definitely half full rather than half empty when it comes to research in the Emerald Isle. Many records still exist which can help with your ancestral pursuits, and for those unable to make their way to Ireland to carry out research, the internet is finally coming to the rescue, as more and more material is increasingly finding its way online by the day.

This concise Unlock the Past guide explores the key repositories and records now available online, and will prove to you that if you have been put off with Irish research in the past, now is absolutely the time to take another look.



Ebook editions are also available from www.gen-ebooks.com. These are in PDF format, with the Scottish title available for AU$7.95 (about £4.15) and the Irish title at AU$9.95 (about £5.20).

For the full range of books now available from My History, please visit http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Unlock-the-Past-Booklets.html.

Chris

For details on my latest book Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, and my other genealogy guide books please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. To commission me for genealogical research, please visit my research site at www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk.