ScotlandsPlaces and other HES sites currently down

Several websites hosted by Historic Environment Scotland are currently down, including ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandspalecs.gov.uk), Britain from Above (www.britainfromabove.org.uk) and Canmore.

The sites have not been available since Friday afternoon. Hopefully they will be back up soon!

Chris

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Historic Medical Officer of Health reports

There's an interesting spot by Canadian based blogger John Reid concerning new Aberdeen Medical Officer of Health Reports that are now available online from the Wellcome Library - John's post is at http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/2018/07/medical-officer-of-health-reports-for.html. The post refers to the reports from the years 1890, 1895, 1900 and 1902-1971, for the city of Aberdeen only, although a search of the catalogue shows that there are many other reports from across Britain and Ireland that are also available.

Medical Officer of Health reports from across Scotland for the year 1891 only are also freely available on the ScotlandsPlaces website at https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/official-reports/medical-officer-health-reports.Here's the blurb on the site for this collection:

From 1890 onwards a full-time Medical Officer of Health was appointed in each county in Scotland with a remit to report on the state of health of the county and its various parishes and towns. The annual reports of the Medical Officers give an objective view of the living conditions, diseases and major health issues in different parts of Scotland. Information on the individual parishes and towns are found within the 'registration districts' headings found in these volumes. The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) has an incomplete set of the published reports from 1891 onwards (NAS HH62).

A useful resource to help add some context to the environments where your ancestors once lived.

(With thanks to John Reid)

Chris

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ScotlandsPlaces transcription facility paused until 2018

From ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk):

Scotland’s Places Update

We are delighted to report on the success and the increased use of the Scotland’s Places website. Figures for 2016-17 show that there has been a 21% increase in users consulting the website compared to the previous year. In total over 3.5million pages were viewed (up from 2.7m) by researchers around the globe. Digital volumes in particular saw a 54% increase in use largely thanks to the valuable work undertaken by the moderators and transcribers to increase the accessibility and ability to search key documents.

There has also been significant time invested in active promotion of Scotland’s Places. Kim Harsley, the Project Officer has been travelling the country promoting Scotland’s Places in talks to local and family history societies; attending events such as family history fairs, the Scottish Learning Festival, and Who Do You Think You Are Live in Birmingham. She has also been leading the social media campaign which has been an increasingly active area for promotional work and through the year we have seen a growing number of followers on Twitter and Facebook.

Following the move of Kim to a new job in August we want to take the opportunity to build on the success of the project and to reflect how best to go forward with transcriptions. To do this we will be pausing all transcription work from August 25th until early next year. News regarding the future of the project will become available later this year.

Thank you for your valued contributions and input to this highly successful project.


Scotland’s Places Governance Board

15 August 2017

(Original announcement at http://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/scotlands-places-update)

Chris


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ScotlandsPlaces records now free to access

Major news from Scotland, in that the records collections on ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk) have now been made available free of charge. In the past the site hosted a mixture of records, some of which were free to access (as was the case when the site was originally launched), and others which required a subscription of £15 +VAT, i.e. £18 (the only records collection I ever saw in the UK which advertised its sub on that basis!), although transcripts of some of those records were free to access. The sources for the collections are the National Records of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland, and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (now part of Historic Environment Scotland).

The records that are now completely free on the site are:

Historical Tax Rolls

Carriage Tax, 1785-1798, (20 volumes)
Cart Tax, 1785-1798, (14 volumes)
Clock and Watch Tax, 1797-1798, (2 volumes)
Consolidated Schedules of Assessed Taxes, 1798-1799 (32 volumes)
Dog Tax, 1797-1798, (2 volumes)
Farm Horse Tax, 1797-1798, (13 volumes)
Female Servant Tax, 1785-1792, (28 volumes)
Hearth Tax, 1691-1695, (43 volumes)
Horse Tax, 1785-1798, (33 volumes)
Inhabited House Tax, 1778-1798 (64 volumes)
Land Tax, 1645-1831, (129 volumes)
Male Servant Tax, 1777-1798, (27 volumes)
Poll Tax, 1694-1698, (88 volumes)
Shop Tax, 1785-1789, (8 volumes)
Window Tax, 1748-1798, (218 volumes)


Ordnance Survey Name Books

Aberdeenshire, 1865-1878, (91 volumes)Argyll, 1868-1878, (81 volumes)
Ayrshire, 1855-1857, (64 volumes)
Banffshire, 1867-1869, (28 volumes)
Berwickshire, 1856-1858, (41 volumes)
Buteshire, 1855-1864, (7 volumes)
Caithness, 1871-1873, (15 volumes)
Clackmannanshire, 1861-1862, (7 volumes)
Dumfriesshire, 1848-1858, (55 volumes)
Dunbartonshire, 1860, (18 volumes)
East Lothian, 1853-1854, (55 volumes)
Fife and Kinross-shire, 1853-1855, (135 volumes)
Forfarshire (Angus), 1857-1861, (84 volumes)
Inverness-shire, 1876-1878, (86 volumes)
Kincardineshire, 1863, (20 volumes)
Kircudbrightshire, 1848-1851, (159 volumes)
Lanarkshire, 1858-1861, (50 volumes)
Midlothian, 1852-1853, (135 volumes)
Morayshire, 1868-1871, (23 volumes)
Nairnshire, 1869, (7 volumes)
Orkney, 1878-1880, (26 volumes)
Peeblesshire, 1856-1858, (47 volumes)
Perthshire, 1856-1858, (79 volumes)
Renfrewshire, 1856-1857, (21 volumes)
Ross and Cromarty, 1848-1852, (187 volumes)
Roxburghshire, 1858-1860, (42 volumes)
Selkirkshire, 1858, (15 volumes)
Shetland, 1877-1878, (26 volumes)
Stirlingshire, ca 1864, (27 volumes)
Sutherland, 1871-1875, (35 volumes)
West Lothian, 1855-1859, (69 volumes)
Wigtownshire, 1845-1849, (88 volumes)


RCAHMS Archives

Alexander Curle diaries, 1908-1953 (14 volumes)
Inventories, 1909-1992 (30 volumes)


Burgh registers

Aberdeenshire Burgh Registers, 1398-1511 (8 volumes)


Official Reports

Medical Officer of Health Reports, 1891
Land Ownership Commission Reports, 1872-1873


Published Gazetteers and Atlases

Hay Shennan, County and Parish Boundaries, 1892
An Atlas of Scottish History to 1707


Hydrographic Surveys

Bathmetrical Surveys of Scottish Lochs, 1898-1909


Archaeological and architectural sites, and historical maps and plans

1st edition 6-inch series1st edition 25-inch series
2nd and later edition 6-inch series
2nd and later edition 25-inch series

The ScotlandsPlaces team are still looking for volunteer transcribers to help with deciphering some of the collections from their older script forms, so if interested, do drop them a note!

Have fun! :)

Chris

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National Records of Scotland online services restored

The National Records of Scotland (www.nrscotland.gov.uk) has announced that its online services, including its catalogue, Scottish Documents platform, SCAN site, ScotlandsPlaces and others, have been fully restored. It also notes that "Work will continue to improve the resilience of our infrastructure, and we are sorry for any inconvenience caused" . The full announcement is at www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2015/update-on-online-services.

The problem was previously identified as being one with its servers, but why no back-ups could come into play has not been explained, and the fact that work still needs to be carried out to "improve the resilience" of its infrastructure doesn't particularly inspire confidence that everything has as yet been resolved.

It is to be hoped that a body that should be the main archival institution in Scotland setting the standards in the country never again fails so catastrophically with its service provision, not only for its own services but for those others reliant on it to carry content.

It's been a right shambles, but at least things are back up and running again, hopefully permanently.

Chris

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Server problems continue with National Records of Scotland services

Earlier today I tweeted the National Records of Scotland (www.nrscotland.gov.uk) asking for a meaningful update as to why the online catalogue services for the archive, and other services reliant on the NRS (e.g. the SCAN catalogue for some fifty archives across the country), are still not available, now more than three weeks since they first went offline. To say it is now becoming farcical would be an understatement.

The NRS has duly complied with an update at http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2015/nrs-online-services. The records are offline because of a service failure, but they still cannot provide any details as to when services will be restored. The catalogue is accessible at the archive, but not online, which I guess is fine for folk living in Edinburgh, but not for those living further afield within the nation. I should add that this is disrupting my own ability to carry out client research, and I have heard from other genealogists and academics that they are similarly being frustrated in their endeavours to make a living.

One other point is that I believe that the problems may also be affecting the ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk) platform with regards to the provision of some images. I noticed this a few days ago with some of the free to access collections such as the Farm Horse Tax records, whilst a friend of mine at WDYTYA Live reported similar problems that he has also encountered over the last few days. The transcripts for those images that have been completed are still available however.

It's simply beyond belief.

Chris

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Scottish hearth tax records 1691-96 now fully transcribed

The surviving 43 volumes of Scottish Hearth Tax records from 1691-1695 have now been fully transcribed on the ScotlandsPlaces website (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk). The transcripts are free to access, although a subscription to the platform is required to see the original records.

For further information visit www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/historical-tax-rolls/hearth-tax-records-1691-1695.

(With thanks to @NatRecordsScot)

Chris

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Scottish poll tax records from 1690s go online

The ScotlandsPlaces website (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk) has added thousands of Scottish poll tax records online, as held within 88 registers at the National Records of Scotlnd. From the NRS news re3lease:

Poll taxes were imposed in 1694, 1695 and twice in 1698 in order to pay for the Scottish army and navy. Almost 1500 pages of tax records provide a snapshot of thousands of Scots from every walk of life, from cottars to dukes. They complement other historical tax records already available at ScotlandsPlaces in revealing life for ordinary people in late seventeenth century Scotland. From aristocrats to workmen, the Scottish poll tax rolls from the reign of William and Mary reveal an extraordinary range of people who were liable to pay the tax imposed to meet the cost of foreign wars and the defence of the kingdom. Searchable by parish, the tax rolls provide a valuable new resource for social and family history.

For details of the coverage visit ScotlandsPlasces dedicated Poll tax page at www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/news/poll-tax-1694-1698

(And before any local councils get excited, I think any arrears from this lot have long been written off...!)

Chris

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Scottish consolidated tax schedules 1798-1799 on ScotlandsPlaces

The National Records for Scotland (www.nrscotland.gov.uk) has announced that consolidated tax schedule records from 1798-1799, replacing a myriad of separate Scottish tax lists from previous years, have now been made available on ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk). There is a caveat, however, in that records are available only for counties which begin with the letters A-M - so no schedules survive for Nairnshire, Orkney, Peebles-shire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Ross-shire and Wigtownshire.

For further details visit http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2014/consolidated-tax-schedules-released-online.

Chris

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ScotlandsPlaces - new records update

ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.org.uk) has added three new collections to its site, as follows:

Inhabited House Tax 1778-1798 - from the site:

Duties on inhabited houses were first imposed in 1778. The resulting tax schedules (E326/3/1-65), drawn up by the Exchequer, were bound by counties, with royal burghs included under their respective counties. An exception is the burgh schedules for 1786-87 and 1789-90, which were found several years after the above arrangement was made and which have been bound in alphabetical order for each year (E326/63-64). The schedules for 1793-94, 1795-96 and 1796-97 are entirely wanting, except for the 1793-94 schedules for Inverness-shire and Inverness burgh (vol. 21). After 1798 this duty was incorporated in the comprehensive Assessed Taxes Schedules.


RCAHMS Inventories 1909-1992 - from the site:

Initially, RCAHMS recorded all buildings and monuments of note until the year 1707. This was later updated to 1805. The findings were published in a series of inventories. Changes in what constitutes a construction "of note", plus developments in how the public could access this information, led to the abandonment of the inventories after publication of the last Argyll volume in 1992. Consequently, only approximately half of Scotland was covered by this method.


Alexander Curle 1908-1913 (diaries) - from the site:

Alexander Curle was the RCAHMS secretary between 1908 and 1913. Little did Alexander Curle realise as he penned the words 'Having started on my course of inspection of the ancient monuments of Scotland I have deemed it advisable to keep a journal wherein I may record my various experiences and adventures as such may from time to time befall me', that his 'Private journal of a wandering Antiquary' would be treasured today as one of the initial items in the RCAHMS collections. Please note that the 1st Curle diary which covers 1913 to 1953 will be added in the coming months.


I note also that the first eight volumes of Aberdeen burgh records have been added to the site. Some blurb on this also:

The first eight volumes of Aberdeen burgh registers, which cover the period 1398 – 1511, are included in the UK Register of Important Documentary Heritage, part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. The 5,238 pages of the first eight volumes represent the earliest and most complete body of surviving records of any Scottish town. Alongside the Exchequer Rolls and the Register of the Great Seal held by the National Records of Scotland, these records are the only surviving near-continuous record for Scotland in the fifteenth century which give an unrivalled insight into the political and social life of the Scottish medieval town. Aberdeen's medieval city council functioned both as a policy making unit and as a legal court and usually met twice a week. The early council records contain not only documents of detailed council discussions of policy, but also of the council's more routine concerns, such as legal decisions in hundreds of disputes between citizens, either at the instigation of individuals or the council's own officials.

Full details on these are at www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/burgh-records?class=county&name=Aberdeenshire&id=1

Chris

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ScotlandsPlaces Ordnance Survey name books additions completed

The ScotlandsPlaces website (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk) has now completed the upload of some 1668 Ordnance Survey name books from the 19th century.

The National Records of Scotland (www.nrscotland.gov.uk) has a feature at www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2013/ordnance-survey-name-books noting the achievement, as well as providing details of an accompanying exhibition to the project in Edinburgh which runs until January 31st 2014.

Chris

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Scottish Ordnance Survey Name Books exhibition

From the latest ScotlandsPeople newsletter:

From Ae to Zetland: Scotland in the Ordnance Survey Name Books

A free exhibition about these fascinating records of Scottish places and people is marking the completion of a big project to put all the Name Books on the ScotlandsPlaces website. It opens on Friday 6 December, when the last books will become available online.

Starting on the Isle of Lewis in the 1840s, the Ordnance surveyors took in Ae in Dumfriesshire during the 1850s, covered the rest of the mainland and the islands from the 1850s to 1870s, and finally reached Zetland (Shetland) in 1877-78. The Name Books include all the names of man-made and natural features that are shown on the first Ordnance Survey maps of Scotland. They also list the 'authorities' who informed them of spellings and meanings, which provides a potential source for family historians.

The free exhibition runs at the National Records of Scotland, Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh from 6 December until 31 January 2014.

To find out more about the Ordnance Survey Name Books and to view two examples (from parishes in Old Deer in Aberdeenshire and the Isle of Mull), visit http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=2225.

(With thanks to ScotlandsPeople)

Chris

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ScotlandsPlaces puts window tax volumes online

The latest digital records release from ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandplaces.gov.uk) is the series of 218 volumes of window tax registers from the 18th century, implemented in 1747 in Scotland as a tax to help pay for foreign wars. Not everyone was liable - your property initially had to have ten windows for you to be taxed, later reduced to seven. If you were taxed though, it was a right pane - sorry, pain (oh come on!).

For more on the release see www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/node/1028749. Further Ordnance Survey books have also been released for Roxburghshire (1858-1860), Ross and Cromarty (1848-1852), Lanarkshire (1858-1861) and Argyll (1868-1878).

(With thanks to Tim Ellis at the NRS, @timgov)

UPDATE: The BBC also has the story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23356213 which notes that there will be a free accompanying exhibition called Window on the Past at General Register House, Edinburgh, from July 29th to August 23rd.

Chris

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ScotlandsPlaces transcriber project

I was asked to keep schtum on this for a bit as a few bits and bobs were tested, but as I've seen a few tweets and blog posts about it elsewhere, suspect it is OK to mention now!

The ScotlandsPlaces website at www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk has recently had a bit of a revamp and has also initiated a new volunteer transcriber programme, essentially a crowdsourcing project to essentially have all of its records transcribed and made fully searchable. To facilitate this new initiative ScotlandsPlaces will be hosting a series of workshops across the country for those wishing to become transcribers, with guidance on how to get the best of the site, tips on palaeography and more - there will also be public lectures to tie in.

For further details on the transcriber project visit the ScotlandsPlaces news page at www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/news, whilst for details of workshop events in your area visit www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/transcribe/workshops.

The site has also added new records, as supplied from the National Library of Scotland:

• The Scottish Bridges collection includes 131 historical images of the Tay (in 1879) and Forth (during 1886-1887) Bridges.
• The Photographs of the South Side of Edinburgh include 137 black and white images taken in 1929 by Alfred Henry Rushbrook on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Improvement Trust.
• The Slezer engravings from 1693 are the first ever pictorial survey of Scotland and were done by John Slezer (a military engineer).
• The "Word on the Street" collection include 1,800 Scottish broadsides between 1650 and 1910.

Chris

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ScotlandsPlaces releases more tax records

From ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk):

We are pleased to let you know that we have now added the following historical tax rolls into the ScotlandsPlaces subscription service:

• Shop tax, 1785-1789
• Horse tax, 1785-1798

As you may know, the OS name books for Morayshire and East Lothian, as well as the 18th century dog, cart, and carriage tax rolls were also recently added to the site.

You will automatically gain access to these when you log into the site to use your subscription. More historical tax rolls and Ordnance Survey name books will be added in the coming months.

(With thanks to ScotlandsPlaces)

Chris

My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. For my other genealogy books, please visit  http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html; whilst for my online Scottish based genealogy courses please visit the Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd site.

ScotlandsPlaces - OS name books for East Lothian and Morayshire

Ordnance Survey name books for Morayshire (1868-1871) and East Lothian (1853-1854) have now been added to the subscription part of the ScotlandsPlaces website (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk)

(With thanks to ScotlandsPlaces)

Chris

My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. For my other genealogy books, please visit  http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html; whilst for my online Scottish based genealogy courses please visit the Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd site.

ScotlandsPlaces adds more Ordnance Survey name books

From ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk):

We are pleased to let you know that we have now added the following Ordnance Survey name books into the ScotlandsPlaces subscription service:

• Perthshire, 1859-1862
• Sutherland, 1871-1875

As you may know, the 18th century dog, cart, and carriage tax rolls were also recently added to the site.

You will automatically gain access to these when you log into the site to use your subscription. More historical tax rolls and Ordnance Survey name books will be added in the coming months.

We thank you for supporting the ScotlandsPlaces digitisation program and we hope that you enjoy the resources now available.

(With thanks to ScotlandsPlaces)

Chris

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New tax records added to ScotlandsPlaces

From ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk)

We are pleased to let you know that we have now added three more historical tax rolls into the ScotlandsPlaces subscription service:

• Dog tax, 1797-1798
• Cart tax, 1785-1798
• Carriage tax, 1785-1798

You will automatically gain access to these new tax rolls when you log into the site to use your subscription. More historical tax rolls and Ordnance Survey name books will be added shortly.

COMMENT: I'm quite chuffed with the timing of this, as I only renewed my subscription to the site yesterday!

(Thanks to ScotlandsPlaces)

Chris

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More Ordnance Survey Books on ScotlandsPlaces

The following Ordnance Survey name books have been added to the ScotlandsPlaces subscription service at www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk:

Banffshire, 1867-1869
Kincardineshire, 1863
Orkney 1878-1880
Dunbartonshire, 1860
Peeblesshire, 1858-1858
Selkirkshire, 1858

(With thanks to ScotlandsPlaces)

Chris

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ScotlandsPlaces adds more Ordnance Survey name books

From ScotlandsPlaces (www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk)

We are pleased to let you know that we have now added the following Ordnance Survey Name Books into the ScotlandsPlaces subscription service:

Dunbartonshire, 1860
Peeblesshire, 1858-1858
Selkirkshire, 1858

You will automatically gain access to these when you log into the site to use your subscription. More historical tax rolls and Ordnance Survey name books will be added in the coming months.

(With thanks to ScotlandsPlaces)

Chris

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