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Scottish Research and Scottish Civil Registration March 2004 by Terri Bradshaw O’Neill Volume 28, Number 3 Issue 244 A publication of the A Little Background Dallas Genealogical Society What we refer to in the US as Civil Registration, the recording of birth, marriage, and death records, is called Statutory Records in Scotland. Inside This Issue: While our states generally did not mandate the keeping of these records 41 Scottish Research & Scottish Civil until well after 1900 in most cases, Scotland began mandatory civil Registration registration in 1855. Before 1855, Parish records were kept for 42 President’s Column christenings, marriages and burial. Scotland’s decennial censuses were New Members taken one year after the US censuses. From 1841, the census takers Hats Off enumerated every person in the household by name. Census records are 43-44 2003-4 Society Programs available from the LDS Family History Library, but they are not indexed. AAGIG & CIG Programs Fortunately, the population of Scotland was lower than the US, thus Bad Weather information making a rural search less daunting. 44-47 Scottish Research – continued Begin with What You Know 47-49 NGS Family Papers Collection Naturalization papers can provide vital information as to your ancestor’s place of origin in Scotland. The IGI was searched for the family names, 49 FNGS Conference – September and likely ones were noted. What used to take hours of microfiche 50-51 DGS Writing Awards information reading at a Family History Center can now be done much more efficiently on FamilySearch.com. This research was undertaken in 2000, 52-55 New Acquisitions and nearly all of it was done in the Dallas Public Library Genealogy 55 Beginner Workshops Section. 56-57 Regional & National Events Fortunately, earlier research by some of my Harvey cousins provided me 58 SLC Trip registration form with the starting point of my research. The four family names of interest to Richland College classes me were Harvey, Hall, Milne, and Murison and they lived in 59 DGS Contacts Aberdeenshire. The village of Strichen was where I concentrated my Membership Application search, as that is where my great-grandfather, Alexander Keith Harvey, 60 DGS Calendar was born. I began ordering microfilm from the Family History Library and I kept a research log: • Parish of Strichen Registers of Births, Marriages, and Burials • Censuses of Strichen and surrounding areas - 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871 Dallas Genealogical Society P.O. Box 12446 This is where I came across the little “disruption” in church records… Dallas, Texas 75225-0446 See page 44 for more information www.dallasgenealogy.org GENERAL DGS NEWS Visit the DGS webpage calendar at www.dallasgenealogy.org/calendar.htm. It is going to become a ‘community’ calendar with as many of the local area society meetings being listed with links to their information. This is to assist PRESIDENT’S COLUMN individuals in knowing what is going on in all of our local genealogy communities. We hope this will be We’re planning some exciting things for the next of use to not just our members, but any individual year. We’ve decided to try holding our General wanting to learn about researching their families. Business Meetings and programs year round. This means we won’t be taking a hiatus for the summer We hope to see you at some of our future events months, so mark your calendars for the fourth and want to encourage you to bring a friend, a Monday of every month! cousin, a parent, a sibling, or a child with you. Help others catch the genealogy bug! Did you know that on General Business Meeting Tresa nights, the library exchanges your parking pass for $2 – no matter how long you are at the library? Welcome To Our New Members Use this opportunity to spend the day at the library doing research and only pay $2 for parking! Peggy Anderson, Gloria A. Bradford, George Addison Field, Jr., New Services: If you would like an e-mail reminder Judye Glick, Allison Y. Jackson, Lois Lilly, Dianne for the General Meetings, send an e-mail to Rogan Martin, William R. McHone, Jr., Herbert [email protected] and you will Miller, Jr., Jane Rackler receive an e-mail a few days prior to the meeting giving you the speaker, the topic, as well as time and place. Trying Something New: If you would like to attend, but don’t want to drive downtown at night, e-mail us at [email protected]. Leave a message for the Dunaway’s at (972) 252-3745, to arrange a carpool pickup to attend the meetings. Hats Off! Joy and Bob have graciously volunteered to be “carpool coordinators.” (This number is subject to To a great team of DGS members who made the change as volunteers change) Hank Z Jones Lecture on 7 February 2004 a superb success. The board and library staff has set the next Lock-in date for 24 July 2004 and we are pleased to Special thanks to: Rose Alyce Beasley, Lloyd de announce, as requested by many research friends, Witt Bockstruck, Ed Boehringer, Mel Brewer, Pat the 7th floor collections will also be available to us Biczynski, Bill Deal, Elizabeth Deihl, Bob and Joy on that night. The staff on the 7th floor has asked Dunaway, Jerry Fillebrown, Marti Fox, Alvin Harper, for anyone wanting to use their materials the night Pat Hatcher, Shirley Hawn, Patricia Haynes, Grover of the lock-in to give them a list at least 4 days in and Jan Livingston, Alan Miller, Ed Millis, Mitch advance so they can pull the materials and have Mitchell, Susan Morris, Elizabeth Perry, Jemmy them waiting for folks on Saturday evening. It also Phipps, Susan Powdrill, Shirley Sloat, Betty Jean means researchers don't have to wait for them to Steinke, Mary Francis Stevens, Tresa Tatyrek, pull materials – you can go straight to work. They Suzan Younger, Al Weeks, Ann Williams, and would, of course, pull additional materials as Barbara and John Wylie. needed here or there -- just not a whole laundry list of items. Saturday’s event was successful in so many ways. We had a wonderful speaker and a nice greeting by the Mayor of the City of Richardson. We attracted Dallas Genealogical Society / March 2004 / Volume 28/ Number 3 42 GENERAL DGS NEWS some new attendees, received some new or long- everyone is invited to an informal Q & A expired renewals of membership, enjoyed meeting session. other participants, and appreciated the ambiance of the lovely Eisemann Center building (despite a few Monday, March 22 physical problems). Speaker: Kathy Mays Smith Topic: “The Civilian Conservation Corps Hank Jones’ presentation caused me to be (CCC): Backbone of Our Nation and Military, personally “renewed” and enthusiastically ready to 1933-1942” get back to my own research. I hope many of you Kathy, a local author, has brought to life the had similar reactions. And Hank was very, very significant history of our country prior to World War impressed by the warmth, energy and enthusiasm II with her book, Gold Medal CCC Company 1538: of our members. He repeated several times to me A Documentary. For too long, this time period how much he enjoyed coming to Dallas for our (1933-1942) of our history has been overlooked or meeting. neglected. Unwise farming methods, destruction of forests, the Great Dust Bowl and 25% Such an event couldn’t happen without the help you unemployment left our country devastated until the all provided. creation of the CCC, which turned around and improved all of these conditions. Come hear more Shirley R. Sloat, VP Fundraising about this tide of 3,500,000 men in 4,500 CCC camps. Kathy is the daughter of the first commander of this Happenings Around th army corps and lived with him when he served as DPL’s 8 Floor Volunteer Desk Marshall of the Court at the Nurmberg Trials. She Susan has two openings for volunteers to assist on has also lived in Turkey and Libya. Her degrees in DPL’s Eighth Floor. science are from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a Phi Beta Kappa, and from Contact: Susan Morris @ 214-942-4051 or Stephen F. Austin State University. She moved to [email protected]. Dallas in 1972. We will also be voting on the recommended DGS By-Law changes at this meeting. 2003-2004 DGS SOCIETY PROGRAMS Monday, April 26 Speaker: Lynell Moss and Jeanette Hurst Topic: “The British Record Collection of the Regular DGS and Special Interest Group Family History Library” meetings are held at Lynell Moss is a sixth generation Dallasite, who Dallas’ J. Erik Jonsson Central Library began genealogical research in 1968 and began 1515 Young Street working in the first Branch Genealogical Library in the Plaza level auditorium, which opened in Dallas in 1969. She began serving unless otherwise noted. in the Plano Family History Center in 1990 and as the Director since 1997. She has taught family DGS General Membership history classes for over ten years. Her family history research has produced a database linking Meets on the Fourth Monday over 33,000 individuals. She has also extracted several records, some of which are available online Our monthly meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. with our (four of which are on DGS’s website). speaker presentation to follow. Come early. We begin at 6:00 p.m. with Jeanette Hurst holds a Masters degree in Medieval refreshments and fellowship, 6:30 p.m. Studies from the University of Notre Dame and a Dallas Genealogical Society / March 2004 / Volume 28/ Number 3 43 GENERAL DGS NEWS PhD from Cornell University in Medieval History programs on tracing African-American roots.