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Scottish headstone collection on Deceased Online tops 300,000 names

Posted by Gena Philibert Ortega on December 31, 2012 at 8:32am

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Headstone collections for 18 Fife burial sites added to Deceased Online

  • Records for 18 more burial grounds, cemeteries and churchyards in Fife have been added to the Deceased Online headstone collection from Scottish Monumental Inscriptions (SMI)
  • The records available date back to 1753, feature 39,000 names and comprise photos of headstones together with carefully transcribed digitized inscriptions for easy reading
  • There are now 51 burial sites in the Fife headstone collection available to search;
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5 Tips to Choosing an Online Genealogy Database

Posted by Lynn Palermo on January 18, 2010 at 1:45pm
Now more than ever, I can appreciate how confusing it can be for a family historian trying to decide on which database they would like to join when beginning their family research. If you’re an armchair genealogist then certainly you want to belong to an online genealogy database. The question is which database to join?I am here to tell you, only you can know the answer to that. How do you know?1. Gather as much information about your ancestors prior to seeking out a database. Where your ancesto
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Archaeology and Family History

Posted by Sarah MacLean on August 15, 2009 at 7:17am
When I introduce myself as an archaeologist I generally find that people make assumptions about what that actually means. For a start I get asked about what I’ve been digging up lately and have to explain that not all archaeologists dig. I have (or should I say had?) a desk job. On top of that there is the problem of what period do archaeologists actually cover? We don’t cover dinosaurs, not in the slightest. Archaeology is all about the study of man and as yet no one has found any evidence to s
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