ONLINE ARCHIVES

ELECTRIC SCOTLAND

electricscotland.com Alastair McIntyre’s Electric Scotland site is packed with resources dealing with Scottish ancestry and history. Its many useful holdings include Francis Groome’s Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, and thousands of books covering a range of subjects, such as the Scottish worldwide diaspora. AM BAILE

ambaile.org.uk High Life Highland’s bilingual website Am Baile, meaning ‘the village’, has a range of resources relevant to the history and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. As well as many photos, books and documents, there is a newspaper index for several Inverness-shire and north Scotland-based titles. NLS INTERNET ARCHIVE

archive.org/ details/ nationallibraryofscotland The National Library of Scotland has a dedicated platform on the Internet Archive. Among the collections freely available are published family histories, military lists for the British Army, RAF, and Royal Navy, rolls of honour, gazetteers, over a thousand Post Office directories, Gaelic manuscripts, and much more.