History of the Lindsay Family

A well written history of the Scottish House of Lindsay has been provided by Chris Lindesay, genealogist of the Clan Lindsay Society of Australia.

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A History of Clan Lindsay

http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/htol/lindsay2.html

His ancestors and descendants.   Compiled by: Rex "B." Lindsay. 
Edited and Expanded By: David J. Wardell (1990)

The web site is located at   http://www.wardell.org/gen/history_of_wbl_family.htm

Brian Tompsett of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hull, in UK, has posted an excellent copyrighted source for genealogical information on many of the Scottish Lindsays & Lindseys, both historical and contemporary.  Also included are other Lindsays from around the world.

This site can be found at  http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/gedx40.html

Genealogylinks.net consists of 400 pages, over 9,000 links; most of them to online surname searchable records such as ship's passenger lists, church records, cemetery transcriptions, military records and censuses.  The areas covered are for USA, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.

This website is located at   http://www.genealogylinks.net/index.html

Scottish Place-Name Society 

The Society, launched in February 1996, exists for the support of all aspects of toponymic studies in Scotland, and in particular the work of the Scottish Place-Name Database at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Edinburgh.  Also at this site is the Complete Parish Number List of Scotland including PARISH NAME,  YEARS of existence, PARISH NUMBER, and COUNTY.

The web site is located at   http://www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm 

 The Scots & the Clearances

The Scots and the Clearances is an excellent document on the movement of people between Scotland and Ireland and onward migration to North America, Australia and New Zealand.   It basically covers the 16^th century through the 19^th century offering the underlying reasons for the movement of people. 

It was compiled by Iain Kerr.

Tartan Finder

If you are interested in looking up the Lindsay Tartan or that of any other Scottish clan go to the Tartan Finder web site at  http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/tfinder.htp

Another great source of Scottish, Irish and English information is the UK and Ireland Genealogy site called GENUKI located at   http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/index.html

Did you ever want to print out a calendar for a previous year?  For the genealogist who wishes to know the exact day of the week that one of your ancestors was born or died, etc., then go to the following link below, type in the year desired at the bottom of the screen, and view or print a calendar of any year you wish.  http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/