Scots Kith and Kin: Bestselling Guide to the Clans and Surnames of Scotland (Collins Scottish Collection)

Scots Kith and Kin: Bestselling Guide to the Clans and Surnames of Scotland (Collins Scottish Collection)
Author: Clan House of Edinburgh
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Clans
ISBN: 9780007551798

Guide to over 4,000 Scottish family names and their clan affiliations with pull out map of Scotland. Whether you are a Highlander curious in your local heritage or a second generation Scot living abroad and piecing together your origins, this book will help you track down your roots.

Collins Guide to Scots Kith & Kin

Collins Guide to Scots Kith & Kin
Author: Clan House of Edinburgh
Publisher: Collins Publishers
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780007273287

From Abbott to Zuill, this expansive and helpful resource categorizes the origins of, relationships between, and affiliations of all major traditional Scottish clans and names. Information is provided on which surnames are associated with each clan, as well as the history behind each major clan. A fold-out color map of Scotland showing the homelands of the clans and illustrating significant events in Scottish history is also included.

Network North

Network North
Author: Steve Murdoch
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004146644

Discussing a series of economic, confessional, political and espionage networks, this volume provides an illuminating study of network history in Northern Europe in the early modern period. The empirically researched chapters advance existing 'social network theory' into accessible historical discussion.

Scottish Clan and Family Names

Scottish Clan and Family Names
Author: Roderick Martine
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1987
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781851584185

A guide to the surnames of Scotland with each entry covering the history, land areas, castles and tartans. Includes 240 tartans and maps.

Scotland

Scotland
Author: Francis Palgrave
Publisher:
Total Pages: 742
Release: 1837
Genre:
ISBN:

Scots and its Literature

Scots and its Literature
Author: J. Derrick McClure
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027276056

Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a poetic medium in the modern period. All fourteen articles, written and published between 1979 and 1988, have been extensively revised and updated. J. Derrick McClure is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Aberdeen University and a well-known authority on the history of Scots.

Scotland

Scotland
Author: Great Britain. Exchequer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 742
Release: 1837
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Scots Kith & Kin

Scots Kith & Kin
Author: Collins Celtic
Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1989
Genre: Clans
ISBN: 9780004356655

Listing Scottish family names and their clan affiliations, this guide gives information on where and when particular surnames originated, the clan to which they belong and its history, other related surnames and the correct tartan to wear.