MAILING LISTS

• County Sutherland - If you would like to receive updates as they happen on this site, discuss the items on site, ask for information, chat to others with similar interests, or just basically ask for help in beginning your family tree, this is the mailing list for you.
• From Sutherland to Australia - a mailing list for all those researching those who left Sutherland for Australia – run by Jenelle McCarrick, Queensland, who descends from Loth & Kildonan families

AREAS OF THIS WEBSITE HOSTED ELSEWHERE:

• Members Interests – lots of genealogy here – members of our mailing lists plus visitors to this site have logged their research interests
• Greetings Cards – a very special place run by talented graphic artists who also descend from Sutherland Families – this professional greetings card site is worth a visit – bookmark it for future visits – new cards added regularly
• Strictly Sutherland - beautiful desktop wallpapers and calendars created by Touch of Class with a Sutherland Theme - new items added regularly
• Maps of Sutherland
• Photographs of old black houses in the Highlands

My Family

• Murray Families of Rhemusaig, Rogart
• Mackenzie Families in Torbreck, Rogart

PARISHES OF SUTHERLAND:

Lots of links in each parish section – quick link to those pages here – check on each page for best links relating to that parish:

• ASSYNT
• CLYNE
• CREICH
• DORNOCH
• DURNESS
• EDDRACHILLIS
• FARR
• GOLSPIE
• LOTH & KILDONAN
• LAIRG
• ROGART
• TONGUE

OTHER USEFUL SITES:

• Scotland's People - pay site but one we cannot live without! All births, deaths & marriages in Scotland since 1855 plus census records since 1841 and Old Parish Registers pre 1855
• International Genealogical Indexes (IGI) - easy to use, free
• Highland Family History Society - useful resource - sell the indexes to many Sutherland census returns, useful society to join with good articles in their quarterly newsletter
• County Sutherland Surname List - long established research area - note there are lots of good links from this site - worth a look
• Libraries in Sutherland - useful list with opening and closing times plus names of all schools in the county
• FreeCen - free to use census returns - some Sutherland 1841s now on line
• The National Archives of Scotland (NAS)
• Want to work out those relationships?  If you wish to use the sheet they use you can download it HERE.  Neat and simple way to work out what cousin! 
• Ross & Cromarty Roots - NEW website full of great items including many burial ground photographs

NEWSPAPERS

• Northern Times - the 'local rag' new edition every Friday - good 'Looking Back' section
• Am Baile - lots of useful history and interest on this huge website
• Bratach - first class information and archives plus lots of articles by Malcolm Bangor-Jones

SUTHERLAND MISCELLANEOUS:

• Maps of Sutherland - old map from the National Library of Scotland
• History - very interesting article - scroll down to Sutherland items
• All Sutherland - click on the right hand menu to gain a quick look at all the places in Sutherland
• The Clearances - a good website telling many stories from this sad period
• Statistical Accounts of Sutherland
• Ministers & Men of the Far North - read the book and visit the other parts of this very useful Caithness website
• Memorabilia Domestica - Donald Sage - edited edition on line - full edition here

SUTHERLAND PHOTOGRAPHS

• Our Parish Projects – photographs sent in by members of this site and its mailing list
• Northern Sights - lovely website
• My own Sutherland photographs - sorted by parish
• The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and you can be part of it.  Visit their website to see how.  They do already have some great photographs of Sutherland.  I will be sending them some of my own.  I think this is a great project.