SUTHERLAND LINKS

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


Strictly Sutherland - beautiful desktop wallpapers and calendars created by Touch of Class with a Sutherland Theme

Maps of Sutherland

FAMILY TREES

See the Family page under each parish section

RESOURCE 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 - they sell the indexes to many Sutherland census returns, useful society to join with good articles in their quarterly newsletter

Libraries in Sutherland - useful list with opening and closing times plus names of all schools in the county

FreeCen - free to use census returns including some for Sutherland

The National Archives of Scotland (NAS)


MISCELLANEOUS

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!

Badbea, Caithness where many folks from Kildonan and Farr were evicted to - new website - I highly recommend a visit

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

Parish map - shows parishes of Sutherland plus Ross and Cromarty and Caithness - best parish map I have come across

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

PHOTOGRAPHS - Sutherland

Our Parish Projects – photographs sent in by members of this site and its mailing list

Northern Sights - lovely website

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.

SHIRLEY SUTHERLAND'S photo albums with lovely photographs of Golspie including many people pics

CLAN WEBSITES WITH SUTHERLAND INTEREST