Download or read book A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors written by Linda Jonas and published by Betterway Books. This book was released on 2002-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ten million Americans claim Scottish as their primary ethnicity. This book provides easy, step-by-step instruction that enables readers to research Scottish records more easily and efficiently, and discover their Scottish ancestors. Linda Jonas and Paul Milner cover a broad range of topics including getting started in Scottish research, accessing resources on the Internet, retrieving published records available at university and public libraries, and examining microfilmed original records through the Family History Library. They also feature the records of an actual family to illustrate how to use the wealth of resources available to genealogists. Linda Jonas has been a professional genealogist for 20 years and is president of the British Isles Family History Society-U.S.A. She is a frequent lecturer at national and regional conferences. Paul Milner is a British native who grew up in the borderlands of England and Scotland. He is a professional genealogical researcher and has specialized in British Isles research for the past 20 years. They are the co-authors of A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your English Ancestors.