Street view now enabled

For some time, as you may know, Google’s Street View has been available in the Scottish Borders and Dumfriesshire, however it was not available on the mapping through our website. We have now updated the format and it’s now available on www.maxwellancestry.com.

Search our census for free, like you always have, either by address or name: click “Display Map” next to Current Map/Satellite and you can view as a map, satellite, hybrid, terrain or street view.

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New Lanark’s people – The early years

I am pleased to announce that we are now selling the CD “New Lanark’s people – The early years” compiled by A.E. Laurie & Nicholas Young. This CD is a first attempt to bring together in one convenient place all the surviving records applicable to the people who lived and worked in New Lanark.

It is a monumental piece of research resulting in a truly fantastic resource for anybody with ancestors who lived in New Lanark. Here is just a few of the records you will find on the CD:

Birth, Marriages and Deaths

New Lanark Wills index

School registers

Newspapers

Kirk session minutes

Prison register index

Masons

An 1818 petition to the house of Lords naming over 500 local inhabitants

Lanark Sheriff court extracts…

…and much much more!

For a full list of contents, more information or to purchase the CD visit our website: www.maxwellancestry.com

Forgot to say: we have updated the site again

It has been so busy this week I forgot to mention the Census database was on Monday (31st May 2010). This update has added 1851 Glasserton, Wigtownshire.

Glasserton had a population of 1487 people in 1851 bringing the total number of entries in our 1851 census database to 215,630!

Carnwath 1851 census added to site

We have added the 1851 census for Carnwath to our free Scottish census search, this is a new publication which we have just produced. We are not planning to complete all of Lanarkshire by any means, however, that does bring the total of Lanarkshire parishes transcribed by us to eleven. This means that if you are looking for people in rural Lanarkshire our free census search is worth a shot although not as complete as it is for other counties.

Buy the book on-line today!