TalkingScot.com

TalkingScot is a rather new web site that has been set up as a meeting place for people with an interest in Scottish genealogy, history, and culture. The site is very informal and includes these features:

• Forum: Talk to the members of TalkingScot.
• Gallery: Upload, view or download pictures.
• Experts: Professional people who offer a professional service.
• Societies: Family History Societies.
• Sources: Valuable sources of genealogical data.
• Libraries: Places where you can find useful information.
• Registrar: Registration Districts in Scotland.
• Census: A concise explanation of the Census in Scotland.

I found the forum to be very active, with several thousand messages posted by people researching Scottish ancestry. The same message forum also has a section for Scots who have moved elsewhere, called Scots Abroad.

The Gallery has a few pictures posted although the number is limited. Experts is a place where professional genealogy researchers post their advertisements.

I was quite impressed with all the resources listed in Sources, Libraries, Registrar and Census. Each section has lengthy lists and texts that tell where to find records, as well as giving explanations of the records available.

All in all, TalkingScot.com is a friendly and useful site for the Scottish genealogist. You can see it at http://www.TalkingScot.com

Comments

[Sandra Beacock]

Dear Richard,
I enjoy your newsletters very much. Thank you for all the great information. Would you take a look at the Gould Genealogy Site. I find it very good and I wonder if some of your readers would be interested.
Sincerely,
Sandra Beacock

[joseph]

hi there if anyone could help wen i was young mr brooks-baker ask my mum for my family name because there not many in the uk im seceond name is Glendinning if anyone could help find out why he wanted to know thanks from mr j glendinning x

[andy]

Talking scot have closed-down

[marilyn morning]

TalkingScot is alive and well. The company who owned the server shut it down giving no prior warning to those whose sites were stored there, it seems. TS is not the only web site affected - there are several others leaving posts to the same effect on the web -it came as as surprise to everyone, not just TS. Efforts are currently being made to connect TalkingScot with the new server. One of the AG members will post a note here as soon as we're back in business, which should be in the next few days.

Marilyn Morning
Administrator of TalkingScot

[Roger Moffat]

Thanks for the update Marilyn - I've been wondering what happened, but couldn't find anything with a Google search a couple of days ago. What a bummer especially with July being the month of "The Gathering".

[marilyn morning]

TalkingScot members

We understand how stressful and nerve racking this past week has been for the members of TalkingScot. Believe me its been no picnic for our group, but we have picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off, held our heads high and moved forward in a positive direction, leaving all of this negative experience behind us.

As soon as we’re ready to accept our membership back, we’ll post a message here as well as many of the other blogs listed in this thread.

Please bear with us for a little while longer and we promise to be back up in tiptop shape, in the very near future.

Thank you for everyone’s positive feedback. We greatly appreciate your continued support and understanding during this time.

The video of “the bridge” was especially enjoyable!

Marilyn
TalkingScot Admin Group