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For general WikiTree guidance on reliable sources, please see the help page on Reliable Sources. This page contains a list of Project approved, reliable sources for both pre-1700 and pre-1500 profiles. It also contains lists of sources to be used with caution, and those that should not be used at all.
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Reliable Sources
- Scotland's People
- People of Medieval Scotland ("PoMS")
- The Scots Peerage edited by Sir James Balfour Paul (1846–1931) Lord Lyon King of Arms
- Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd edition
- The Red Book of Scotland by Gordon MacGregor (1987- ), 10 vols. updated frequently
- Hearth Tax Records 1691-1695
- Inventory of Published pre-1841 Population Listings, Scottish Association of Family History Societies
- Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, WT Space page
- Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ, WT Space page.
Reliable Sources with Conditions
- Find a Grave entries are considered a reliable source if they contain an image of the grave marker which is contemporaneous with the date of death, or at least a transcription of such a contemporaneous marker. Contemporary markers installed years later are often prone to contain errors so are at best only partially reliable, and FindAGrave entries which contain no image at all and/or no transcription are completely unacceptable as a reliable source.
See also
EuroAristo Project Reliable Sources
Unreliable Sources
- Burke's Peerage and all other reference works written by John Burke or other members of his family. These volumes rarely reference sources and contain many errors, the 19th century editions are particularly unreliable. Always use Cokayne or Richardson in preference to Burke.
- ThePeerage.com - find and cite the sources given in the references, don't cite thepeerage.com
- Stirnet.com - find and cite the sources given in the references, don't cite sirnet.com
- User generated trees such as Geni, MyHeritage, Ancestry, FamilySearch, Rootsweb, Geneanet, etc. These kinds of sites can be used to find details that can lead to reliable sources. Some trees cite sources that can be used for your profiles when you have checked them out. Never use a user generated tree as source.
- Unsourced or badly sourced gedcom imports.
- Generic repositories: eg. familysearch.com or ancestry.com Why Ancestry and FamilySearch Aren’t Sources
- Conglomerate indexes eg. Millenium Files, Yates Publishing Indexes.
- International Genealogical Index (IGI) (FamilySearch Historical Records) where up to 50 % of the entries are user generated.
- Published books, articles and blogs that do not have sources listed.
- See also Category:Frauds_and_Fabrications
Collaboration
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- Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Scotland Project WikiTree, Jen Hutton, and Jacqueline Baxter. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
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- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
edited by Linda (Carruth) Peterson
edited by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
I've noticed this has been used on https://www.hebrideanconnections.com some profiles (eg. Murdo Macaulay (abt.1640-aft.1663)). Is it considered reliable pre-1700?
Thanks Susie
edited by Susie (Potter) Officer
As a *secondary* source this one is a treasure trove. Most of the profiles on their site provide at least a source for the information, although not necessarily Volume, page, author, etc., as we'd love it to supply. But one could conceivably track down the original source records. As for adding it to this particular list, I would at most put it under the "Reliable with conditions" portion, but since it applies only to one geographic region we wouldn't place it here as these generally apply to the entire country. Let me know if my answer isn't clear.
[Edited to add:] Ideally the WT member would go through the information provided on the Hebridean Connections profile and identify their sources and add that to the WT profile. For example, citing the HC page, but adding "citing information obtained from Families of Lewis: Macaulay, and Uig Historical Society archive."
Cheers, Bobbie
edited by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
edited by Jean (Tennant) Skar