Scottish Roots: The Step-By-Step Guide to Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

by Alwyn James

Overview

Who? When? Where? Alwyn James's revised guide to genealogy provides the answers Clear step-by-step instructions and useful advice for tracing your family tree The ideal starting point even for those who knew little more than a grandparent No need to be on the spot - includes a chapter on distance research How to start, all the preparations required, starting at home

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781842820902
Publisher:	Luath Press Limited
Publication date:	06/28/2005
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	179
Product dimensions:	5.04(w) x 7.56(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

ALWYN JAMES spent his childhood and schooldays in the Welsh valley town of Tredegar. After two dramatic changes of scenery, firstly three years at Cambridge University in the flat landscape of East Anglia and then ten years as editor of an industrial magazine in London, he arrived in 1970, almost by accident, in Scotland. In the years since then, his career has been all about communication, as editor, writer, press officer and internal publications chief, the last two with The Royal Bank of Sotland. An unapologetic dilettante, he has, in addition to his books, written articles in the Scottish press on subjects as diverse as Enrico Caruso and Scottish banknotes, the explorer Alexander Mackenzie and Welsh rugby. Within the Royal Bank he is better known in a Jekyll and Hyde combination - jovial TV presenter and sadistic setter of quizzes. His flurry of writing since semi-retirement from the bank has produced a film script of Caruso's last days, a TV adaptation of a Victorian tear-jerker, a romantic crime novel - and boxes of rejection slips. He and his wife Jean, the inspiration behind Scottish Roots, have now established something of a dynasty in Edinburgh, with daughters-in-law and grandchildren swelling the numbers carrying on the Tredegar James name to nine, although two sons have fled the nest to Bavaria and Sweden.