Islay Links

ISLAY, SCOTLAND - Genealogy and Family History Links

For links to Scotland and Scottish genealogy and history, see the BC Genealogical Society's Worldwide Research Links section -
for Scotland
and for the United Kingdom 
 

ISLAY - GENEALOGY - Databases, indexes, books, articles, etc. 

Isle of Islay Index - the first stop for Islay, Scotland genealogy research: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/data.htm
Check out the photos of previous Islay group gatherings here.

Isle of Islay Cemetery Database, Sue Visser:  http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~steve/islay/cemetery/

Finlaggan, Islay Cultural Database, Roger McWee:  http://www.finlaggan.com/culturedb/icd.asp

Statistics of Kildalton: lands, occupiers, stock and crop of the parish of Kildalton, 1843 (printed 1890), FamilySearch: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE114831

"Eight Days in Islay" by members of the Islay Association, Glasgow Herald, on the 2, 9, & 16, November, 1867, published as booklet, 1868: https://archive.org/details/reviewofseriesof00isla

ISLAY - GEOGRAPHIC NAMES

Place Names of Islay:  http://www.islayinfo.com/islay_place_names.html

Gaelic in the Landscape, Place-names in Islay and Jura / A’ Ghàidhlig air Aghaidh na Tìre
Ainmean-àite ann an Ìle agus Diùra by Jacob King and Michelle Cotter, Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba
Scottish National Heritage, (no date?), download .pdf: www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/publications/gaelic/islay%20jura%20book.pdf

ISLAY - MAPS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS

See the National Library of Scotland's maps and facilities: http://maps.nls.uk/index.html

Islay 1912, Plate 23, Bartholomew Survey Atlas of Scotland, Edinburgh Geographical Institute, 1912, National Library of Scotland: http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/bartholomew/page.cfm?id=1169

Islay, 1926, Sheet 69, Ordnance Survey Maps One-inch "Popular" edition, Scotland, 1921-1930, National Library of Scotland: http://maps.nls.uk/view/74400685

Islay articles and photographs, Becky Williamson, Geograph® Britain and Ireland project : http://www.geograph.org.uk/blog/?tag=islay

Map of Drove Roads (for moving cattle), Am Baile, Highland History and Culture: http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_maps.jsp?item_id=92165 

Islay, Vision of Britain:  http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21869

ISLAY - GUIDES TO HISTORY AND TRAVEL

Ileach, the Islay and Jura newspaper: http://www.ileach.co.uk/

Isle of Islay - a guide to Islay now and Islay history:
http://www.islayinfo.com/leaving-islay-history-of-islay-emigrations.html

The Isle of Islay, Armin Grewe:  http://www.armin-grewe.com/islay/islay.htm

Islay History, Neil Gordon:  http://islayhistory.blogspot.ca/

Islay Combination Poorhouse at Bowmore - for Jura, Kilarrow, Kilchoman and Kildalton parishes, The Workhouse:  http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Islay/

"Ancestry Genealogy Photographs Port Ellen Isle Of Islay Scotland", TourScotland, YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taoys62Y8TA

Lady of the Isles: http://www.ladyoftheisles.co.uk/index.html


NEARBY PLACES

Isle of Jura: http://isleofjura.scot/

 

ISLAY RESEARCHERS

Islay Lives, Elaine Scott: http://www.islay-lives.co.uk/islay-old-parish-registers/

ISLAY, SCOTLAND and related DNA RESEARCH 

 

Isles of the Hebrides DNA project, FamilyTreeDNA: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/isleofislay/about/background

Scottish DNA project, FamilyTreeDNA:  https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/scottishdna/about/background 

Isle of Jura Y-DNA Project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/diurach/about/background


ISLAY ON FACEBOOK,  TWITTER, PINTEREST, FLICKR


Islay on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=islay


Islay Pipe Band, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/islaypipeband?ref=ts&fref=ts 

Museum of Islay Life, Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Museum-of-Islay-Life/253572141449875?ref=ts&fref=ts


Old Islay Group, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/445628108785691/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Isle of Islay, Twitter: https://twitter.com/isleofislay

Islay Natural History Trust, Twitter:  https://twitter.com/isleofislay

Islay photographs on Flickr:  https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=islay

ISLAY - BEYOND SCOTLAND - Canada, United States, etc.

John Ramsay of Kildalton J.P., M.P., D.L.; being an account of his life in Islay and including the Diary of his trip to Canada in 1870 by Freda Ramsay, Includes some US references. Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/johnramsayofkild00ramsuoft  For another copy, see: https://archive.org/details/johnramsayofkild00ramsuoft

ISLAY, ONTARIO, CANADA - Victoria County.

Beaverton, Thorah, Eldon Historical Society: http://btehs.com/genealogy/

ISLAY, ALBERTA, CANADA - Vermilion River County. As of 1944, part of Municipal District of Vermilion_Valley_No._482,_Alberta.  

There'll Always Be An Islay - local history name index by Marion Sim, Alberta GenWeb:
http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~abarchiv/vermilionriver-bookindex-islay.html