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Guide to '''Caithness | Guide to '''Caithness ancestry, family history and genealogy:''' birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. | ||
{{Click|Image:Scotland_ORP.png|Scotland Online Genealogy Records}} | {{Click|Image:Scotland_ORP.png|Scotland Online Genealogy Records}} | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Caithness | Caithness is the furthest north county of mainland Scotland. It is bounded on the north by the Pentland Firth, on the east and south-east by the North Sea, and on the west and south-west by the county of Sutherland. It is about forty-three miles in length and thirty miles in breadth and comprises an area of 618 square miles or 395,520 acres. | ||
On account of its remote situation, Caithness is connected with few historical events of importance except occasional hostilities with the Danes and Norwegians. | On account of its remote situation, Caithness is connected with few historical events of importance except occasional hostilities with the Danes and Norwegians. | ||
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== Parishes == | == Parishes == | ||
Some of the Caithness | Some of the Caithness parish records are indexed in [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5850 '''Caithness, Scotland, Extracted Parish Records''']. <br> | ||
::This database is a collection of historical parish registers from the county of Caithness in the country of Scotland. The 9,100 records in this collection can range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records. Also included are some records from non-conformist churches. You will find interesting phonetic spelling. Some of the records may be in Latin or even a Welsh or Scottish dialect. Due to the nature of the records and because the records were originally compiled by a third party, it is difficult to absolutely verify the completeness and validity of the data. | ::This database is a collection of historical parish registers from the county of Caithness in the country of Scotland. The 9,100 records in this collection can range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records. Also included are some records from non-conformist churches. You will find interesting phonetic spelling. Some of the records may be in Latin or even a Welsh or Scottish dialect. Due to the nature of the records and because the records were originally compiled by a third party, it is difficult to absolutely verify the completeness and validity of the data. | ||
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