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Genealogies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Accounts or histories of the descent of persons, families, or other groups, from an ancestor or ancestors; enumerations of ancestors and their descendants in the natural order of succession. (AAT) This heading was used in the published catalogues for general works on genealogy as a subject, and also for collections of genealogies. Particular genealogies were indexed under the name of the family. (NLS).

Found in 820 Collections and/or Records:

Names of members of the Mackenzie family, with dates of birth, death and marriages, written on the preliminary leaves, which are all that survive, of a copy of Samuel Clark's annotated edition of the Bible, 1690., 1712-1877.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2534
Scope and Contents

The manuscript gives details of members of the Mackenzie family from Henry Mackenzie, the author's grandfather, married in 1712, to the children of his son, Lord Mackenzie.

Dates: 1712-1877.

Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates: 1605-1725.