Scottish Post-Office Directories online.

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:32 am

Montrose Budie · Post by **Montrose Budie** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:41 pm

Note that many of the cities and counties have more than one directory on this site.

I haven't checked them all but there's many for Dundee and Glasgow, going back beyond the PO Directories, to the City Directories that existed before that point, in both cases 1809.

mb

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:13 pm

Hi Alan,

Thanks for posting this! Do you know if there is a way to search the individual directories? The Aberdeen directory for 1911-1912 has 790 pages and when I looked at it using the Read Online feature, it was loading one page at a time. With my dial-up it might be next week before I see the whole thing!

Carol

Post by **SarahND** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:38 pm

Hi Carol,
If you click on the "read online" version, up in the upper right side of the browser page will be a search box. Fill in your name of interest (there are no Clerihews

) and it searches quite quickly.

Cheers,
Sarah

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:03 pm

Thanks Sarah. I tried that, but when it kept saying "searching" I thought that maybe it wasn't working with my computer or the whole directory had to load first. I'll try again with some of my other family names1

Carol

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:44 am

Hello Carol,

I’m on slow broadband and I’ve noticed that the right hand search column sometimes takes a while to load and also the pages especially if I magnify them. Sometimes also the search column results can be many and confusing.

On the first web page if you click on ‘full text’ that’s on the left side you’ll get the OCR’d text and you can search that using the page search facility of your Browser. The whole book should load relatively quickly.

The directories usually seem to be laid out in different sections, with a name directory, a street directory, and various other odds and ends. It’s not so easy to spot these in the text version.

If you find a name of interest there’ll be a page heading and number nearby. Take a note of those and go to the ‘read online’ book. Type the page number into the page box at the top right and enter. That’ll get you to the page and you can just turn them from there if necessary.

I’m not sure whether that will make things easier but you could give it a try.

All the best,
Alan

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:04 am

Here’s the full Scottish Directory list, 471 in total.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query ... publicdate

The National Library of Scotland has nearly 3000 of their items digitised at the Internet Archive.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query ... sort=-date

Alan

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:42 pm

Thanks Alan. I'll give it another try after the thunderstorms move out of our area. We were blasted out of bed at 3:45 am by the tornado sirens this morning! Better that than the tornadoes I guess! Turns out they were all radar indicated and none touched down, but I'm going to need lots of coffee this morning. Might need a nap later today too!

Carol

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:11 am

Back again Carol,

I forgot to mention that there’s the Google advanced search of the domain, although some Scottish Directory stuff may be so recent that Google hasn't quite finished there yet. Your R.I. Printer book appears right at the end of this lot. http://www.google.com/search?q=clerihew ... 1cbdb8a4a6

Keep your head down,
All the best,
Alan

steiner · Post by **steiner** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:11 pm

Thanks Currie great post.

I've already found two relatives at least in the 1840's.

thank you

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