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==Other records==
*David Dobson has written a number of books containing genealogical information, based on records found in libraries and archives in Scotland including
**''The Scots Overseas : Emigrants and Adventurers from Aberdeen and North East Scotland, Fife, Moray and Banff, Angus and Perth, Southern Scotland, Glasgow and the West of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland, the Lothians, and the Northern Highlands'' 2000. A reprint, originally published in multiple parts, probably with titles ''Emigrants and Adventurers from...''. Available at National Library of Scotland [https://search.nls.uk/permalink/f/sbbkgr/44NLS_ALMA21452454660004341 catalogue entry] and Family History Library, Salt Lake City Utah, USA, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/993985 catalogue entry]. The edition for ''Southern Scotland'' is available online, refer below.
*: Note, the FIBIS database contains some transcriptions, probably from this book, relating to India, see above.
**''A Directory of Scots in Asia, 1600-1900'' , variant title ''Scots in Asia, 1600-1900'' published 2008. Available at National Library of Scotland [https://search.nls.uk/permalink/f/sbbkgr/44NLS_ALMA21500189530004341 catalogue entry], at the British Library UIN: BLL01016767811 and Family History Library, Salt Lake City Utah, USA, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1569561 catalogue entry].
*[https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/research/publications/NRS-Scottish_handwriting_self-help_kit-Web_ready_version.pdf Scottish Handwriting 1500-1700. A self-help pack] nrscotland.gov.uk.
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25530110 "Scots in India in the Eighteenth Century"] by G. J. Bryant ''The Scottish Historical Review'' Vol. 64, No. 177, Part 1 (Apr., 1985), pp. 22-41. jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free. Some restrictions apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]] for more details.
*[[BACSA]] members only, available from the members only section. (Previously available generally). [https://www.bacsa.org.uk/membership/ "Scotland’s Empire: The Scots in British India"] (scroll down to podcasts) by Sir Tom Devine. [[BACSA]] podcast of a lecture 8 April 2019. "Scotland’s most distinguished historian Sir Tom Devine considers the role of Scots in India in administration, the military and trade with special reference to the period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Among the themes examined are the scale of Scottish ‘colonisation’ of the East India Company, the reasons for this and the impact of the India connection on Scotland itself. Sir Tom Devine is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Edinburgh. His books include ''To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora'', ''The Scottish Nation 1700–2000'' and ''Scotland’s Empire''. The 1st and 3rd books mentioned are available online, refer below. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Devine Tom Devine] Wikipedia. He was also joint editor and contributor to ''The Scottish Experience in Asia c. 1700 to the Present: Sojourners and Settlers'' 2017. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01019066002
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090615074522/http://www.tigerandthistle.net/index.htm The Tiger and the Thistle] Website project focusing on [[Tipu Sultan]] and the Scots in India, 1760-1800, now an archived website.
*[https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6864 ''A social and domestic history of the kilted and Highland Based Regiments of Foot, 1820-1920''] by D M Henderson [Diana Mary] 1986 PhD Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, University of Edinburgh.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j4ADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''A Dictionary and Digest of the Law of Scotland, with Short Explanations of the Most Ordinary English Law Terms''] by the late William Bell, revised and corrected, with numerous additions by George Ross 1861 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/insearchofscotti00hami/page/n5/mode/2up ''In Search of Scottish Ancestry''] by Gerald Hamilton-Edwards 1972. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Note, due to date of publication, online sources will not be covered.
*[https://archive.org/details/emigrantsadventu0000dobs/mode/2up ''The Scots Overseas. Emigrants and adventurers from Southern Scotland''] by David Dobson 1994 Archive.org Books to Borrow. Includes some records relating to India. Use Search terms such as India, East Indies, Calcutta, Bengal , Madras, Bombay etcto locate relevant entries, or Search by name.
*[https://archive.org/details/scotlandsempireo0000devi/mode/2up ''Scotland's Empire : the origins of the global diaspora''] by T M Devine 2012, first published 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow
:[https://archive.org/details/toendsofearthsco0000devi/mode/2up ''To the ends of the earth : Scotland's global diaspora, 1750-2010''] by T M Devine 2004, first published 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow
