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==== Fibis Resources ====
*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=682&s_id=196 The Scots Overseas] from the book of the same name, a referenced list of men and women who emigrated or adventured to British India compiled by David Dobson. See below for more details of this book and other publications by Dobson.
====India Related Links ====
:Some records from National Records of Scotland, see below, are available on FamilySearch catalogued as "Microfilm of original records ... in the New Register House, Edinburgh". These are mainly catalogued as Old parochial registers [OPR], parish registers or blotter registers. There are also some records catalogued from National Archives of Scotland. Use the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog Catalog Search]. Currently (2021/03/07) these records are catalogued as available both at [[FamilySearch Centres| FamilySearch Family History Centres]] and at FS Affiliate Libraries, although in the past at times they were restricted to Family History Centres only, so always check access restrictions.
:FamilySearch Digital Library contains [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/745737 ''Smith's inventory of genealogical sources : Scotland''] in 34 volumes c 1994, with most volumes covering a different county. To view, you need to be signed into FamilySearch. A description in the first volume states "The Inventory provides a locator for items within printed and unpublished material. For example, there are many historical society publications, serials, and periodicals that deal with a variety of subjects. ...The Inventory is designed to bring to light some of the valuable articles hidden within these sources which are not well known to the amateur genealogist. ...The cut-off date for material in this Inventory is December 1989." [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/606832-smith-s-inventory-of-genealogical-sources-scotland-v-01-pt-01?viewer=1&page=11 List of Subjects covered] Volume 1, pages 8-12.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203704/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/scots.htm Indexes with an India connection transcribed from the "Emigrants from Glasgow and the West of Scotland"] . Rampais website, now archived. The Indexes were transcribed from records a series of booklets with that title at:[https://www.scotsgenealogy.com/Home.aspx The Scottish Genealogy Society] located in Edinburgh. At least some of the entries appear to be the same as those compiled by David Dobson, for which transcriptions appear in the FIBIS database, refer FIBIS resources, above.
*[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ ScotlandsPeople]. scotlandspeople.gov.uk. A free to search, but pay to view site containing “almost 80 million records” as at March 2010. Includes Births, Marriages, Deaths, Wills and Censuses.
**[https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/guides/forenames#Forenames%20and%20naming%20patterns Forenames and naming patterns in Scotland]
*Online [https://archive.org/details/scottishdirectories?sort=-date Scottish Directories] from the collection of the [http://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland National Library of Scotland on Archive.org]. Also available on the [http://digital.nls.uk/directories/ National Library of Scotland] website, where there is a '''Search''' facility. The collection on Archive.org is probably easier to browse, the collection on the NLS website easier to search.
*[https://maps.nls.uk/additions.html "New gazetteer for searching Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile, 1888-1913 maps" [of England, Scotland, and Wales<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Scroll down to entry dated April 2018 for details. Direct link for [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=1&b=1 Search] maps.nls.uk.
==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].*: 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].** Also see [[West Indies]] for further publications by David Dobson, including some online, and also [[East Africa]].
==External links==
*[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''.[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.
