Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet by Chris Paton

Author:Chris Paton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry
Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
Published: 2020-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

Medical

For those who worked in the medical professions, Ancestry has a variety of searchable databases available with biographical content:

• UK, Dentist Registers, 1879–1942

• UK, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615–1930

• UK, Physiotherapy and Masseuse Registers, 1895–1980

• UK, Medical and Dental Students Registers, 1882–1937

• UK & Ireland, Medical Directories, 1845–1942

• UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817–1857

• UK Surgeon Superintendents’ Journals of Convict Ships, 1858–1867

• The Dunfermline Illustrated Almanac. Diary and Medical Guide 1868

• UK Medical Registers, 1859–1959

FindmyPast also hosts the ‘Scotland, Glasgow Anderson’s College Anatomy Students 1860–1874’ collection, noting students who studied at Anderson College of Medicine, and a UK Medical Register from 1913. TheGenealogist further holds Medical Registers from 1861, 1873, 1875, 1888, 1891, and 1903, Medical Directories from 1848 and 1895, and a Dentists Register from 1937. In addition it hosts a ‘1727–1898 Roll of Army Medical Staff’.

The Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh has Scotland’s oldest medical library, with its Heritage platform at www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage hosting a range of useful digitised resources, including a Medical Biographies section for some of the capital’s more famous practitioners. The Index of Doctors in Scotland During the First World War is a separate platform from the college at http://smsec.rcpe.ac.uk, which provides a searchable database of physicians who registered with the Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee as part of enrolment efforts during the conflict.

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, established in 1505, has a Special Collections platform at https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-collections and a Surgeons database at https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/surgeons-database. FindmyPast also hosts a separate ‘Scotland, Fellows Of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1581– 1873’ database. In the west, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow has a Heritage section at https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk, with an Archive catalogue at https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/rcpsg.

ScotlandsPlaces carries Medical Officers of Health Reports for Scotland from 1891, with further reports freely available online from the Wellcome Library at https://search.wellcomelibrary.org. Search the term ‘digmoh (scotland)’.

If your ancestor was a nurse, the ‘Military Nurses 1856–1994’ collection on FindmyPast includes records from various sources, including the Army Nursing Service, the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS), Royal Hospital Chelsea nurses, and the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, founded in 1914 with funding from the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies and the American Red Cross. The database also holds service information on nurses who served in the Second World War. Further information on those who worked in the Scottish Women’s Hospitals and in other nursing roles can be found on the British Military Nursing site at www.scarletfinders.co.uk.

The St Andrew’s Ambulance Association story is at www.firstaid.org.uk/charity/about-us/history, with the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS) history at www.wrvs.org.uk/about-us/our-history.

Find historic Scottish health records via the Hospital Records Database at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords or Discovery (p.9)

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