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FAMILY NAMES
Fife Family History Society
Kingdom of Fife Surnames List
Tay Valley Family History Society
GOVERNMENT SITES
Fife Council - home page.
HISTORY AND CULTURE
ABERTAY Historical Society
FORTH RAIL BRIDGE - list of casualties during construction 1884-1892
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KINCARDINE-on-Forth Local History Group
LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES
Familia - a directory of family history resources held in public libraries in central Fife.
Familia - a directory of family history resources held in public libraries in east Fife.
Familia - a directory of family history resources held in public libraries in west Fife.
University of St Andrews - library.
Fife Council Archive Centre
Fife Council - libraries.
Fife Council - museums and galleries.
Kircaldy Central Library - details.
Dunfermline Central Library - details.
LOCAL WEBSITES
ABERDOUR - Jurors 1851.
ANSTRUTHER - Easter burials 1836-1854.
ANSTRUTHER - Fife Free Church births & baptisms 1843-1847.
AUCHTERTOOL - Jurors 1851.
AUCHTERMUCHTY - deeds 1757-1874.
AUCHTERMUCHTY - Free Church births, baptisms & marriages 1843-1854.
BALLINGRY - Jurors 1851.
BALMERINO - deaths 1823-1854.
BUCKHAVEN - parish of Wemyss 1851 census transcription.
BUCKHAVEN WEST - parish of Wemyss 1851 census transcription.
CAIRNEYHILL - Associate Baptisms 1746-1768
CERES - Associate Congregation Baptisms, 1738-1806, 1808, 1836-37
CARNOCK - jurors 1851.
CRAIL - Associate Congregation baptisms 1821-1852 (with gaps), from Book 1, Kirk Session Records.
CREICH & FLISK - baptisms and marriages 1843-1854.
CUPAR - Sheriff Court Aliment Decrees, 1830 - 1854 (when an unmarried woman gave birth to an illegitimate child, often she would seek alimony, or aliment, against the father).
DALGETY - jurors 1851.
DUNFERMLINE - Sheriff Court aliment decrees, 1830-1854.
DUNFERMLINE - St Margarets UP Church baptisms 1851-1854.
DUNFERMLINE - Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline by the Rev. Peter Chalmers A.M. Published in 1844 this 599 page book is available to download free from the Google Book site.
DYSART - old Records including marriages from 1540.
DYSART - 1851 census (partial).
DYSART - St Serf's interments 1795-1899.
DYSART - Relief Church Baptisms 1828-1831.
EAST WEMYSS - 1851 census enumeration district 4.
ELIE Parish Church and cemetery. Details of names and inscriptions (incomplete)
FORGAN - parish valuation roll 1855.
FORGAN & NEWPORT - directories, valuation rolls, baptisms indexed by mother's maiden name etc.
INCHOLM - historic island and abbey in the Firth of Forth
INVERTIEL - church baptisms 1844-1854.
KILCONQUHAR - list of burials 1847-1854.
KINGSBARN - conservation village situated between St Andrews and the East Neuk of Fife.
KIRKCALDY - baptisms 1852-1854 from Bethelfield U.P. Church.
KIRKLAND - parish of Wemyss 1851 census transcription.
LEVEN - Leven Relief Church baptisms 1834-1854.
MARKINCH - burials 1799-1854.
METHIL - parish of Wemyss 1851 census transcription.
METHILHILL - parish of Wemyss 1851 Census transcription.
NEWBURGH - Associate Congregation baptisms and marriages 1785-1812 & 1821-1849.
NEWBURGH - genealogical index to Lindores Abbey and its Burgh of Newburgh (Pub. 1876).
NEWPORT & FORGAN - genealogy includes voters rolls, valuation rolls.
PATHHEAD - Associate Congregation baptisms 1760-1854.
PITTENWEEM - St.John's Episcopal Church baptisms, marriages and deaths 1799-1854.
RATHILLET - Associate Congregation baptisms and marriages 1762-1840.
SALINE - jurors 1851.
SALINE - 1851 census.
SALINE - paupers 1845-1852.
SCOONIE - 1841 census surname index.
SCOONIE - 1841 census enumeration district descriptions.
SCOONIE - 1851 census (part 1).
SCOONIE - 1851 census (Part 2).
ST ANDREWS - History of St. Andrews, Episcopal, manastic, academic and civil; comprising the principal part of the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland from the earliest age till the present time, by the Rev. C.J. Lyon M.A. Published in 1843, this 443 page book is available to download free from the Google Book site.
STRATHMIGLO - 1851 census enumeration districts 1-3.
STRATHMIGLO - 1851 census enumeration districts 4-6.
TORRYBURN - jurors 1851.
TULLIALLAN - headstones Of Tulliallan Kirkyard, Kincardine-on-Forth.
TULLIALLAN - marriages 1673-1819 (Formerly Perthshire now Fife).
WEST WEMYSS - 1851 census enumeration district 1.
WEMYSS - 1851 census enumeration district 2.
MAPS, GAZETTEERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Ordnance Survey maps - free online maps covering the period 1860-1870.
Fifeshire - historic Ordnance Survey maps in 1:10,560 scale.
Town Plan of Burntisland - surveyed 1894
Town Plan of Cupar - surveyed 1854
Town Plan of Cupar - surveyed 1893-4
Town Plan of Dunfermline - surveyed 1854
Town Plan of Dunfermline - surveyed 1894
Town Plan of Kirkcaldy - surveyed 1855
Town Plan of Kirkcaldy - surveyed 1894
Town Plan of St Andrews - surveyed 1854
Town Plan of St Andrews - surveyed 1893
MILITARY
Grave Location for Holders of the Victoria Cross in Fife
Fife Roll of Honour
Some war memorials and cemeteries of Fife
Loyal Tay Fencibles - List of Fife men who enrolled in the Militia 1794-1801.
NEWSPAPERS
The Courier - Online archives back to 2003 only.
East Fife Mail, Fife Free Press, Fife Herald, Glenrothes Gazette & St. Andrews Citizen
Dunfermline Press - home page.
OTHER BITS AND PIECES
Poorhouses in Scotland - Dunfermline Combination, Dysart Combination & Kirkcaldy Combination.
Drew's Scottish Genealogy and Ancestor Search - 1851 Fife census and also births, deaths and marriages (also 1851 Angus census and birth, deaths and marriages).
East of Fife Railway Shareholders 1845
Fife Births
Fife Brides
Fife Grooms
Fife Parish and Probate Records - 130,300 records including baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, tombstone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists & wills.
Fife GenWeb - part of the British Isles GenWeb Project
GENUKI's pages for Fife
Scots - Roots - contains East Wemyss Macduff MIs, St Fillans Churchyard Aberdour, Buckhaven Photographs, The Woods Of Largo, Coaltown of Wemyss, Wemyss photos from the beach, Balgonie Castle &
Moss Morran Pit Disaster 1901.
1861 Parochial Directory - for Fife and Kinross Excerpts ( for the villages of villages of Blebo Craigs, Blebo Mills, & Kemback Mills.
IGI Batch Numbers for Fife
Some war memorials and cemeteries of Fife
Various Fife records - including census, birth, baptism, marriage and death records, 1851 list of jurors, Fife shopkeepers and traders 1820 - 1870.
Some Fife-born Strays found on the 1851 Census in England
Ships in port - 1881 census of ships in port in Fife and Perth.
1851 Census - (partial) for Abbotshall, Auchtermuchty, Crail, Dalgety, Dunfermline, Kilmany and Markinch.
Fife Council - catalogues now online. Local history materials include books, maps, artefacts, photographs, newspapers, oral history recordings, video recordings, manuscripts and ephemera. The archives also include the minute books of Fife Council and records of official bodies that have been maintaining roads and dealing with other county wide issues since 1709.
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