Scottish Genealogy Research Links:
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ - ScotlandsPeople website. Includes all Scottish statutory birth, marriage, and death records from 1855 onwards, census records from 1841 onwards, as well as all pre-1855 birth, marriage and death parish records, and more. The best place to start researching your Scottish ancestors.
http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/ - the National Records of Scotland. Formed from the merger of the National Archives of Scotland and the General Register Office of Scotland. The ScotlandsPeople website is also part of the National Records of Scotland.
http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/census-records/pre-1841-census-records - National Records of Scotland guide to where any surviving pre-1841 Scottish census records are held.
http://www.nls.uk/ - National Library of Scotland. The Sutherland Estate Papers are held here.
https://nls-mss-public.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inventories/dep313.pdf - Main inventory to the Sutherland Papers as held by the National Library of Scotland.
https://www.highlifehighland.com/archives-service/ - Highland Archive Service, where the 1811 parish of Farr census is held.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ - National Archives (UK). This is the National Archives in Kew, London which includes records for the whole of the UK and where all of the military records used in compiling this website are from.
Other Munro family websites:
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVW2Vxqm3 - The Munros of Tullich, parish of Kilmuir Easter, Ross-shire by Paul Munro who is a distant relation of mine as confirmed by the Y-DNA testing, but the connection is too far back to be found in written records.
http://www.munrofamilyhistory.com/ - The Munros of Inverness, Scotland, Michigan City Indiana, Ferndale Washington, Busby Alberta and Simcoe County, Ontario. Family history of a Munro contact of mine, although not related as far as is known.
http://familyhistories.atspace.com/munro/index.htm - Munros of Contin. Family history of a Munro contact of mine, although not related as far as is known.
https://www.kirkmichael.info/ - Kirkmichael Trust - website of a contact of mine who has been very helpful. The parishes of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden were united in 1662 to form the parish of Resolis.
Clan websites:
https://www.clanmackaysociety.co.uk/ - The official Clan Mackay Society website.
http://www.clanmunro.org.uk/ - The official Clan Munro Association website.
Scottish clans were groups of people who adopted the surname of the chief to show solidarity, for protection and sustenance. They were not necessarily all related to each other through the male line, although many of them would have been - as well as through female lines. Those bearing the name Munro, Munroe, Monro or Monroe etc are largely descendants of the people who were tenants of the landowning families of the same name in Easter Ross - the Munros of Foulis who were the clan chiefs. The book Clan, King, and Covenant: History of the Highland Clans from the Civil War to the Glencoe Massacre by J.L Roberts (2000), explains that contrary to popular belief, the ordinary clansmen rarely had any blood tie of kinship with the clan chiefs, but they took the chief's surname as their own when surnames came into common use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and thus by the eighteenth century the myth had arisen that the whole clan was descended from one ancestor. My 4th great-grandfather Alexander Munro of Armadale is alleged to have been a "Cadet" of the Munros of Foulis, Ross-shire.
There can be only one.....
The Crehans of Creeveroe, about my Irish ancestors on my Mum's side.
The Temebeats just a band I was in when I was a kid.
According to Ancestry DNA, I am 43% Scottish, 31% Irish, 16% English & Northwest European, and 10% Welsh.