Wednesday 27 March 2013

Orkney in a time of giants!

One of my favourite online blogs is that from up north, entitled Orkney Archives - Get Dusty. It has a healthy irreverence and humour in many of its posts. The latest concerns a beautiful map of Kirkwall from 1766 by Sir Laurence Dundas, which the blogger has concluded depicts the town "in the time of giants or really peedie hooses and ships...".

View the map and post at http://orkneyarchive.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/in-time-of-giants.html - then maybe explore some of its other previous posts!

Chris

My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. For my other genealogy books, please visit  http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html; whilst for my online Scottish based genealogy courses please visit the Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd site.

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