View our terms and conditions for use of our web site and our privacy policy. Visit Electric Scotland's Aois Community, our social networking site. Find our contact information and learn more about us. The Home Page of Electric Scotland ES Common Header Bar
This is where you'll find a comprehensive resource on Scottish accommodations. Electric Scotland's Article Service where you can both read articles and post your own. Beth's Newfangled Family Tree is a monthly publication giving genealogy advice as well as what's hapening on the Scottish Scene around the world. This is where you'll find around 300 books on Scottish history that we've published on the site. Our pages where you'll find books and articles about Robert Burns and his work. Gives you some information on the business scene in Scotland. This is where you can view Scottish events around the world and add your own. Learn about the history of Clans and Families of Scotland and the Scots-Irish. The personal site of Alastair McIntyre where he's posted his own mini biography as well as his travel journals. 5 volumes worth of biographies relating to Significant Scots. A weekly newsletter about the political scene in Scotland from the Scots Independent Newspaper. Lots of Scottish recipes along with contributions from our visitors. Play our collection of online games. 6 volume Gazetter on the place names of Scotland. This is our page for trying to give you advice on Genealogy. A FAQ where you go to get answers to frequently asked questions. Information and pictures about Historic places in Scotland such as castles and other properties. Main index page for our very large history section. Children resources including over 800 children's stories and lots of online and offline games. A bit of a catch-all page where you find loads of pages about music, haggis, scots language, culture, religion, humor and lots more. Our nature page where you can explore information on Scottish Wildlife, Plants, Flowers and lots more. Our weekly newsletters archive. Thousands of pictures of Scotland for you to enjoy. Loads of poetry and stories for you to enjoy with many contributions from visitors to our site. Our very own Webcard program which you can use to send online postcard to friends and relatives. Huge resources about the Scots Diaspora around the world and here is where you can find this information. A continually building information resource on the Scots-Irish who emigrated to Ulster and then onto many parts of the world, especially the USA. Create your own family tree with our special software. You can also import and export gedcom files. Our web-based scottish search engine which is a free resource for Scottish companies as well as Scottish organisations around the world. Current Scottish News headlines and links to Scottish news resources. A range of services, both big and small, that we currently offer. Our Tartan pages, giving you access to information on Tartans as well as tartan search engines. Sponsored by House of Tartan. Our travel section where we have loads of suggested tours of Scotland as well as old historic travel books. A wee collection of videos some of which we've produced ourselves. Learn about the last 100 pages we've added to our site which is updated daily.

Click here to get a Printer Friendly Page
 

Send Flowers

Alastair McIntyre sitting outside an hotel in Aberfeldy in ScotlandI'm Alastair McIntyre and I've prepared a series of videos that tell you about each of the main sections of the web site. The "Real Media version" requires the Real Player (a free version of which is available at www.real.com). Essentially I'm just trying to give you an overview of each section of the site and to tell you what you can find in them. I hope you'll find them useful and informative. Should you be interested in Scottish history you might also like to receive our FREE weekly email newsletter. And do Download our Free Sun Clock (960k) which is a World Map showing the times of major cities around the world.

The site was created in Scotland in 1996 and has been hosted in Kentucky in the USA since 1998 and now operated from Canada where I moved to from Scotland in 2004. Most of our material comes from antiquarian books which we publish onto the site. Most of these books can be hard to find as they are no longer in print and so can usually only be found in rare book rooms of libraries or second hand book shops. Not only will you find a lot of history about Scotland but also social history and history of agriculture, medicine, law, education, etc. You will also find a lot of histories on individual clans and families, Scots-Irish history and also histories of Scottish people that emigrated and worked in virtually every country in the world and the role they played in their new home lands. As well as all the history we've added material on travelling to Scotland with lots of suggested tours and hundreds of pictures. For the young ones we've added some 800 children's stories as well as some wee games which all ages will enjoy. To help you find content on the site we have a site search engine in our header and so you can be assured that all links will have something to do with Scotland making it easier to find what you are looking for. As well as that we also have a Tartan search engine in our Tartans section.

To be frank if I were to sit with you and take you through all the sections of the site it would take at least 2 hours just to give you an overview and so you can see that the site is very large. We add chapters of books every day to the site so if you catch us at the start of a new book you can read it with us as we publish it chapter by chapter.  I essentially lay the book on my flat bed scanner then use my OCR program to scan the pages.  Once done I proof the scan and then post it on the site.

When I first started Electric Scotland is was to play a role in my own personal life in that I have always enjoyed History but at school we got very little Scottish history. And so when I decided to build a web site Scottish History was the obvious choice. It meant I could learn about Scottish History myself and as I learned I'd publish the books onto the web site to share with you all.  One part I didn't think about back then was the part played by Scots and their descendants all over the world and this has become a large part of the site.  In 2008 our Scottish schools will at last teach Scottish History to our children and I very much welcome this move.

We do get many contributions from our regular visitors be they articles, family biographies or pictures. We welcome all such contributions and we see ourselves as serving the world wide Scottish community to help them understand better the history of Scotland and the role played by Scots around the world.  The site is being left to the Scottish Studies Foundation of Toronto and so through them it will eventually reside at the McLaughlin Library computers at the University of Guelph and run by the Centre for Scottish Studies at that University. This will ensure that all our content is preserved for future generations to enjoy and learn from.

Alastair McIntyre, KCTJ, FSA Scot.

  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Electric Scotland web site (7:34)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Book section on Electric Scotland (7:03)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his ScotSearch site on Electric Scotland (5:49)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Tartan section on Electric Scotland (3:03)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Kids section on Electric Scotland (5:05)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Travel section on Electric Scotland (4:45)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his History section on Electric Scotland (7:56)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Clans section on Electric Scotland (9:13)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about The Flag section on Electric Scotland (8:31)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Calendar section on Electric Scotland (5:01)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about the Family Tree section on Electric Scotland (7:08)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Food & Drink section on Electric Scotland (5:43)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Newsletter section on Electric Scotland (5:14)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Scottish Trivia section on Electric Scotland (1:58)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Religion section on Electric Scotland (6:01)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Postcard section on Electric Scotland (4:14)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Music section on Electric Scotland (5:32)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Business section on Electric Scotland (5:24)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Genealogy section on Electric Scotland (6:54)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Lifestyle section on Electric Scotland (4:09)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Scottish News section on Electric Scotland (3:04)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his World section on Electric Scotland (7:09)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Burns section on Electric Scotland (4:13)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Humor section on Electric Scotland (3:28)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Contact Us section on Electric Scotland (5:21)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about Spelling on Electric Scotland (5:19)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Travel Journal on Electric Scotland (4:24)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Accommodation section on Electric Scotland (4:57)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Poetry & Stories section on Electric Scotland (4:48)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about Google Video and how to use it to send us videos (4:46)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Highlands section on Electric Scotland (4:22)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Castles section on Electric Scotland (2:33)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Haggis section on Electric Scotland (2:55)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Scots Regiments section on Electric Scotland (2:01)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Domestic Annals section on Electric Scotland (3:57)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Picture Tours section on Electric Scotland (5:11)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Historic Places section on Electric Scotland (2:40)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Mini Bios section on Electric Scotland (4:36)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Gazetteer section on Electric Scotland (5:32)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Famous Scots section on Electric Scotland (3:38)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Scots Language section on Electric Scotland (5:29)
  • Alastair McIntyre talks about his Scotland section on Electric Scotland (7:17)

Electric Scotland's Baronial Home

Click here to see our Baronial Home and the Electric Scotland Clan!