Back to your roots – with a little help
THIS INSIGHT into conditions endured by even better-off migrant Scots was written by one John Smith, a Scot sailing to a new life in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1880, his shipboard journal now preserved in the National Archives of Scotland. As a country we have famously exported many of our brightest and best across the globe over the past two or three centuries, yet records tracing the movements of individual migrants can prove scarce, making life difficult for the family historian. for more click here
