The family history books covering Jacob and John Scott, along with many of their descendants, have been digitized. This is a great resource if you are interested in your Scott family history. https://archive.org/details/jacobscott2 When you open archive.org to view the item, there is the opportunity to search within the book. Use the search icon to the…
The BYU Harold B. Lee Library holds the handwritten journal of John Scott (1811-1876). I have a scanned copy of this journal, below are the first few pages. Any members of the family who are interested in the full copy can contact me by leaving a comment on the site.
This document outlines the history of the house that was built by my ancestor, Jacob Scott, near Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the 1820s-30s. PDF file: History of Ebenezer Hall More information about this house: http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=14983
Occasionally I receive letters or e-mails from people who read my family history research online and are somehow related. A few weeks ago we got a letter from a woman in California who is related to John Scott, my third great grandfather. She shared an online source where one of John Scott’s wives writes of…
If ever there was a family that experienced the great New World epic of migration, nation-building, and religious pioneering, it was the Jacob and Sarah Scott family. From a modest home in Northern Ireland, their little band eventually traveled over much of Canada and the United States, changing with the times and making great history…
Work on the history of our Scott ancestors was largely carried out by the late Edith Colburn Scott, my grandfather’s sister-in-law. Her collaborative efforts have been published in the two volume History and Descendants of Jacob Scott – John Scott (1782-1996). The material on this page owes much of its content to Edith’s work. The earliest…
This is a paper I wrote for a history class at BYU taught by Dr. Rodney Bohac. The paper looks into the life of Isaac Russell, an early Mormon convert who brought my Scott ancestors into the Mormon Church. Includes complete footnote references of source materials used. Click here to open the MS Word file: Isaac…
