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          <rev user="Scottishadmin" timestamp="2014-01-23T17:25:54Z" comment="" contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">Welcome to the database of the AHRC-funded Anglo-Scottish Migration project. 
This site is intended to serve as a resource for local historians, genealogists and academics to gather biographical details about the migratory movement of men and women between Scotland and England in the 17th and 18th centuries.

To search for an existing entry, please use the search box to the left. The search function also picks up words within entries, so locations, professions and other information can also be searched for. 
To add a new listing click on the link below:


http://wiki.angloscottishmigration.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/Form:Template2

Click here for a list of people by surname:

[[Listings]]

Any questions or comments regarding the database, or about the Anglo-Scottish Migration project more generally, can be addressed to Dr Allan Kennedy (allan.kennedy@manchester.ac.uk).</rev>
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