We visit the Highlands and Islands in the wake of the 1921 census appearing on the official government website ScotlandsPeople (scotlandspeople.gov.uk) Despite teething troubles with this long-awaited debut, there was a tangible sense of relief that the most important resource for a generation of researchers made it online before Hogmanay.
This region of Scotland is defined as north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, taking in the historic counties of Argyll, Caithness, Inverness, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, and Sutherland, as well as the islands of Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides, or Western Isles.
Although ScotlandsPeople undoubtedly remains the most important resource for the likes of statutory registers and the census, a
