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                  Black communities

                  Centre for Racial Equality – Black History in Scotland: Black history in Scotland — CRER

                  African Heritage Centre Scotland: African Heritage Centre Scotland | Connecting African and Scottish Culture and Heritage (ahcscotland.co.uk)

                  Empire Museum – general history of diverse communities in Scotland: Empire Museum – Scottish museum of empire, slavery, colonialism and migration

                  Historic Environment Scotland – articles on Black History in Scotland: Black History Archives – Historic Environment Scotland Blog

                  Historic Environment Scotland – finding black women in Scottish history: How to Research Black Women from Scotland’s History (historicenvironment.scot)

                  National Records of Scotland blog by Rachael Lloyd on Malvina Wells: Voices from our Archives: Malvina Wells, c.1805 – 1887 – Open Book (nrscotland.gov.uk)

                  Colourful Heritage – with timeline of South East Asian and Muslim Heritage in Scotland: Home – Colourful Heritage

                  See also the Find Your Ancestor segment on enslaved African ancestry.

                  Belgian migrants

                  Glasgow Belgian Refugee database: Belgian refugees – online version.pdf (glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk) 

                  Asian communities

                  General tips on Asian Family History: BBC – Family History – Tracing your Asian roots in Britain 

                  Colourful heritage – Muslim and South East Asian heritage in Scotland: Home – Colourful Heritage 

                  Herman Rodrigues, photo project on Asian experience in Scotland: Festival Photography | Hermann Rodrigues 

                  Indian connections in graveyards, Edinburgh: Churches, graveyards and missionaries | The University of Edinburgh 

                  India in Edinburgh: India in Edinburgh | The University of Edinburgh 

                  Tape letters – preserving recorded messages from South East Asian migrants across Scotland: Tape Letters 

                  NLS India papers: India Papers | National Library of Scotland (nls.uk) 

                  The entry for colonial ancestors provides additional details on finding records relating to Scots connected with the British Empire and colonies.

                  Jewish communities

                  Scottish Jewish Archive Centre tips on genealogy, list of historic Jewish communities in Scotland and burial places: Family History & Genealogy – SJAC 

                  Scottish Jewish Cemetaries: S-J-C – Brought to you by Derek M. Tobias BSc (scottishjewishcemeteries.org) 

                  European Holocaust Research Infrastructure portal of archive collections

                  Roma, Scottish Travellers and Gypsy communities

                  Roma and Traveller Family History Society: Romany & Traveller Family History Society | Research your roots and learn about your heritage. (rtfhs.org.uk) 

                  On Scottish Traveller collections in Highland Folk Museum: Excavations in the museum store: Naken chaetrie | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (socantscot.org)

                  Index of Roma and Traveller historic collections held in the UK, created by Alison Chapman: Research into Roma, Gypsy and Traveller artefacts and records held in the UK by Alison Chapman – Issuu 

                  Article on history of showmen in Glasgow: Vinegarhill – Parkhead History 

                  Romano Lav, Glasgow: Who we are (romanolav.org)

                  Italian communities

                  Italian Scot Census article, Gloria Conti: CoffeeTime18.pdf (scottisharchives.org.uk) 

                  National Library of Scotland Italian Scot map: Family Portrait: the Scots-Italians 1890-1940 Map Viewer – Italians resident in Scotland in the 1930s (nls.uk) 

                  Demarco Archive: RICHARD DEMARCO: The Italian Connection – Investigating Richard Demarco’s Italian Connections (demarco-archive.ac.uk) 

                  Italo-Scottish Research Centre, University of Edinburgh: Italo-Scottish Research Cluster | The University of Edinburgh 

                  IRSC Archive – collected materials relating to the Italo-Scottish experience: ISRC Archive | Italo-Scottish Research Cluster (ed.ac.uk)