This is a basic search tool that uses Google’s technologies to help find material on our website. In most cases should help to identify the correct volume, transactions and other articles in a PDF but not the exact page, however. That is a limitation of the PDF format. Note also that all the volumes were OCR scanned in a batch in around 2018 and some of the text was incorrectly recognised, which the search engine is unable to fix but can fuzzy match.
Search Notes
A direct link to our Google Custom Search Engine is here if you using Advert Blocking software.
To retrieve transactions volumes with articles on e.g. ‘East Barns’ or the ‘Friendly Society of Free Gardeners’, or ‘Ice Houses’ in East Lothian you can use the following:-
filetype:pdf "free gardeners" or filetype:pdf "ice houses" etc.
This will restrict the search to the PDF file type and the quotes will restrict the search to an exact match.
If nothing is found relax the search criteria, but if you find that you get too many results tighten them, by using quotes or qualifying your search with a negative sign e.g.
gilmerton -"walled garden"
[Nota Bene — ELAFNS do not control the quality of the adverts, nor do they make any money from them]
The Fourth Statistical Account can be searched separately. We have also created a new experimental search tool that covers the East Lothian history societies, at least the active ones, and of course the compendious resources of the John Gray Centre Archive.