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There are a great many resources already available to those researchers wishing to trace their family tree or to find genealogical information on the web. The main ones for Porteous families are listed below.
As mentioned already, Porteous Associates – a family research group set up in 1976 with the aim of helping all researching the name – are extremely helpful. Their website details the history and background of the family, as well as providing contact details for representatives in different parts of the world. They act as a "clearing house" for researchers, seeking to find connections between "new" families and those on an existing database of over 10,000 individuals.
Their site contains information about how to obtain the book The Porteous Story by Barry Porteous, published by the Associates, as well as details of the five-yearly Porteous Reunion, the next of which will be held in September 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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It is also strongly recommended that new researchers with access to email subscribe to the Porteous lists at Rootsweb and GenForum, where information and requests for help are regularly being posted.
The Rootsweb mailing list is particularly useful for those seeking information regarding Porteous or Porteus family members in any place and at any time, as well as more general discussion about the history of the family.
The following links to general Porteous sites and those of family historians and researchers around the world may be of use to those searching specifically for more information about their own family, or the history of the Porteous name in general. More links leading to sites about well-known Porteous and Porteus family members, and other related Scottish clans and families, are provided on the next page.
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