Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775: The People of the Hebrides. Volume 2 - Paperbackby David Dobson (Compiled by) The Hebrides are those islands lying off the coast of the Western Highlands of Scotland. They form parts of the counties of Ross and Cromarty, Inverness, and Argyll, and contain thirty six parishes. Genealogical research in this region can be challenging because the parish registers, which are the backbone of Scottish genealogical research, only exist for about a quarter of the Hebridean parishes before 1800 and then only