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History talks and events 1 - 7 May 2017

25/4/2017

Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 1 - 7 May 2017

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Tuesday, May 2 2017, 5 pm - 6 pm

William the Lion: Scotland's Forgotten King

Dr Alice Taylor

Venue: New Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh

National Records of Scotland

Despite being Scotland's longest-reigning king before the Union, William the Lion (1165-1214) has not caught the popular imagination. His reign is one of great highs and lows. His military invasion of northern England was, an ambitious campaign, that ended in his capture and imprisonment, and his king being temporarily placed under English overlordship. Yet his reign also saw some of the most important developments in the formation of royal government in medieval Scotland. This talk will introduce William, explain his significance, and also suggest why his reign is not so well known as one might expect. Dr Taylor is author of 'The Shape of State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290' (2016). Free, book via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-the-lion-scotlands-forgotten-king-tickets-33454616659?utm_term=eventname_text

Tuesday, May 2 2017, 6 pm - 7 pm

The costs and consequences of building brochs

John Barber

Venue: Teviot Lecture Theatre in the Archaeology Department, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Edinburgh

First Millenia Studies Group

Tuesday, May 2 2017, 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm

"The deidis latterwills and legacies" - lifting the veil on past lives

Margaret Fox

Venue: Lanthorn Community Education Complex, Kenilworth Rise, Livingston EH54 6JL

West Lothian Family History Society

Wednesday, May 3 2017, 7.30 pm

The life and times of a Bairn from Bainsford and AGM

Dr Sinclair

Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Dumbarton Road, Stirling

Central Scotland Family History Society

Thursday, May 4 2017, 7 pm

The Railway Atlas of Scotland - two hundred years of history

David Spaven

Venue: The 252 Memorial Hall, Betson Street, Markinch

Markinch Heritage Group

Free to members and £2 for non members

Thursday, May 4 2017, 7.30 pm

Robert Fortune of Kelloe, Plant Hunter, Adventurer and Spy

Isobel Gordon

Coldstream and District Local History Society

Friday, May 5 2017, 11 am or 12:15 pm

A Guided Tour: Scribes and Royal Authority: Scotland's Charters 1100-1250

Professor Dauvit Broun and Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow)

Venue: General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh

National Records of Scotland

For the first time precious examples from two of Scotland's most important collections of medieval charters are on show in National Records of Scotland. A special guided tour by guest curators, Professor Dauvit Broun and Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow), of the National Records of Scotland's exhibition 'Scribes and Royal Authority: Scotland's Charters 1100-1250', will reveal the significance of some of Scotland's oldest charters and the scribes who wrote them 800 years ago. Numbers are limited so book your place now!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-guided-tour-scribes-and-royal-authority-scotlands-charters-1100-1250-tickets-33520356288

Friday, May 5 2017, 11.00 am

The Flemish in Scotland

John Irvine

Venue: National Mining Memorial Centre, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Dalkeith EH22 4QN

National Mining Museum Scotland

Saturday, May 6 2017, 10 am - 4 pm

Unlocking the Tower

Venue: Bruce Crescent, opposite Citadel Place, Ayr, KA7 1JJ

Historic Environment Scotland

Join us for Unlocking the Tower, a free all day event to explore the unique history of St John’s Tower in Ayr. The day will be full of family-friendly activities, re-enactments and tours celebrating the tower’s heritage from historic graffiti to treasure hunts to laser scanning to virtual reality.
Join us throughout the day for...Treasure Hunt, Photography, Storytelling, Stone Rubbing + Grave Markers, Historical Graffiti, Laser Scanning, Tower Tours, Period Costumes, Soap Carving, Virtual Reality, Tale of a Scottish Tower: Meet the Author ...and more!
About St John's Tower
The Tower – the oldest building in Ayr – is the surviving fragment of the original 12th century parish church and has a unique and fascinating history. Oliver Cromwell constructed a fort on the site in the 1650s, and the church was commandeered as a store, mill house and chapel with the tower as an armoury and look-out. The church was pulled down in 1726 but the tower was retained as a navigation beacon.

Saturday, May 6 2017, 9 am - 4.30 pm

Agriculture and Teind Reform in Early Modern Scotland

Venue: The Studio, Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

The day conference, ‘Agriculture, Economy, and Society in Early Modern Scotland’, will examine the economic, social and cultural experiences of life in agrarian Scotland, c. 1500-1750, and will lead to the project’s second book – an edited collection of essays.
The day will be convened by by Professor T. C. Smout, Historiographer Royal in Scotland, with closing remarks and a final discussion hosted by Professor R. A. Houston.
Places are limited and registration is now open!
The day delegate rate is £30/£20 concessions.
Delegates must reserve their place in advance here
For further information see http://teinds.shca.ed.ac.uk/conference/

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Bug fixes to Scotland's People

20/4/2017

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The Scotland's People website was down for a couple of hours this morning, to allow the team to update the site. They've made a number of improvements, or rather fixes, to the search engine. Arguably these should have been in place when the site was relaunched in September last year, but after having regular meetings with the team behind the site over the last 6 months, we're a little more understanding of the difficulties they faced than perhaps we were at the time.

The announcement of the fixes reveals that two of the biggest grips Scottish genealogists have had with the new website have at least been fixed:

Marriage searches: finally it's now possible once again to search for a marriage using two surnames (one for the bride and one for the groom). This is a major improvement on the initial version of the revamped site, and one which genealogists will warmly welcome.
Marriage results: related to the marriage-search fix, marriage searches now show both parties' names on the results page. This is another big improvement on what went before, when you had to click on a link to get a pop-up showing the spouse's name. That was fine if there were only a few results of your search, but quickly became tedious if there were more than a few results.
Death searches: You can now search death records using an approximate birth year. This is another important change, making it far easier and a lot less hassle to find the death your looking for. We understand from our discussions with the National Records of Scotland that this was a particularly tricky problem to resolve, as the searches were behaving in unpredictable ways. This problem now appears to have been resolve successfully.
Search forms: The labels and column headings have been improved.
Return to image view: After reporting a problem with an image, you are returned to the image you were viewing at the time. A minor change, but any improvement in the page flow should be welcomed.
Divorce and dissolutions: A gender field has been added.

There are a couple of quirks arising from the changes. Marriage searches may produce duplicate entries - at first glance this seems to happen where one of the parties has alternative versions of her/his name. It's a fairly minor inconvenience, greatly outweighed by the new display of both parties' names. Perhaps of some concern is the National Records of Scotland's statement that "for the majority of searches this will have a successful result" - presumably this means that some searches may produce a false-negative (in other words, the system might tell you there isn't a match when there is one). A little more clarity on this statement would be welcome.

Another consequence of the multiple results for the same marriage is that sorting the search results by "spouse surname" doesn't quite behave as you might expect. We've not done enough testing on the new interface to be sure, but the new system appears to group all results for the same marriage together.

These are however minor quibbles. The changes introduced are a major improvement to search functionality, and we'd like to thank the team at NRS for their hard work in fixing bugs.

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12 signs your ancestors weren't married

18/4/2017

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It's a few months since we launched our Find the Father service, where we try to identify the father of children where he's not named on the child's birth or baptism entry. In that time, we've searched through literally thousands of baptisms, most of which noted both parents. However, many of these indicated in one way or another that the parents were not, in fact, married. Some of these are fairly obvious, but some are not so obvious, so we thought we'd list them.

Some phrases or markings in registers definitely show that the parents aren't married, while others may just be hinting as much. The following phrases/abbreviations are unambiguous:

Illegitimate (sometimes abbreviated to Illeg or Ill): usually written next to the child's name, but in some registers it's written next to the father's or mother's name.
Natural son/daughter: sometimes abbreviated to Nat son/daughter, Na: son/daughter, or NS/ND
Natural child: sometimes abbreviated to NC, although beware that this abbreviation is also used for non-communicant, i.e. someone who is not a member of the congregation.
Unlawful son/daughter: used in contrast to lawful son/daughter (meaning the parents are lawfully married)
John Smith and Mary Brown, unmarried.
Putative father: sometimes abbreviated to PF, indicating that this man is alleged to be the father, but may or may not have formally acknowledged as much.
Reputed father: sometimes abbreviated to RF, with the same implications as putative father.

Other phrases or markings are less clear - they may or may not indicate that the parents are unmarried:

Mother or grandparent sponsor: sponsors generally vouched that the children would be brought up "in the faith". In most cases, the father was sponsor, and when this is the case it's generally not specifically mentioned. You will sometimes find references in Kirk Session minutes to the Session agreeing to permit the mother to act as sponsor. However there may be other reasons why the mother (or some other adult) would be sponsor - the father may be absent, or dead, or a member of a different church - so this should only be treated as a hint that the parents were unmarried.
Baptised in front of the Session: some registers, particularly later registers, give the names of witnesses to the baptism, or state that the child was baptised "before the Congregation". You may find in such registers instances where the child was baptised before the Session. This is sometimes an indication that the parents were unmarried: again, Kirk Session minutes often contain references to children being brought to the Session house for baptism. Similarly, if the child was baptised at home, it might be an indication that the child was poorly, and was too unwell to be brought to church.
Father's name given in brackets: we've seen a number of registers where a few entries give the father's name in brackets. This may be an indication that the parents were not married, or it may simply mean that the father was not present - perhaps because he was working away from home at the time (we've noticed a number of such cases where the father was a mariner or seaman, and may well have been away at sea).
An alternative surname is given: the child is described as for instance James Anderson or McDonald: this would usually suggest the parents were unmarried, but there are other possible explanations.
The child's surname does not match the father's surname: some registers are ambiguous about the surnames of children, or simply do not give the child's surname. If however they do, and the child's surname doesn't match the father's, this is a strong indication that the parents were not married.

One important and unusual characteristic of Scots law which distinguishes it from English law is the concept of legitimisation. A child born out of wedlock whose parents subsequently marry becomes legitimate provided that his or her parents were free to marry at the time of his or her birth.

In the first twenty years of civil registration in Scotland, around 140,000 children were born with no father named on their birth certificates. Our initial research suggests that at least one in three of these fathers can be identified from various historical records. If you have an illegitimate Scottish ancestor in your family tree, why not try our no-win, no-fee Find the Father service to see if your ancestor is one of them?

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History talks and events 24-30 April 2017

18/4/2017

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 24 - 30 April 2017

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, April 24 2017, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

Mapping Broughton and its Environs

Chris Fleet

Venue: Drummond Community High School, Bellevue Place, Edinburgh

Broughton History Society

Non-members, £2.00.

Monday, April 24 2017, 7.30 pm

Redundant Churches; the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust

Simon Green, Historic Environment Scotland

Venue: Chapelhill Hall

West Stormont Historical Society

Monday, April 24 2017, 7.30 pm

Enlightenment and the Scots Novel

Dr Fred Freeman

Venue: Millennium Room, Cramond Kirk Hall

Cramond Heritage Trust

Monday, April 24 2017, 7.30 pm

AGM and Members' Night

Venue: St Andrews Church, Park Road, Milngavie

Milngavie and Bearsden Historical Society

Short talks to be arranged. £4 for non-members

Wednesday, April 26 2017, 7.30 pm

A Macmillan's a Macmillan by any other name

Graeme Mackenzie

Venue: Highland Archive Centre, Bught Park, Inverness

Highland Family History Society

Wednesday, April 26 2017, 7.30 pm

AGM

Venue: Old Gala House, Galashiels

Old Gala Club

Thursday, April 27 2017, 2 pm - 4 pm

Find Your Ain Folk Drop in Service

Venue: Community Room, Largs Library, Allanpark Street, Largs

North Ayrshire Family History Society

Thursday, April 27 2017, 7.30 pm

Making Tracks - Building Bridges

Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie

Kingussie Heritage Festival

An evening of illustrated heritage with live music and song. Come along and help celebrate the 140th birthday of the school and hear about the people who made tracks in education in Kingussie in 1876. Also help celebrate the 150th birthday of the Burgh of Kingussie and hear about the men who led the way in developing Kingussie into a town and police burgh in 1867.

Thursday, April 27 2017, 7.30 pm

Battle of Stirling 1648 : Have you heard of it?

Craig Mair

Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery

Stirling Local History Society

Preceded by AGM

Thursday, April 27 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Modern Pilgrims' Way

Sylvia Jenks

Venue: Glen Halls, Neilston

Barrhead & Neilston Historical Association

Thursday, April 27 2017, 7.45 pm

Members' night and AGM

Venue: Drymen Village Hall, Main Street, Drymen, Glasgow, G63 0BP

Drymen & District Local History Society

Short talks by members of the Society with wine and cheese followed by our short AGM

Saturday, April 29 2017

Society Excursion to Durham

The Heraldry Society of Scotland

Saturday, April 29 2017, 10.15 - 11.15 am

'He is a Scotchman which is a sort of passport to fortune': the remarkable story of the Dunachton Robertsons in Tasmania

Dr David Taylor

Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie

Kingussie Heritage Festival

In the 1820s four Robertson brothers from a small farm on Dunachton emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) as free settlers. Their pathway out of Badenoch proved to be the classic Scottish emigrant pathway to success. This tak uses the achievements of the Robertsons as a means of understanding how it was possible for relatively poor Highlanders to achieve a level of success down under that was simply not possible in their homeland.

Saturday, April 29 2017, 11.35 am - 12.35

Military mapping of Badenoch and environs, and its broadder contexts

Chris Fleet, NLS Map Library

Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie

Kingussie Heritage Festival

This fully illustrated talk will look at the Board of Ordnance and Wade mapping of Badenoch in the 18th century, looking at who created the maps, why, how we can interpret them, and their value today.

Saturday, April 29 2017, 12.35 - 1.15 pm

The Wild Braes of Badenoch: Anne Grant's Letters from the Mountains 1773-1807

Dr Lesley Mickel

Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie

Kingussie Heritage Festival

This talk will examine the chatty and informative letters written by Anne Grant of Laggan, showing how her reading of Romantic literature informed her experience and understanding of living in the Highlands.

Saturday, April 29 2017, 2 pm - 2.45 pm

The Other North

Dr Ian Blyth

Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie

Kingussie Heritage Festival

Ian will discuss his work on the 'edgelands' of the A9 corridor, and what we can learn through exploring these often neglected or marginal areas. He will discuss how our experiences of such spaces, and especially the role and presence of history and heritage, from an important part of our sense of place.

Saturday, April 29 2017, 2.45 - 3.30 pm

Heritage during the planning process of the A9

Aisling Mulcahey

Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie

Kingussie Heritage Festival

This talk will discuss how archaeological remains, and heritage in general, are identified and the best methods or either preservation or excavation and recording are decided. The different methods of recording the archaeology both before and during the road construction will be presented. The importance of publication and information to the public will be discussed.

Saturday, April 29 2017, 4 pm - 4.45 pm

A brief overview of the Kingussie area in prehistory

Adam Welfare

Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie

Kingussie Heritage Festival

This talk will focus on the key sites and monuments in the neighbourhood and what they have to tell us about life in the past.

Sunday, April 30 2017

Farm Servants of South-East Scotland, 1750-1914

David Mclean

Venue: Corn Exchange & Ormiston Institute, Market Square, Melrose, TD6 9PN

Borders Family History Society

David McLean spotlights the labourers, hinds and bondagers through the period of improvements in farming in the rich agricultural countryside of Berwickshire, East Lothian and Roxburghshire.

Sunday, April 30 2017, 9.30 am

Excursion to Glen Feshie

Venue: Talla nan Ross, King Street, Kingussie

Kingussie Heritage Festival

Led by David Taylor, Ian Moffett and Thomas MacDonnel to Glen Feshie, from where people emigrated to Tasmania, Australia and Canada. Meet at Talla nan Ross 9.30 am. Walk rated at medium level. Bring waterproof clothing, walking boots and packed lunch. No dogs please. Prebook on Saturday.

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History talks and events 17-23 April 2017

11/4/2017

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 17 - 23 April 2017

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Tuesday, April 18 2017, 7.30 pm

Customs & Excise in Leith in the 18th & early 19th century

Dr Eric Graham

Venue: Leith Community Education Centre in the New Kirkgate

Leith Local History Society

Wednesday, April 19 2017, 7.30 pm

AGM

Venue: Falkirk Trinity Church

Falkirk Local History Society

Wednesday, April 19 2017, 7.30 pm

AGM followed by Glasgow's Cartography; the Growth and Development of the City through its Maps

John Moore, Glasgow University Library

Venue: Best Western Eglinton Arms Hotel, Eaglesham

Eaglesham History Society

Non-members welcome, £3 on the door

Wednesday, April 19 2017, 7.30 pm

Jacobite Relics, Myths and Realities

George Dalgleish

Venue: Selkirk Parish Church Hall

Selkirkshire Antiquarian Society

Annual Membership £6 per year. Non member £2 per event. For enquiries about the meetings or the Antiquarian Society please contact Jamie McIntyre [email protected]

Thursday, April 20 2017

Open Mic Night

Venue: Portland Church hall

Troon & Ayrshire Family History Society

Thursday, April 20 2017, 2.30 pm

House History

Loretta Reynolds

Venue: Moulin Hall, Moulin

North Perthshire Family History Group

Visitors £3.00

Thursday, April 20 2017, 6.30 pm

A Tayside Abbey’s attitude to its charters: the cartulary of Lindores in Caprington Castle

Joanna Tucker

Venue: Sandeman Room, AK Bell Library

Friends of PKC Archives

£5 for non-members

Thursday, April 20 2017, 7.30

The History of Glasgow Police

Alistair Dinsmore

Venue: Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BA

Renfrewshire Family History Society

Thursday, April 20 2017, 7.30 pm

AGM and Musselburgh Links

Bill Wilson

Venue: Haddington Town House

Haddington's History Society

Thursday, April 20 2017, 7.30 pm

Thomas Telford in the Kyle of Sutherland

Susan Kruse - Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands

Venue: Brora Community Centre

Clyne Heritage Society

Thursday, April 20 2017, 7.30 pm

Robert Henryson

Morna Fleming

Venue: Abbey Church Hall, Abbey Park Place, Dunfermline

Dunfermline Historical Society

Visitors are charged a fee of £2.00 per meeting and are made very welcome.

Friday, April 21 2017, 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm

Kinmont Willie's Sword

Venue: Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, The Observatory, Rotchell Road, Dumfries, DG2 7SW

Dumfries and Galloway Museums and Galleries

Exhibition launch event. Hear the inside story of the discovery of Kinmont Willie's sword and the research undertaken to uncover its provenance. A short talk will be followed by refreshments and an opportunity to preview the exhibition The Sword in the Story. Free but pre-booking is required: please call 01387 253374 to book a place.

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History talks and events 10-16 April 2017

4/4/2017

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Upcoming family history talks and events in Scotland, 10 -16 April 2017

Note that there may be a small charge for some of these events, and some may be for members only. We will be publishing lists of upcoming talks and events regularly - if you are organising a talk or event relating to Scottish genealogy or history, please let us know and we will be happy to add your events to our list.

Monday, April 10 2017, 6 pm - 7 pm

Portmahomack on Tarbat Ness – barometer of European politics

Martin Carver

Venue: National Museum of Scotland

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Discoveries at Portmahomack in Easter Ross (1994 to 2008) were initially hailed as the first modern sighting of a Pictish monastery. The intensive period of post-excavation analysis that followed has defined six successive settlements on the same spot: a high status cemetery-settlement with contacts in Cumbria and Sussex (6/7th century), a purpose-built monastery with vellum and metal workshops and pieces from a dozen carved stone monuments (8th century), a trading farm (9th century), a parish church (12th century), a fishing village (13th century) and a township of iron workers (15th century). The publication of the results in 2016 advanced the idea that this sequence reflects contemporary political or ideological movements in wider Britain, Ireland and Europe.

Martin Carver was an army officer for 15 years, a free lance excavator for 12 years and a university professor at York for 21 years. He has founded archaeological companies in Birmingham and York, the latter (FAS-Heritage) being co-directors of the Tarbat project. Previous to Portmahomack he excavated at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk where he also proposed ideological change to explain the burials and assemblages. In collaboration with Alessandra Molinari (University of Rome) he has just launched the project Sicily in Transition which addresses similar research themes. Professor Carver presented the 2010 Rhind Lectures.

Monday, April 10 2017, 7.30 pm

Open Evening

Venue: Luncarty Church Centre

West Stormont Historical Society

Monday, April 10 2017, 7.30 pm

AGM & Communion tokens and Family History

James Slavin

Venue: Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow

Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society

Tuesday, April 11 2017, 6.45 pm for 7.15 pm

The Story of the Three Forth Bridges

Venue: Morningside Parish Church Hall

Morningside Heritage Association

Tuesday, April 11 2017, 7 pm for 7.30 pm

AGM followed by 1821: Murder in Montrose, Margaret is Convicted

Hilary White

Venue: Montrose Museum, Panmure Place, Montrose DD10 8HE

Montrose Natural History and Antiquarian Society

£3 for non-members

Tuesday, April 11 2017, 7.30 pm

The Union of the Parliaments

Dr I Matheson

Venue: Community Room, Largs Library, Allanpark Street, Largs

North Ayrshire Family History Society

Tuesday, April 11 2017, 7.30 pm

An 18th Century Fife Surgeon

Angela Montford

Venue: Volunteer House (Vonef Centre) in 69 Crossgate Cupar KY15 5AS

Fife Family History Society

Tuesday, April 11 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm

Burns and the Scottish Enlightenment

Dr Ralph McLean, National Library of Scotland

Venue: Masonic Halls, Collier Street, Johnstone

Johnstone Historical Society

Wednesday, April 12 2017, 6.30 pm

Excavation of Early Medieval Longhouses at Lair, Glenshee

David Strachan (Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust)

Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee

Abertay Historical Society

Wednesday, April 12 2017, 7 pm

Master Masons in Family History

Rosemary Garrod

Venue: Lasswade Centre Library, Lasswade High School

Lothians Family History Society

Old and new members welcome

Wednesday, April 12 2017, 7.30 pm

His Own Family Tree

Iain Abernethy

Venue: Public Library, Airds Crossing, Fort William

Lochaber and North Argyll Family History Group

Wednesday, April 12 2017, 7.30 pm

Memories and Memory

Anne Reid, Managing Director of Speaking Lives

Venue: Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Dumbarton Road, Stirling

Central Scotland Family History Society

Wednesday, April 12 2017, 7.30 pm - 8.30 pm

High Pasture Cave, Skye – Excavation results

Gemma Cruickshanks

Venue: Edinburgh Cine and Video Society, 23a Fettes Row, Edinburgh, EH3 6RH

Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society

Wednesday, April 12 2017, 7.45 pm

Martin Luther

Les McMahan

Venue: RAF Club, Ardgowan Square, Greenock

Inverclyde Historical Society

Thursday, April 13 2017

Social Evening

Venue: Loudoun Hall, Ayr

Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society

Thursday, April 13 2017, 7.30 pm

Life, Death and Miracles of St Magnus

Fran Hollinrake

Venue: St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall

Orkney Family History Society

All welcome, tea and biscuits.

Thursday, April 13 2017, 7.30 pm

AGM followed by The Heritage of Iran

Shabnam Komai-Koma

Venue: Concord Community Centre (next to the Denny Theatre), Dumbarton, G82 1LJ

Lennox Heritage Society

Shabnam is a urban designer and architectural designer with Iranian roots. Her illustrated talk covers some of Iran’s extraordinary architectural and historical heritage.

Thursday, April 13 2017, 7.30 pm

The Roman Assault of Brunswark Hill – a battle rehabilitated

John Reid, The Brunswark Hill Project

Venue: The Shawl Gallery, Paisley Museum, High Street, Paisley

Renfrewshire Local History Forum

Renfrewshire Local History Forum Lectures are open to non-members with no admission charge but a small donation would be appreciated.

Thursday, April 13 2017, 7.30 pm - 9.00 pm

TBC

Dane Love

Venue: Johnnie Walker Bond, Strand Street Kilmarnock

East Ayrshire Family History Society

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History talks and events 1 - 7 May 2017

Bug fixes to Scotland's People

12 signs your ancestors weren't married

History talks and events 24-30 April 2017

History talks and events 17-23 April 2017

History talks and events 10-16 April 2017

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