A Route to your Roots

Saturday 5 Sept 2009

A Family History Seminar 0900-3.10 at The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter day Saints,Albany Bank,36 Edinburgh Road,Dumfries

Workshops and lectures about THE DUMFRIES CHOLERA OUTBREAK and WALTER NEWALL THE ARCHITECT.

More info at www.family-history-seminar.freeola.com

Scottish Handwriting Courses

Having difficulty reading curly writing in deeds and testaments, then here are two courses starting over the next few months at Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities.
Both cover the period 1500-1700 and are weekly over ten weeks. Well worth while.

Prospect of a new Chief of Clan Gunn

Mr William Murray Gunn of Wick is considering applying to the Lord Lyon to become the first recognised Chief of Clan Gunn,since the death of Morrison Gunn in 1785. Hugh Peskett,the Scottish editor of Burke's Peerage has proved the line of descent.

Scotland's Genealogy - a new blog.

We find no vestige of a beginning,no prospect of an end.

James Hutton 1795

Welcome to 'Scotland's Genealogy' a new blog by Chris Halliday,amateur genealogist and enthusiast of Scotland's history.

New to blogging ,this will be a steep learning curve, but there is no time like the present so be patient.

Why 'Scotland's Genealogy' ? Well all the obvious domain names have gone; Scottish, Scots, as the popularity of Scottish genealogy increases. Will there soon be too many professional genealogists competing for business?

I look forward to hearing your comments and lets see where this will go.