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‘Researching your Family History in Scotland’: Report and Video

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We have now released the videos of the first two recordings of the winter season talks which were held in October and November of last year. Following on from Lesley Whitwood’s talk last month on ‘Where have all the Churches gone?’, Helen Stewart presented a talk on the 20th November 2020, entitled ‘Researching your Family History in Scotland’.

Research has shown that every family has skeletons in their cupboard and black sheep in their family tree.  Helen showed how to find yours by illustrating the many resources available and discovering stories that may arise.

Helen showed you how to use “Ancestry” and “ScotlandsPeople” to search births, marriages, deaths, censuses and other records, indicating the range of information that is available and what to expect when you start to search. She touched on the rest of the UK and Ireland and take a brief look at the rest of the world as so many of us have ancestors who emigrated. Her talk included some suggestions for searching newspapers, gravestones and other useful websites, such as searching armed forces’ websites, and she gave some tips and advice.

Under an initiative launched by the Archives, Local & Family History section of Perth and Kinross Council, the Breadalbane Heritage Society in conjunction with the local Library Service in the Breadalbane Campus has been providing a service to assist and support those interested in researching their families.

If you wish to know more about this service, or if you have specific family history queries, please contact us using the form on the Contact page.

If you wish to view this video at a larger size, click on the ‘full screen’ button at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen above:

Where have all the Churches gone? Report and Video

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Video recordings of the first two talks of our Winter 2020 – 21 season which we recorded are now available to view.

The first one, ‘Where have all the Churches gone?’ was presented by Lesley Whitwood on Friday, 16th October, and takes a look at the history of many churches in the local upper Tay area from Dull to Strathtay which have been ‘lost’ and those which have survived, to discover what has happened to them and why.

If you wish to view this video at a larger size, click on the ‘full screen’ button at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen above:

The report and video of the second talk which we recorded can be found here: ‘Researching your Family History in Scotland‘

Winter Zoom Meetings: January to March 2021

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As our replacement for the normal winter season of public meetings held in the Breadalbane Campus in Aberfeldy, we are continuing with our successful foray into presenting a winter season of Zoom meetings and talks in 2021.

In September, Colin Liddell gave a talk on ‘Pitlochry in 3s’; in October, Lesley Whitwood asked the question ‘Where have all the churches gone?’ and last month, Helen Stewart presented a talk on ‘Researching your Family History in Scotland’.  These were all well attended with between 45 and 60 people viewing each of these online presentations.

We are continuing this series of Zoom talks with:

  • a Quiz Night on Friday, 15th January.  This will be a fun and informative evening to brighten up January blues, including questions on the history, archaeology, antiquities, folklore and natural history of Breadalbane and beyond, providing opportunities to gain more knowledge of these topics;
  • on Friday, 19th February, a talk on ‘The Roman Army in Perthshire’ will be presented by Jim Walker.  Jim presented an excellent talk on the Antonine Wall to the Society last year and is now returning to tell us about camps, forts, fortlets and signal stations established and used by the Roman army in Perthshire during the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D.
  • ‘Aberfeldy Past and Present’, a talk by Tommy Pringle on Friday, 19th March.  Tommy will be presenting a series of photographs taken over the last 150 years showing changes to buildings in Aberfeldy starting in Kenmore Street and working along to the Distillery.  This follows on from a series of photos taken by Alan Proud.

These talks are free to attend.  To register your interest, or if you have any queries on the above, please send an email to Ian Stewart at bhsaberfeldy@gmail.com.  A few days before each meeting, Ian will email you the Zoom joining details.

November Zoom Talk on Friday evening

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Just a reminder that our next Zoom talk takes place this Friday, 20th November, at 7.30 p.m. when Helen Stewart will be talking about “Researching your Family History in Scotland“.

Helen will show you how to use “Ancestry” and “ScotlandsPeople” to search births, marriages, deaths, censuses and other records, indicating the range of information that is available and what to expect when you start to search.

She will touch on the rest of the UK and Ireland and take a brief look at the rest of the world as so many of us have ancestors who emigrated.

Her talk will include some suggestions for searching newspapers, gravestones and other useful websites, such as searching armed forces’ websites, and she will give you some tips and advice.

For joining details, or for further information, please contact Ian Stewart at bhsaberfeldy@gmail.com.