This year’s Annual Members’ Meeting was held online on Friday, 19th March, 2021 at 7.00 p.m. This was attended by 38 members of the Society. The minutes of the meeting, along with the associated papers and a video recording of the meeting can be viewed on this page of the website: Annual Members’ Meetings (from 2020)
The video recording of the meeting can be viewed below:
A chance to attend the last Zoom online talk of our 2020-21 winter season with what is proving to be a very popular event with 75 people having already expressed an interest in joining in on Friday evening.
Tommy will be using archive photographs and postcards to illustrate the range of shops and garages and other buildings that once graced the streets of Aberfeldy and have now been replaced or had a change of use.
If you wish to attend, please send Ian Stewart an email at bhsaberfeldy@gmail.com, and he will send you the joining details.
Last month, we held our most successful online Zoom talk of this unusual Covid-affected Winter season. Jim Walker, past president of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, presented an excellent talk on the Antonine Wall to the Society in 2019 and returned in February to tell us about camps, forts, fortlets and signal stations established and used by the Roman army in Perthshire in different, planned military campaigns during the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D.
The subject of this lecture and its relevance to Perthshire attracted the largest audience we have had during this online series, with 110 of the 124 people who expressed an interest in the talk attending on the night, including one in Australia and another in California! With partners watching from the same address, we estimate that over 130 people watched this informative and entertaining talk.
Two versions of the recording of the talk are available to view. The first is approximately one hour long and contains just the talk. The second includes an additional subsequent 30-minute Q&A session providing further supplementary information. Both of these videos can be viewed below:
If you wish to view these videos at a larger size, click on the ‘full screen’ button at the bottom right-hand corner of the images above:
On Friday, January 15th, we continued our winter season of online Zoom presentations with a very enjoyable quiz on the Breadalbane area compiled by four of our members; Lesley Whitwood, Fran Gillespie, Neil Hooper and Andy Walker. This was well attended and although this was a non-competitive (without any prizes), fun and educational evening, the kudos of achieving the top mark, somewhere in the 50 to 60 band out of a possible 70, went to Bill Hoare.
The quiz topics in six rounds ranged from natural history, through folklore and archaeology, to general history of the Breadalbane area. If you fancy trying to test your own knowledge of this area, then you can watch the video by clicking on the ‘play’ icon (white triangle at bottom left) on the image below. The answers and scoring points relevant to each question in each round are given at the end of each round.
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:
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:
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:
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.
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