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.