Free to access Scottish Indexes virtual genealogy conference this Thursday 9th

Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) will be hosting a free to access virtual conference this week on Thursday 9th April 2020. In the original announcement of the schedule, the presentation times are given in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), but I have reproduced the schedule in this post with the times as currently noted here in Scotland and elsewhere in the UK and Ireland (according to British Summer Time).

Note that the programme is effectively being run twice during the day to cater for different worldwide timezones. For overseas readers, the original times in UTC can be found at the Scottish Indexes Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/scottishindexes/.

● Most presentations will be followed by a live Q&A with our expert genealogists.
● This event is free, to donate please go to www.scottishindexes.com
● To access this event please join our Facebook Group
(www.facebook.com/groups/scottishindexes) or see www.scottishindexes.com

Programme

07.00 BST Welcome by Emma Maxwell, genealogist at www.scottishindexes.com
07:15 BST Absolute Beginners by Anne Henry of Warthog Genealogy
07:45 BST Discover Scottish Civil Registration Records by Chris Paton of
www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk
09:00 BST Understanding Scottish Census Records by Emma Maxwell of Scottish
Indexes.
09:45 BST Scottish Family History resources on FindMyPast by Myko Clelland,
genealogist at FindMyPast .
11:00 BST Genealogy Q & A hosted by Graham and Emma Maxwell, genealogists at
www.scottishindexes.com
11:30 BST Where is it? by Jane Harris of Janealogy

11:50 BST Scottish Mental Health Records, an introduction by Emma Maxwell.
12:10 BST Records of the Kelso Dispensary by Andrew Armstrong of Relatively
Scottish .
12:30 BST Using Facebook for Genealogy by Clare Wilson of Treehouse Genealogy .
13:00 BST Scottish Prison Records by Emma Maxwell.
13:45 BST An Introduction to the Register of Deeds by Emma Maxwell.

Second Session

14:00 BST Welcome to Second Session, by Emma Maxwell, genealogist at
www.scottishindexes.com
14:15 BST Absolute Beginners by Anne Henry of Warthog Genealogy .
14:45 BST Discover Scottish Civil Registration Records by Chris Paton of
www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk .

Break

( FindMyPast will be live on Facebook of you need more genealogy)

17:00 BST Welcome by Emma Maxwell.
17:15 BST Understanding Scottish Census Records by Emma Maxwell of Scottish
Indexes .
18:00 BST Scottish Family History resources on FindMyPast by Myko Clelland,
genealogist at FindMyPast .
19:15 BST Genealogy Q & A hosted by Graham and Emma Maxwell, genealogists at
www.scottishindexes.com .
19:45 BST Where is it? by Jane Harris of Janealogy .
20:05 BST Scottish Mental Health Records, an introduction by Emma Maxwell.
20:25 BST Records of the Kelso Dispensary by Andrew Armstrong of Relatively
Scottish.

As noted I have contributed a talk, Discover Scottish Civil Registration Records, which can be heard at 7.45am and again at 2.45pm. There is considerably more on this topic in my latest book Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - and believe me, ScotlandsPeople is only the start of the story!

Should be a fun day!

Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.