Friday 16 August 2024

Scottish Indexes Conference on September 7th

The next Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) conference, the twenty-fifth, takes place online on September 7th, with the following talks already confirmed:

  • Catholicism at Traquair House – from locked doors to open doors by Margaret Fox
  • Searching for ancestors in The Royal Mail Archive by Susannah Coster, Archivist at The Postal Museum in London
  • Parochial Matters: parishes, districts and counties by Robert Urquhart
  • An introduction to the Forfeited Estates papers in the National Records of Scotland by Tessa Spencer, Head of Outreach and Learning at the National Records of Scotland.
  • Scottish Burghs and Trade Incorporations by Chris Paton
  • Criminal Ancestors: piecing together their story from a variety of sources by Emma Maxwell 

For further details, and to sign up (it's free!), please visit https://www.scottishindexes.com/conference.aspx


Chris

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