Welcome to the Spring 2020 Highland Archive Service newsletter. At the time of writing we are, as many of you will be, working from home and adjusting to a different way of living and delivering our services as all of our archive centres are temporarily closed due to COVID-19. Over the coming weeks and months, in addition to remotely responding to enquiries and continuing our Family History research service, we will be creating digital resource packs for parents teaching from home, putting together resources for older people and delivering some live chats on Facebook to keep our community together in these unusual times. If you work in a Care Home, or are supporting a vulnerable person please let us know if we can provide resources. We'll also be sharing regular posts on Twitter and Facebook giving an insight into all the things our staff are working on in their hastily-created home offices! In addition, those of us who are able will be volunteering with the Highland Council to help deliver essential services and provide support to our communities where it is needed most.
As you know, we are in the midst of a global pandemic and people's lives are changing like never before. The Highland Archive Service is putting out a call for people living in the Highlands to keep diaries of their daily experiences and the impact on their family/work/life. Over the coming months we would be love to add your diaries to our collections so they can form part of the Highlands' collective memory going forwards.
For the full newsletter visit https://mailchi.mp/highlifehighland/highland-archive-service-1095129?e=36f4314bac
I suggested something similar a couple of weeks ago (see https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/03/documenting-present.html), and have regularly been keeping a diary since then (indeed, this blog is fulfilling a similar function from a genealogy perspective).
As much as we need to survive the present, we are also witnesses to history - what we record today will inform the future.
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.
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