My talk: Scottish Burgh and Trade Incorporation Records

That was another great day with the Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) team at their third conference, a wonderfully international affair with contributions from the US, Canada, Australia and Scotland. The good news is there will be another conference coming soon on July 11th, keep and eye out on Emma's and Graham's site at www.scottishindexes.com for further news soon, it sounds like there will be a lot more great talks on the horizon!

In the conference today I offered a copy of my latest book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, as a prize for whoever came up with the best question, as decided by yours truly. The winner of that is Anne Buchanan, who following Tahitia McCabe's excellent talk on referencing asked: "A cheeky question! Can one of the genealogists let us see examples of their notes when compiling a family tree, how do they take notes, is it handwritten, is the tree on paper, online, do they go back and forward to different family members?"

That question wins for the simple reason that I could see the look of fear that question generated in all my fellow panellists' eyes as it was read out! Speaking personally, believe me, you do not want to see my notes as an exemplar - I can only describe my personal route to generating research reports as being somewhat 'scenic'...! lol :) So well done Anne, a cheeky question wins a cheeky book!

If you missed my talk, you can see it below or at https://youtu.be/MoeMt-ButRc for the next week or so.

If you are interested in my latest book, it is available from https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Scottish-Family-History-on-the-Internet-Paperback/p/17717, and if interested in joining the latest Scottish Research Online course, which started today, please do visit https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102.

(With thanks to Graham and Emma Maxwell)

Chris

My next 5 week Scottish Research Online course starts June 8th - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. My next book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is out shortly, also available are 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.