Yesterday I had the great pleasure to meet up with fellow members of the Scottish Genealogy Network (http://scottishgenealogynetwork.blogspot.com) for the first time in almost four years, with thirteen hardy souls meeting up for the first of two meetings over the next two months in which members hope to get back into the swing of things in terms of our in-person genealogical networking. It was an immense success, with five of us still there talking eight hours after we started - there was a certainly lot of catching up to be done that was well and truly caught up on!
The SGN members come from various places in Scotland's professional genealogy community, including members from the Association of Professional Genealogists and ASGRA, and others not in any organisation, as well as those who may have recently retired from the profession. In addition we have members from associated disicplines such as university tutors, ancestral tourism operators, librarians/archivists, and more. Its success over the last ten years has come from its sheer informality - there are no membership fees, no certification programmes, it's simply a talking shop for like-minded folk to get together from time to time to discuss recent developments that may impact on our work as professional genealogists. In the past we have organised occasional visits to archives and libraries, and even the occasional CPD event.
The SGN also has a private members group on Facebook, allowing us to continue to network between meetings - about the only rules we have are that the network is open to people based in Scotland, and that access to the Facebook group page is only permitted after attendance at a meeting.
The next SGN meeting will be on Saturday, March 4th 2023 in Edinburgh, venue TBC. If you work in the professional genealogy world in Scotland, and are based here, we'd love to see you - pencil the date in for now!
The only down side was the complete failure of my Type 40 time capsule at the end of the evening (I should never have parked it on Buchanan Street!), but the trains were running, so all was well... :)
Chris
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