Graham and Emma Maxwell's next free to attend Scottish Indexes Conference, the twenty-second, takes place on November 25th, with the following speakers (including yours truly), giving presentations:
Chris Paton, genealogist at Scotland's Greatest Story, will present Discover Scottish Civil Registration Records. This presentation will give an overview of Scottish civil registration records which are the basic building blocks of our Scottish family tree.
Lorna Steele-McGinn, Community Engagement Officer for the Highland Archive Service, will present Placenames. This presentation will look at some of the placenames in the Highlands & Islands where English, Gaelic and Norse come together with other languages to populate the maps with fascinating insights into our history and culture.
Kay Williams of The Past and Other Places will present The ‘peculiar position’ of housing the farm worker (1900-25). This talk will focus on the main systems for housing farm workers in different parts of lowland Scotland between 1900 and 1925.
Chris Fleet, Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland, will present Getting the best from the NLS maps website for family history research. This talk will initially provide an overview of how to find and view the most useful maps for family history research online. It will then cover some of the new maps, tools and resources that are now available, including new historic gazetteers, improved tools for tracing, saving and re-using features, new tools for printing and saving images, and for showing heights and elevations. It will also briefly cover researching changing parish and county boundaries in Scotland, and the Boundaries Viewer.
Caroline Brown, University Archivist at the University of Dundee, will present Medical Matters: discover the wealth of information that hospital and asylum records hold. This talk will take you into the world of 19th and 20th century medical records. Using hospital and asylum records from the University of Dundee Archives, Caroline will explain what fascinating stories they can reveal about your ancestors and the lives that they led.
Ashleigh Thompson, Records and Archives Officer at Edinburgh City Archives, will present Edinburgh City Archives. This presentation will focus on the most popular collections at Edinburgh City Archives and how we can use these for our research.
We will also have two hour-long Q&A sessions where you can ask a question on any Scottish genealogy topic.
It should be fun, I hope you can come along! Details on how top register for free are available at http://www.scottishindexes.com.
Chris
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