So the big news that I have been sitting on for a bit is that I am going to be one of the instructors at the International Society of British Genealogy and Family History's British Institute in Salt Lake City in October 2025, teaching twenty hours on Scottish family history research. It's going to be a great week, with my pal Paul Milner covering England, and my fellow Norn Iron chums Gillian Hunt and Fintan Mullen, from the Ulster Histoical Foundation, covering Ireland. I'm firmly convinced that everyone will have an Ulster accent at the end of the week, just as the good Lord intended...! My week long programme is provisionally entitled Feudalism, Foes, and Fornication: Tracing Your Family History in Scotland, covering all of those topics and everything in between!
I've previously taught at one British Institute for the ISBGFH in 2021, covering Ireland, but this had to be switched to a virtual event due to Covid, so I am finally looking forward to getting to to Salt Lake City again! I've only been there once before - in 1999, when I had a day off whilst filming on a Scottish Television series (called Celtic America), and in the year before I started taking an interest in family history.
I'm looking forward to getting to the Family History Library at long last, and to catching up with many folk, not least Megan Croll Heyl who has been patiently keeping us all on track over the last few years!
It's going to be great craic! In the meantime, for details on this year's British Institute, please visit https://isbgfh.com/bi/. Once the registration page is live for our event in 2025, I'll blog an update.
And keep an eye out next January for a talk I'll be giving for the ISBGFH online, more on that soon!
Chris
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