FindmyPast adds Coastguard and naval records

FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has added the following naval and coastguard recordss this week:

Coastguards 1801-1952
Records on Coastguards between 1801 and 1952, with 212,426 images and transcripts.

British Royal Navy and Royal Marines Service and Pension Records 1704-1939
101,555 transcriptions have been added to the collection.

Women's Royal Naval Service Officer Records
59,448 Women's Royal Naval Service Officer records added to existing transcripts.

 
Further details at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/womens-navy-coastguard-records

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

ScotlandsPeople updates Scottish Women's Land Army collection

The ScotlandsPeople Scottish Women's Land Army collection includes the surviving index cards of the Scottish Women's Land Army and Timber Corps from 1939 to 1950. However, the collection also has an online barrier to access, with a closure period for those born less than one hundred years ago. 

As part of its recent update, the site has now added more than 2000 records for women born in 1923 who served. You can search the collection at https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/advanced-search/employment-records/scottish-womens-land-army/swla#form (you need to be signed in).

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

ScotlandsPeople adds Women's Land Army and Timber Corps 1939-1950 index cards

From ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk):

Scottish Women's Land Army records. Get digging!

To commemorate Remembrance Day, this newsletter explores the service of the Scottish Women’s Land Army and the Women’s Timber Corps. 

These women played a vital role in the war effort, replacing men who had joined the forces during the Second World War. They contributed to the production of food and kept vital industries supplied with timber during the  war and its immediate aftermath.

Nearly 10,000 index cards for those who joined the Land Army and Timber Corps from 1939 to 1950 are now available for the first time on ScotlandsPeople. These records will help you trace an individual's service history and learn about the work of the Land Army and Timber Corps.

These records will be of particular interest to family historians hoping to learn more about the role their relatives played in the Second World War. Each card can give insight into the training given to new recruits, where they worked and reveal why they left their post. The records are currently available for those members who were born in 1922 and earlier.

Comment: To access the records visit the Employment Records section - or go directly to https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/advanced-search/employment-records/scottish-womens-land-army/swla#form

For the full news release visit https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2023/land-girls-records-released-online

Note that these are index records, with an example below - the original service records themselves have not survived.

(With thanks to ScotlandsPeople via email)

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

WW2 - English and Welsh Women's Land Army cards added to Ancestry

Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has added a new collection for the Second World War: 

UK, World War II Women's Land Army Index Cards, 1939-1948
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62020/
Source: MAF 421: Ministry of Food: Women's Land Army: Index to Service Records of the Second World War. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives.

General Collection Information

This collection contains records of employment for those who served in the Women’s Land Army (WLA) from 1939 to 1948. The Women’s Land Army was established to help the country boost its wartime food production. Records in this collection consist of index cards to Second World War service records and are usually handwritten and are organised alphabetically by last name.

Using this Collection

This collection includes the following details:

    Name
    Any known aliases, including maiden names
    Address
    Employment county
    Employment place
    Birthdate
    Age at enrollment
    Date of enrollment
    Occupation
    Date of employment
    Date of release
    WLA membership number


Comment: This is a collection for folk who worked in England and Wales, rather than in Scotland, but there are some Scots and Northern Irish folk listed as working down south, but with a noted residential address back home. TNA have produced a short guide at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/womens-land-army-index-cards-online-at-ancestry/.

Various records for the equivalent Scottish Women's Land Army are held at the National Records of Scotland, such as those for the Timber Corps, catalogued under AF59/285/1, and further Women's Land Army index cards for service records at AF59/285/1. From the NRS catalogue:

AF59/285/1 (Women's Land Army: Timber Corps)
"Index cards to service record files, arranged alphabetically. The cards give the name, address, date of birth, enrolment number, dates of interview and enrolment, dates and locations of training and employment, date and reason for leaving, and any comments. [The service record files have not survived.]"

AF59/285/2 (Women's Land Army)
"The cards give the name, address, date of birth, enrolment number, dates of interview and enrolment, dates and locations of training and employment, date and reason for leaving, and any comments. [3 of the service files have been preserved at NRS (refs: AF59/245, AF59/246, and AF59/247) but the remainder have not survived.]"

Check the NRS catalogue for further details at www.nrscotland.gov.uk.

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Ancestry releases First World War Women's Royal Navy Service records

Now on Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk):

UK, Women’s Royal Naval Officers' Service Records, 1917-1919
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62354/

About UK, Women’s Royal Naval Officers' Service Records, 1917-1919

This collection contains records for those who served in the Women's Royal Navy Service (WRNS) from 1917-1920. Most records are handwritten in English on pre-printed forms. Types of records in this collection may include:
Application forms
Enrollment forms
Certificates of identification
Officer's forms

Using this collection

Records in the collection may include the following information:
Name, including maiden name if married
Rank
Birthplace
Birth date
Age
Date and place of enlistment
Date and place of discharge
Nationality
Residence
Marital status
Physical description
Regiment
Unit
Names of family members
Relationships to next of kin
Addresses of next of kin

There's also a bit on the set-up of the WRNS:

The Women's Royal Navy Service was created in 1917 in order to reserve men for seafaring roles. Members of the WRNS (affectionately called "the Wrens") were instead employed in a variety of non-combat roles to aid the war effort. Initial support roles available to the WRNS were primarily domestic (such as cooking and cleaning), but WRNS also served as clerks, telegraphists, mechanics, electricians, weapons analysts, and radar plotters.

The Wrens were disbanded in 1919 after the end of the First World War. Over 5,000 women were Wrens during the course of the war, which was particularly remarkable as the initial recruitment goal was only 3,000 women. The WRNS was reformed in 1939 to aid the British effort during the Second World War. The WRNS would fully disband in 1993 when women were integrated into the Royal Navy.

Chris 

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Women’s History Scotland Essay Prize

From Women's History Scotland (http://womenshistoryscotland.org):

Women’s History Scotland Essay Prize

NEW PRIZE! NEW RULES!

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS ON ANY ASPECT OF WOMEN’S OR GENDER HISTORY!

Women’s History Scotland awards the Leah Leneman Prize for an essay on an aspect of women’s or gender history, focused on any time period and geographical area.

The prize was established in 2002 to celebrate the work of Leah Leneman, one of the foremost historians of women in Scotland. A trailblazer for women’s history in Scotland, she produced innovative studies on the women’s suffrage movement, on women in medicine, and on sexuality and divorce in the early modern and modern periods.

Forms of work that may be submitted include: undergraduate dissertation, postgraduate work (e.g. Masters dissertation or chapter of PhD), a piece of original research by students or independent scholars.

Further details, eligibility and instructions for preparation at the bottom of this page

Deadline: Monday, 20 December 2021.

Further details at http://womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and-activities/whs-essay-prize/

Chris

My new book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records is now available to buy at https://bit.ly/IrishLandRecords. Also available - Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Oral History of Port Glasgow Women presentations

This might be of interest to those with an interest in the women of Port Glasgow's shipbuilding community:

Fieldwork & Creative Engagement: Oral History of Port Glasgow Women
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 14:00-16:30.
Online, via Zoom.
Free, but ticketed via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/157935676861

Our two presentations are rooted in the lived experience of women in the shipbuilding communities of Port Glasgow, recordings of which are held in our collection. Through our presenters' fieldwork - undertaken almost 30 years apart - we see the importance of fieldwork, the collection and preservation of oral history recordings. It is from this perspective we will explore the value in creative reuse of archive recordings.

After the presentations we shall have a short break, followed by a chaired question-and-answer session with our presenters. Participants are encouraged to submit questions in the chat facility during the papers and the break.

This session is open to anyone who wishes to attend and those with a particular interest in collecting, researching, or creating with oral history recordings. Please register for the event via the link to Eventbrite (above). Joining instructions will be sent with your ticket.

Speakers:

Dr Hugh Hagan, Head of Public Records Act Implementation at the National Records of Scotland, is passionate about the shipbuilding communities of Port Glasgow and Greenock on the lower reaches of the River Clyde, particularly in the inter-war period. These towns, being removed by some distance from the large and diverse economy of Glasgow, depended entirely on shipbuilding and they developed a very particular sense of community. This was the subject of his PhD research at the School of Scottish Studies in the 1990s and he will draw on that research, specifically the role of women in these communities, in his talk.

Martine Robertson and Hannah Wood, of GaelGal Productions, were undertaking studies at the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, when they attended a lecture by Hugh Hagan about his Port Glasgow work. They were galvanised to revisit this fieldwork, recording new material with the family of Cassie Graham, one of Hugh's contributors. They have also been inspired to take these stories to centre stage, lifting the voices and experience of women of the Port Glasgow community and using these recordings in their creative practice. The presentation at this event is but one postcard-sized venture into their ongoing creative piece, What A Voice.

For more information and to register for the event, please follow the link to book on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/157935676861. If you have any questions, please contact scottish.studies.archives@ed.ac.uk

(With thanks to Kirsty M Stewart / Ciorstag Stiùbhart, New College Collections Curator and Archivist, School of Scottish Studies Library and University Collections, University of Edinburgh)

Chris

Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as 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.

Two new exhibitions at the National Library of Scotland

There are two new exhibitions commencing at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh (www.nls.uk):

Petticoats and Pinnacles: Scotland's pioneering mountain women

This exhibition reveals how women have overcome physical and social barriers to spend time in the mountains — not only as climbers but as writers, artists and leaders.

This exhibition will run from 10 July 2021 to 28 May 2022.

Further details at https://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/petticoats-and-pinnacles/


The Eye of a Stranger: Henrietta Liston's travels

This exhibition tells the story of Henrietta Liston's travels in the Ottoman Empire. Henrietta and her husband, the Scottish diplomat Robert Liston, lived at the British Embassy in Constantinople (Istanbul) between the years 1812 and 1820.

The exhibition will run from 10 July to 6 November 2021.

Further details at https://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/henrietta-liston/

 

For information about visiting the NLS please visit https://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/visit/

Chris

Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as 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.

BIFHSGO 2021 Virtual Conference - Irish Lines and Female Finds

Frm the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (https://bifhsgo.ca): 

BIFHSGO 2021 Virtual Conference
19–26 September 2021

Irish Lines and Female Finds: Exploring Irish records, female ancestors and genetic genealogy

Speakers: Mia Bennett / Gerard Corcoran / Martin Curley / Brian Donovan / Dr. Janet Few / Mags Gaulden / Dr. Edmund Gilbert / Maurice Gleeson / Roz McCutcheon / Mark McGowan / Chris Paton / Gena Philibert-Ortega / Dr. Jim Ryan / Kyla Ubbink

The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) is pleased to announce its 26th annual family history conference, to be held virtually from 19 to 26 September 2021. Fourteendistinguished international speakers, all experts in their own fields, are featured in 15 presentations over 8 days.

The themes of Irish records, female ancestors and genetic genealogy will be integrated into a range of presentations, including new Irish records, finding female ancestors in archives, the Irish diaspora, DNA in Irish ancestors, researching marginalized women, Irish famine orphans in Canada, and much more.

This year’s conference will also feature a virtual Gathering Place (formerly the Marketplace), where you may make contact with organizations offering products to help your research.

Whether you are brand new to genealogy or a seasoned family historian, this information-filled event will offer opportunities to further your research skills and will inspire you to continue your family history journey. Wherever you are in the world, if you have a good internet connection, you can register and attend our virtual conference.

“We hope you will be as excited by the topics chosen as we are, and that you will come away with great new research paths to explore,” said BIFHSGO President Duncan Monkhouse.

The C$45 conference registration fee includes access to all 15 presentations as well as access to the presentation videos and handouts for two weeks after the conference concludes. Visit our websitefor a full speaker lineup and program details and follow us on FacebookandTwitter.

Register now for BIFHSGO’s virtual conference!

To register, visit https://bifhsgo2021.ca. 

(NB: The full conference programme is outlined at https://bifhsgo2021.ca/program/)

COMMENT: It's been a wee while since I last spoke at a BIFHSGO event, so I am looking forward to this immensely! The following are details of the talk I will be giving on Saturday 25th September 2021:

12:00 – 13:30 Church and State: Ireland’s Vital Records (All levels) with Chris Paton

In this session Chris will explore how to locate ancestors in Ireland using the civil registration records of births, marriages and deaths from 1845 and 1864 onwards, both online and in Ireland itself, as held at both the GROI in Roscommon and the GRONI in Belfast. It will examine what the records contain, how they may assist with research, and how they may be located online and offline via the platforms of the respective General Register Offices and government platforms, north and south. Chris will then look at the various church denominations in Ireland, how they were structured, and the types of records they kept. He will explain how to locate surviving material, to equally identify what has not survived (and why), and to understand where Protestant and Catholic Ireland occasionally overlapped, with the role of the Church of Ireland as the state church. Where gaps in such records exist, Chris will discuss how other sources may be able to provide alternative information to plug those gaps, including resources in Britain.

Should be fun!

(With thanks to Susan Courage)

Chris 

Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as 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.

Glasgow Women's Library plans phased re-opening from September 1st

From the Glasgow Women's Library (https://womenslibrary.org.uk)

Since the closure of the GWL building on 19th March due to Covid-19, all GWL Staff Team members have been working from home to rethink and reshape our events and activities into digital formats, continue to support our volunteers and Adult Literacy learners, and work together as a team, with our Board of Directors, to plan as far as we can for the future.

While we can’t wait to be able to welcome you back to our beautiful building, the safety and wellbeing of our staff, volunteers and visitors must be our top priority, and there is a lot of work involved in preparing to re-open.

We will therefore re-open GWL to the public in phases, with the first phase starting on 1st September.

During this phase, there may be limits on days or hours of opening, visitor numbers, and access to some parts of the building. Access to the lending library collection will be via a pre-reserve / ‘click and collect’ system, while access to the archive and museum collections may still not be possible during this phase. We do not anticipate hosting any public events in the building for the rest of this year, but will continue to offer online events. We will of course review the situation throughout this period, and we will always make sure that visitors are given the special GWL warm welcome regardless.

In the meantime, some GWL team members will be on-site throughout July and August, working to implement safety and hygiene measures, and creating workable systems and spaces for everyone.

For further details read the full post at https://womenslibrary.org.uk/2020/07/08/our-phased-approach-to-re-opening-gwl/

(With thanks to @womenslibrary via Twitter)

Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers course starts July 6th - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. My next book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is now out, 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.

NHS Scotland emergency hospital to be named after Louisa Jordan

The proposed emergency hospital to be created at the Scottish Exhibition Centre by NHS Scotland is to be named NHS Louisa Jordan, the Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has announced today in Holyrood. The announcement is available at https://www.gov.scot/news/nhs-louisa-jordan/. If required, the emergency hospital will act in a similar way to the NHS Nightingale facility currently being established in London by NHS England.

The naming of the hospital is a fitting honour to Maryhill born nursing sister Louisa Jessie Jordan, who in the First World War found herself as a member of the Scottish Women's Hospital serving with the 1st Serbian unit. After much service treating the Serbian wounded and sufferers of typhus, Louisa sadly died of typhus herself in March 1915. Her sacrifice is remembered each year to this day by the people of Serbia.

For more on Louisa's story, and that of the Scottish Women's Hospital, please visit http://www.scotlandswar.co.uk/jordan.html and http://www.parliament.scot/EducationandCommunityPartnershipsresources/EDU_10_Scottish_Womens_Hospital_Women.pdf.

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.

FindmyPast adds WW1 women's service records and English/Welsh probate indexes

The latest additions to FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk), to tie in with International Women's day:

British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 1917-1920

Uncover details of the remarkable women who served during the First World War with these detailed military records. They've been published online for the first time ever, only at Findmypast. Taken from The National Archives' WO 162 and WO 368 series, the records include:

WO 162/54 women emigrating after the war
WO 162/58 WAAC administrators in France
WO 162/62 lists of female motor drivers
WO 162/65 recommendations for honours and mentions in Peace Gazette

You'll find detailed transcripts and original document images for all of the records.


British Armed Forces, First World War Disability & Retirement Payments For Officers & Nurses

Another online first from The National Archives, these records are packed with information on Great War officers and nurses. In particular, you'll uncover details on the pay and gratuities that were given to invalided officers from the three branches of the Armed Forces, as well as nurses' disability payments.

The collection comprises of 40 pieces from six series:

PMG 42 – Ministry of Pensions: Disability Retired Pay, Gratuities, etc
PMG 43 – Ministry of Pensions: Supplementary Allowances and Special Grants
PMG 44 – Ministry of Pensions: Pensions to Relatives of Deceased Officers
PMG 45 – Ministry of Pensions: Widows Pensions
PMG 46 – Ministry of Pensions: Children’s Allowances
PMG 47 – Ministry of Pensions: Relatives of Missing Officer


England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1858-2019

We’ve added a massive 9.3 million additional records to this useful resource which now dates as far back as 1858. This latest update brings the mammoth collection to just over 24 million records.

An official government index for England and Wales, the records include transcripts and images that provide facts on your relatives' deaths and what they left behind. You could find death and probate dates, next of kin details, the value of their effects and much more. Images of the indexes are only featured for entries up until 1996.

Newspapers

This week, we've released two brand new papers and made substantial updates to 12 existing ones. The brand new additions are;

Bradford Weekly Telegraph covering the years 1882-1896, 1898-1899, 1901-1910 and 1912-1917
Ballymoney Free Press and Northern Counties Advertiser covering the years 1870 and 1873-1934

Below is a list of historical newspapers that have been supplemented and the years covered;

Burton Chronicle - 1898 and 1901-1906
Brecon County Times - 1871
Truth - 1885 and 1895
Freedom (London) - 1906-1927
Halifax Evening Courier - 1900 and 1910
Blyth News - 1874, 1894, 1905-1908, 1910, 1912-1930 and 1940-1950
Western Evening Herald - 1897
The Bioscope - 1908 and 1910
Brighouse News - 1897
Aberdeen Evening Express - 1972-1974
South Wales Gazette - 1896
Kent & Sussex Courier - 1966-1976 and 1978

Further details and links at https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/womens-records

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.

Have you visited... the Glasgow Women's Library?

In April my next book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, will be published. To pave the way, every week until publication I will flag up a key site that you may not be aware of if you are new to genealogy, or which you may have overlooked if researching for a while, which might just help with your Scottish research!

This week, the Glasgow Women's Library.

The Glasgow Women’s Library (https://womenslibrary.org.uk) is a national library, archive and museum dedicated to celebrating the lives, histories and achievements of women, with collections as diverse as Suffragette memorabilia and 1930s dressmaking patterns to Scottish Women’s Liberation newsletters from the 1970s. The organisation’s website hosts a variety of resources, including a searchable online catalogue for the holdings of its lending library, and its ‘LGBTQ Collections Online Resource’ hosting digitised materials from its Lesbian Archive and LGBTQ collections.

Have fun!

* Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet is available for pre-order now at https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Scottish-Family-History-on-the-Internet-Paperback/p/17717.

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.