Scottish Ancestry and Family History : Intermediate - 4 weeks

Name: Scottish Ancestry and Family History : Intermediate - 4 weeks
Start: 2024-10-16T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-16T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Lairg Learning Centre,Main Street,Lairg,IV27 4DD,GB

Schedule

Wed Oct 16 2024 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Lairg Learning Centre,Main Street,Lairg,IV27 4DD,GB | Evanton, SC

Learn how to trace your Scottish Ancestry and family history and tree with a focus on places, migration, family secrets and occupations.
This second block of four weeks is designed for people who have some experience of doing their family history, but would like to build on those foundations. These sessions are suitable for people who attended the first block of four, but who would like to expand their skills, knowledge and understanding.
You will explore the jobs and trades of your forebears and how they migrated both into and out of Scotland. We will discuss how to handle the thorny issues of family secrets and myths and investigate the complexities of dealing with Highland place names. Course content
Week 1 Places
- Maps and Gaelic names
- Parishes and counties
- Churches and graveyards - memorial inscriptions
Week 2 Migration and related records
- Emigration
- Immigration
Week 3 Family secrets and myths
- Illegitimacy and adoption
- Poverty and lunacy
- Bigamy and divorce
Week 4 Occupations: trades and crafts
- Regional differences
- Military service
- Unlocking more information
- Available resources
About the Tutor
Christina’s great great great grandfather was evicted in the 1790s to the clearance township of Badbea in Caithness. A visit to this poignant site as a teenager sparked an intense interest in her Sutherland forebears and started a lifelong obsession with unearthing more.
She has been using the internet to develop her wide-spreading family tree for more than twenty years. As well as digging up her Highland roots she has also traced her Portuguese Jewish ancestry back to the Spanish Inquisition. She has found one ancestor who signed the white five pound notes on behalf of the Bank of England. Another revelation was that her great grandfather from Helmsdale was not only highly skilled in his profession as a bootmaker, but was also in demand for undertaking minor surgery.
Christina has vast experience of tracing many people’s family trees, and is particularly keen to untangle the inter-related genealogy of one Highland parish. She is keen to stress that this is all possible on a shoestring budget.
Data Disclaimer
Lairg & District Learning Centre will hold your details on our student data base. If you do not wish your details to be held please let us know by emailing [email protected] . Your data will be passed on to the class tutor - your name, email address and if you have completed any disclaimers or sign up forms this information is passed to the class tutor. This is a requirement to participate in the class so please do not sign up if you are not happy for this to happen.