EVENTS 2024 – Monthly Talk, Saturday 19th October

In Scotland’s People you can search Births and Baptisms, Marriages and Banns, Divorces and Civil partnerships, Deaths and Burials, in either Statutory Registers from 1855 to the present, or Church Registers from 1553 onwards. Census returns from 1841 to 1921, Valuation rolls, even the Kirk Sessions which names of people in church court proceedings or involved in the religious community in various activities going back before 1700 in some parishes. There are also Poor relief and migration records including the Highland and Island Emigration Society 1852-57, set up to relieve Highland destitution. Prison registers of people admitted to Scottish prisons to 1921, and much more. You can find detailed information about the records through our catalogues and indexes and research guides. And, while it does cost money for particular records, there is alot of research which can be done for FREE.

Come and join Val Buchanan and Ian MacGregor as they show you the useful website if you are researching your Scottish family history. This October Monthly Talk will be held at 2pm on Saturday the 19th at the Gympie Family History Society rooms at 1 Chapple Street in Gympie, in the Old Ticket Office under the Rattler Railway Station. The cost is $5 and will include light refreshments. Bookings are helpful for catering purposes. RSVP with a name, phone number, and a number of people attending to 5482 8211.

Scotland’s People is the official Scottish Government site for searching government records and archives. It’s run by National Records of Scotland, a non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government. In the National Records of Scotland, researching our collections includes Scottish government records from the 12th century to the present day, records created by courts of law, churches, businesses, landed estates and other corporate bodies, Scottish census enumeration books, and the National Health Service Central Register. You can find detailed information about the records through our catalogues and indexes and research guides. All of which is open and searchable for FREE.

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