Tay Valley Family History Society was founded in 1980, as the third Scottish regional FHS, and now has strong worldwide membership. In our Research premises at 179-181 Princes Street, Dundee we extend welcome and help with research to our members.
The Centre is now a FamilySearch Affiliate Library, and so we welcome people to come to our centre to use the FamilySearch facility - visitors as well as our members. (Affiliate libraries have access to many FamilySearch’s digital genealogical collections, that are otherwise accessible only through a FamilySearch centre - including OPRs from the whole of Scotland, and many other resources e.g. from Canada, France, USA...)
(see 'News' below for class details)
The Centre is open five days a week.
Please check CONTACT PAGE for details of opening hours.
The Society aims to promote the study of family history, genealogy and local history throughout the Tay Valley: the former counties of Angus, Fife, Kinross and Perthshire, and the City and Royal Burgh of Dundee. Our members’ research interests move from stories of highland settlement and migration to the growth of linen and jute trades and the many associated industries in burghs and cities. Tales of hardship, romance or success – all are part of what our members discover.
Are you new to Family History, or needing a refresher? Keep watching 'News' for the details of our Family History Courses. We offer six weekly 'Beginner' Classes and also modules of 'Advanced' training.
Our Journal, The Historian, is published three times a year, with contributions from many members across the world, and we run a series of video talks for members, with a ‘Question and Answer’ session via Zoom so that our international members may participate. Details of current talks are in the ‘News’ section - talks generally have their Q&A sessions on the final Mondays of January, April, July and October.
More information concerning the Society, classes and other events can be found on the News and Events pages.
Although much of the website is freely accessible, some information and resources are exclusively available to members, who can use their registered email address to access these pages.
More commonly known as Lamb’s Dundee, this book was compiled by Dundee hotelier, Dundee High School FP and Antiquarian Alexander Crawford Lamb and first published in 1895. Concerned at how many of Dundee’s historic buildings were disappearing, he sought to document their existence. This book, with fantastic illustrations by William Gibb, is an essential guide to Dundee which existed before the improvement act of 1879 and the subsequent pieces of what has been referred to as civic vandalism, which occurred during the twentieth century.
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