Genealogy Classes - Beginner Class starts 18th February!

Our series of classes for beginners is starting 18th February - Wednesday evenings 7.00 p.m! We need to know numbers so please contact us to register, right away.

A little information is here in the poster. The 'Beginner' class is both for complete newcomers, and for people who're a bit rusty and need a refresher...
We'll be running 'advanced' classes later in the year.

The talk is available at https://youtu.be/Dsn4j-rPyMU
'Down the Rabbit Hole!' deals with circumstances and a family in St. Andrews at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, amidst fears of French invasion, army and militia changes, and people going to law about - rabbits on the golf course. It begins with a mystery person, John Fraser, and his children, explores a possible connection, and asks whether he was the same John Fraser who was injured in a stand-off between a golfer and the guards on the rabbit warren... looking at issues of invasion fears and army changes along the way.
(Try saying 'First Statistical Account' or 'Fotheringham Ogilvy Fraser' fast!)

To register for the Q&A (Monday 26th Jan, 8.00 p.m. Members please go to the Video Talks in Resources for link. Any others please contact our 'talks' address - talks(AT)tayvalleyfhs.org.uk - to request the Zoom information.

This issue is the first in our year of celebrating the creative occupations and pursuits within our family lines. Also, the winner of last year's 'Tay Valley Award' is revealed. Table of contents shown here - members can access issue 133 (and many others) at the Journal Archive.

Change of talk due to circumstances beyond our control. Apologies to all. Another talk is being substituted in - details following very soon!
(The planned January talk was to be on the first Discovery Expedition to Antarctica (1901-1904), with focus on the people, their family backgrounds and how they found themselves part of the Expedition. This talk, given by Alistair Gellatly, rounding off last year’s Historian focus on seafarers, would also touch on descendants and on some of the contacts which Dundee Heritage Trust still maintains to this day.
We hope this talk may become available at a future date.)

Members go to the Video Talks in Resources for link to register for the Zoom Q&A. Any others please contact our 'talks' address - talks(AT)tayvalleyfhs.org.uk - to request the Zoom information.

Our series of classes for beginners is starting 18th February - Wednesday evenings 7.00 p.m! We need to know numbers so please contact us to register, right away.

A little information is here in the poster.
And we'll be running 'advanced' classes later in the year.

Our newest video-talk will very shortly be available - and the Q&A session will be on the last Monday of January, at the usual time of 8.00 p.m. (UK time). Watch this space for details!

Now added https://youtu.be/HCDLreuw0N8 - Newspapers: Resources at Tay Valley FHS and Online. In this video-talk, genealogist and TVFHS member Melanie Harries gives a great account of the kinds of things that were reported in the press that can be relevant for your Family History research - from family notices and advertisements to happenings and stories - and how we can access these, both at our own Centre (access via The British Newspaper Archive) and elsewhere.

Lots of examples in this talk of the kinds of things we might find, to give detail and colour to our understandings of our Ancestors' lives!

To register for Q&A - go to the member resources at  Research Information, Video Talks, links for members, and more and you'll see the link to register for Q&A (on Monday 27th October, 8.00 p.m.)

And if you're not (yet) a member of TVFHS, you can contact us at talks@tayvalleyfhs.org.uk, saying how you're interested in this topic and maybe joining the Q&A.