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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society
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Here to connect with other family historians, genealogists, and people with a passion for Glasgow's past. Drop in to our Glasgow West End research centre or visit us online! Registered Scottish charity. gwsfhs.org.uk
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Meet the man meticulously cataloguing Glasgow’s dead
Chris McKay has been logging tombstones across the city for years. Why is he doing it?
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September 5, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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Our publications for 2025-2026! This year we have two (!) volumes, focussed on different islands: Arran (Arran Rentals, 1576-1780: accounts & testaments) and Australia (Life & Adventures of G. R. Nicoll, 1824-1901: travel journal of a Scottish shipwright/blockmaker) www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk
July 31, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Don't miss what promises to be a very interesting talk for those with Highland ancestors from Alison Spring tonight!

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July 20, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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A History of the Waddells of Scotland is a two-volume book in PDF format exploring the history and genealogy of the Scottish Waddells. Based on decades of research, this well-written chronicle will be a trove of information for those seeking to learn more about one of Scotland’s ancient families.
A History of the Waddells of Scotland - Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society
A History of the Waddells of Scotland is a two-volume book in PDF format exploring the history and genealogy of the Scottish Waddells. Based on decades of research, this well-written chronicle will be...
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June 23, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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A helpful reminder to not take census returns as gospel!
helenj64.bsky.social Helen @helenj64.bsky.social · Mar 27
Always remember information in census returns is not necessarily true! My great-aunt said she was born in Canada and her husband in Scotland. They weren't married (he was!) and were both born in Gloucestershire! What fun they had filling that one in! #genealogy ##FamilyHistory
chiddickstree.bsky.social Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social · Mar 25
‘Dear Paul’ – Where the Genealogy Magic Happens……
A little behind-the-scenes look at my column in Family Tree Magazine — new #blog out this Friday
Scandals, surprises, census quirks…
#genealogy #familyhistory
March 27, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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I took this one a year ago.

Looking down Renfield St to the junction with Gordon St. The dome on the corner belongs to Brown and Carrick's commercial premises of 1851 for wholesale stationers and publishers Francis Orr and Sons.
March 9, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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RootsTech is having a Scottish session 'Scottish Church Records - Not just Baptisms, Marriages and Funerals' tonight at 10pm with @glasgowgenealogy.bsky.social. It is free and will be recorded so you don't need to stay up to watch it! www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...
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Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.
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March 6, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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On #WorldBookDay why not plan a visit to our genealogy library in the West End of Glasgow?
Genealogy books for sale at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society research centre. Shelves of genealogy reference books at GWSFHS Reference books and collections of journals on shelves at GWSFHS Genealogy reference books on display, including Mining the Lothians.
March 5, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Every day is #WorldBookDay for me so I'm not doing anything differently. Here's a peek at my main #genealogy reference library.
Three shelves of books about Irish history and genealogy
March 5, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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I'm at the latest Scottish Indexes Conference, going for several more hours. It's free & not too late to register: www.scottishindexes.com/conference.a... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #SocialHistory #archives 🗃️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Scottish Indexes - Helping you trace your Scottish family tree
Do you want to learn how to trace your family history? Have you made a start but need some tips on how to proceed? Or perhaps you are an experienced researcher who is keen to discover new skills and n...
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February 28, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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I was fascinated by this article. I can see some potential benefits of using #AI to assist with #FamilyHistory research, although I don’t use it myself. But to find that it can create fake historical records is truly chilling. #Genealogy

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“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine
The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed
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February 27, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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Join us at 7:30pm tonight for a presentation via Zoom by Jackie Sutherland "Doctor Behind the Wire - POWs in Singapore". Jackie will talki her parents’ POW experiences 1942 - 1945 and will explain sources for researching people who were in the Far East during the Second World War. Sign up now!
Dr Behind the Wire - POW in Singapore - Jackie Sutherland - Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society
Jackie Sutherland is the eldest daughter of two Far East Prisoners of War. From them, she inherited a love of travel and the environment. Jackie has had a varied and enjoyable career – working with…
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February 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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Trudging through the snow - George Square, #OTD in 1958.

While Victoria and Albert remain, the statue of David Livingstone has long since legged it up to Cathedral Square.

Looks like that bloke in the bunnet had a pithy comment for the snapper.

Pic: Newsquest
February 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Whitekirk St Mary's #EastLothian drawing (after Lorimer) finished. With and without its lime-render. Pre-1914 windows, but probably not original.

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An architectural drawing of the south elevation of Whitekirk St Mary's Church in East Lothian, Scotland. The drawing shows the church with a tower, pyramidal roof and a short transept in the centre. On the left side of the image is the nave with a decorated entrance porch and corner buttresses. The east limb of the church, or the cancel, on the right-hand side of the image, has two pilaster buttresses. The windows are of Y-tracery and intersecting Y-tracery form, and are probably not original. The church roof is shown with grey slate tiles. This drawing is based on Robert Lorimer's 1914 drawings, which depict the church before its destructive fire. The cause of the 1914 fire was blamed on the actions of Suffragettes. It is not known when the church lost its lime-rendered exterior finish, but this image attempts to visualise what it might have looked like. The three-light mullioned tracery window in the south transept gable wall was destroyed in the 1914 fire. A smaller trefoil roundel window replaced it. Drawing by Bob Marshall, 2026. © CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 An architectural drawing of the south elevation of Whitekirk St Mary's Church in East Lothian, Scotland. The drawing shows the church with a tower, pyramidal roof and a short transept in the centre. On the left side of the image is the nave with a decorated entrance porch and corner buttresses. The east limb of the church, or the cancel, on the right-hand side of the image, has two pilaster buttresses. The windows are of Y-tracery and intersecting Y-tracery form, and are probably not original. The masonry walls are made of locally quarried red sandstone. The church roof is shown with grey slate tiles. This drawing is based on Robert Lorimer's 1914 drawings, which depict the church before its destructive fire. The cause of the 1914 fire was blamed on the actions of Suffragettes. The three-light mullioned tracery window in the south transept gable wall was destroyed in the 1914 fire. A smaller trefoil roundel window replaced it. Drawing by Bob Marshall, 2026. © CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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New PDF release! Beith Head Street United Presbyterian Church Burial Register, Ayrshire. The register records 1856-1952 interments: names, addresses, lair numbers, and ownership. With the original register now lost, this transcript safeguards the only full record of 143 lairs.
Ayrshire, Beith Head Street United Presbyterian Church Burial Register - Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society
A transcription of the Head Street United Presbyterian Church Burial Register (1856–1952), preserving names, lair records, and key history of the Beith churchyard.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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A bit of Glasgow historical nerdery I'd not come across before. UoG's Flickr pages include an album of maps, which contains David Smith's large-scale town plan of 1822. I don't think the NLS site has anything of comparable detail between 1807 and 1857.

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Maps of Glasgow
The Map Collection is on Level 7 of the University Library and is the most important academic collection in Scotland. It includes an extensive coverage of Glasgow and the west of Scotland, including m...
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February 1, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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You have some discretion about how much personal detail you put in your will but it's arguably TMI to inform your heirs and the Prerogative Court of Canterbury that you're 'in good healthe of harte and all my members excepte the defect in makinge of my water'
January 21, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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More early-C18th gravestones from Currie Kirkyard, for those who find a good memento mori oddly cheering.
Gravestone with the inscription "Memento Mori" alongside an hourglass, a skull, crossed spades, and what are either crossed bones or crossed golf clubs. Gravestone with a rather glaikit stylised angel above a faceless robes figure and a skellington. Gravestone with the inscription "Memento Mori / Remember Death" along with a skull, an hourglass, spades, crossed bones, uncrossed bones, stars, flowers, and a fleshy face with big hair. The face looks disconcertingly like Bill Clinton. Gravestone with the obligatory angel wings, hourglass, crossed bones, and a rather fed-up skull.
December 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Findmypast licenses data sets created by amateur genealogists' "passion projects", including a collection of 615,000 headstones created by Louise Crocker of Norfolk. Have you created any of your own personal data sets? What are they?
‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors
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December 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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A very interesting article in the @telegraph.co.uk today about the ongoing issues for researchers at the #BritishLibrary
#Genealogy
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Join Caroline Brown as she explores the lives of Dundee’s textile workers: women, men and children whose labour shaped a city once known as the jute capital of the world.

#ScottishHistory #Archives #Dundee #TextileHeritage #FamilyHistory #Jute
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Trying to think of which recipe I'd like on my headstone. How about you?
A Recipe Engraved on a Gravestone Helps to Remember the Dearly Departed and Keep Part of Them Alive
Culinary epitaphs offer a point of connection to the deceased’s descendants and anyone else who comes across them
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October 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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"Analysis by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) found a higher proportion of individuals born in Italy identifying as Roma than expected. Officials concluded that some census respondents born in Rome, which is called Roma in Italian, may have ticked the Roma ethnicity category in error."
Italians mistakenly identify as Roma in Scotland's census
Italians born in Rome may have accidently selected the Roma ethnicity category in the country's last census, officials say.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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'Ancestry in legal bid to access Scottish family records' -- What are your thoughts on this case?
Ancestry in legal bid to access Scottish family records
DNA testing site, Ancestry.com, has taken legal action to access millions of Scottish family records held by the National Records of Scotland (NRS).
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Join Annette Mullen tonight at 7:30 p.m. over Zoom for a friendly and informative talk and virtual Walk through the history of the Glasgow Necropolis, the City of the Dead.
The Glasgow Necropolis – Walking Through the History of a City by Annette Mullen - Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society
The history of the Glasgow Necropolis cemetery opened in Glasgow, Scotland in 1834, now a tourist attraction adjacent to Glasgow Cathedral
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August 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM