Family History Online: Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

The course will consist of two hour, weekly Zoom classes, with follow-up emails summarizing each session, and offeringlinks, copies of any slides used, and any discussion points raised. Email support from the tutor is always available.

Topics covered will include:

- Scottish naming practices and surnames and how to understand  and interpret them; clans and septs

- The Scottish legal system and how historically it differs from Ebngland and Wales

- Civil registration In Scotland and its records

- Records of places of worship

- Land records, maps, and visual resources

- The highland clearances, migration and the tracing ancestry in the worldwide Scottish diaspora

- We will also put our Scottish ancestors firmly in the context of the  nation's history

The Tutor

The tutor, Gill Rossini, is a highly experienced and published historian who  has a long standing and strong interest in the history of the six 'Celtic Nations'. She has taught for the University of Aberystwyth and has experience of tracing her own Irish ancestry. She was recently commissioned by a television company to devise and present a series of history documentaries, which will be filmed over the next twelve months, circumstances permitting.