Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society
@gwsfhs.org.uk
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
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
Don't miss what promises to be a very interesting talk for those with Highland ancestors from Alison Spring tonight! Sign up now: www.gwsfhs.org.uk/events/event...
Alison Spring@acspring.bsky.social · 3w agoOn Monday 20 July at 7.30pm I'll be speaking to the members @gwsfhs.org.uk about finding Highlanders in the Glasgow poor law application records. Sign up and join us at www.gwsfhs.org.uk/events/event... #GenHour #Ancestors
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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A helpful reminder to not take census returns as gospel!
Helen@helenj64.bsky.social · 4mo agoAlways 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
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.
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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Every day is #WorldBookDay for me so I'm not doing anything differently. Here's a peek at my main #genealogy reference library.
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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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 www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
“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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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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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
Whitekirk St Mary's #EastLothian drawing (after Lorimer) finished. With and without its lime-render. Pre-1914 windows, but probably not original. #Procreate
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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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. www.flickr.com/photos/uofgl...
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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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'
More early-C18th gravestones from Currie Kirkyard, for those who find a good memento mori oddly cheering.
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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A very interesting article in the @telegraph.co.uk today about the ongoing issues for researchers at the #BritishLibrary #Genealogy
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
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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"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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'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).
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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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Are you familar with the term 'corrie-fisted'? It's a Scots term meaning 'left-handed'. It came up when someone smudged the sign-in register at the centre the other day!
Don't forget that tonight we have Rachael Smith of Paisley Museum giving a talk on Zoom about Paisley's textile history!
Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society@gwsfhs.org.uk · last yr.Rachael Smith, of Paisley Museum, is giving a talk via Zoom on July 21 about Paisley's textile history, its pivotal role during the Paisley industrial revolution, and its enduring influence on the history of Paisley Scotland. Sign up now at join us at 7:30 p.m. on July 21st.
Paisley patterns are found quite commonly in 🇺🇿,across art/clothes/ textiles because the design originated in Persia.The Moghuls who were of Uzbek heritage bought the design to 🇮🇳,where a few 100 years later the British loved & bought back to the cotton mills of Paisley 🏴,giving it its imperial name.
Well, I guess this is one reason tax rolls are being hosted on ScotlandsPeople now... all are still browsable for free on Virtual Volumes though. More detail at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/help-and-sup... #GenHour #AncestryHour
Rachael Smith, of Paisley Museum, is giving a talk via Zoom on July 21 about Paisley's textile history, its pivotal role during the Paisley industrial revolution, and its enduring influence on the history of Paisley Scotland. Sign up now at join us at 7:30 p.m. on July 21st.
Paisley's Industrial Heritage - Rachael Smith - Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society
Rachael Smith is the Install Co-Ordinator, Paisley Museum, and former Collections Manager at the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum. Paisley, a historic town in Scotland, is world-renowned for its…
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Tonight at 7:30 p.m. we will have a talk by Ken Nisbit about researching British POWs during the first and second world wars. Register for the Zoom now! #genealogy
Researching British Prisoners of War 1914-1919 and 1939-1945 - Ken Nisbet - Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society
Ken Nisbet is the Chairman of the Scottish Association of Family History Societies. “Now in my 60’s I have been involved in family history for 45 years. Starting whilst I was at secondary school in Ab...
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