Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society

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.

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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...

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.

On #WorldBookDay why not plan a visit to our genealogy library in the West End of Glasgow?

Three shelves of books about Irish history and genealogy

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 🗃️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

“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

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-...

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…

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!

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

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

Whitekirk St Mary's #EastLothian drawing (after Lorimer) finished. With and without its lime-render. Pre-1914 windows, but probably not original.

#Procreate

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.

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.

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...

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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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'

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.

More early-C18th gravestones from Currie Kirkyard, for those who find a good memento mori oddly cheering.

‘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

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?

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

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

Trying to think of which recipe I'd like on my headstone. How about you?

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.

"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."

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).

'Ancestry in legal bid to access Scottish family records' -- What are your thoughts on this case?

Hear some of stories of those interred within the 37 acres of the cemetery, and their contributions which helped make Glasgow the industrial powerhouse she became which saw her known as the Second City of the Victorian Empire.

Register for the Zoom now: www.gwsfhs.org.uk/events/event...

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

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.

Maybe @chrismpaton.bsky.social‬ can add more (or correct me if I'm wrong)

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!

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List of masters and servants in tax rolls held on ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk, which can be viewed on payment of 2 credits.

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

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…

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.

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...

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

This will put a smile on the face of every local history fan

The building is Category B Listed, and the heraldic device is described as “Ornate heraldic corner piece above bank front at 1st floor, comprising lion and unicorn flanking shield, painted gilded.”