Genealogy
The Genealogy Club is a forum for discussion about researching our ancestors and how they lived. Members range from beginners to experienced researchers and we all learn from each other through speaking about our experiences and successes in finding out our family history. The programme includes group discussions, speakers and visits.
The Club meets on the second Friday of the month from October to May. Meetings in Room 753 will take place from 12.15pm to 2.15pm. Meetings via Zoom will start at 2.00pm.
The membership fee is £10.00.
Committee Members 2023-2024
Sandy Dennison
Anne Martin (Treasurer)
Kareth Paterson
Allan Russell
Senga Simpson (President)
Alan Stevens (Secretary)
Leslie Williamson
Contact email address: sengasimpson@gmail.com
Meetings
13 October 2023
Room 753
Gravestone rubbings
Carolyn Converse Cooper, Genealogy club member
27 October
Visit to Toshie's Cafe & Kinetics cycle workshop/ museum
Ben Cooper
10 November
Room 753
How and why did transportation replace overseas banishment from Scotland?
Ken Nisbet, Family and Military Historian
8 December
Room 753
Quiz: Who the Dickens?
Drinks & Nibbles
12 January 2024 via Zoom
Using newspapers for family history:
Unearthing the perilous life of an agricultural labourer
Dr Calista Williams, Course Director
Genealogical Studies Postgraduate Programme
Centre for Lifelong Learning
9 February via Zoom
A Servant's Life
June Wiggins
Journal Team Leader for Troon@Ayrshire FHS
8 March
Room 753
AGM
Drinks and nibbles
April TBC
Walk around the area of the lost village with Kevin Scott
12 April
Grahamston: the lost village
Kevin Scott (has Grahamston ancestry!)
walkingglasgow.com
May TBC
Visit to Scotland Street School
Members of the Genealogy Club enjoyed an excellent lunch and craic at the Mharsanta restaurant in Bell Street in the Merchant City (March 2023)
