Genealogy
Are you interested in finding out about your family history? Come and join us. We try to help and encourage each other in researching our family trees and our speakers give us insight into different areas of research. We are a friendly club and new members are very welcome.
Dates and times of our Friday meetings (mostly via Zoom) are listed on our programme and a notice of meeting will be sent each month as a reminder.
Committee Members 2022-2023
Carolyn Converse
Sandy Dennison
Louise Jackson
Anne Martin (Treasurer)
Kareth Paterson
Senga Simpson (President)
Alan Stevens (Secretary)
Leslie Williamson
Contact email address: sengasimpson@gmail.com
Meetings
7 October 2022 Zoom at 2.00
A Trip to Old Labuan, (an island off the coast of Borneo) with Alexander Lumsden, Mining Engineer, and others
Senga Simpson
4 November Zoom at 12.00
High Kirk Burial Grounds
Scott Fairie, GWSFHS President
9 December In person only, Room 227 at 12.00
Who the Dickens? Quiz
Drinks & Nibbles
Senga Simpson
13 January 2023 Zoom at 2.00
The Highlands: Jacobites, Clearances and Emigration
Lorna Steele-McGinn
Archivist, Highland Archives
10 February Zoom at 2.00
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Alison Anderson
CWGC Speaker
3 March Zoom at 2.00
Lance Sergeant James Barclay, Royal Scots Fusiliers (1896 – 1918)
or History from a Shoebox
Tom Ward
Lifelong Student of Military History
(& History Club President)
14 April Zoom at 2.00
AGM
Members’ Discussion
12 May Zoom at 2.00
DNA Match Lists, Shared Matches & Testing Site Basics
Michelle Leonard
Genealogist & DNA Detective
Outings TBC
Lunch/Waverley trip/Gardens of Dun Dubh House
Members of the Genealogy Club enjoyed an excellent lunch and craic at the Mharsanta restaurant in Bell Street in the Merchant City (March 2023)
