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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 21/09/2026

Live talk tonight! FamilySearch's Full-Text Search has changed the way that family historians are practicing genealogy. The type of records being added to the full-text search feature are full of names. Learn how to harness the power of full-text search tonight at 7:30pm with Amber Godfrey.

Screenshot of familysearch.org/en/search/full-text showing the front page for FamilySearch's full text search.

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The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 20/07/2026

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...

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 23/06/2026

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.

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A History of the Waddells of Scotland - Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 27/03/2026

A helpful reminder to not take census returns as gospel!

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Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk · 09/03/2026

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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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 06/03/2026

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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Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 05/03/2026

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

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.

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Claire Bradley @cbgenealogy.ie · 05/03/2026

Every day is #WorldBookDay for me so I'm not doing anything differently. Here's a peek at my main #genealogy reference library.

Three shelves of books about Irish history and genealogy

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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

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 🗃️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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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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Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡 @allthosebefore.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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-...

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“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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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 16/02/2026

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!

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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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Lost Glasgow @lostglasgow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk · 09/02/2026

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

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

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 02/02/2026

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.

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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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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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...

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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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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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'

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

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

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.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 26/12/2025

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?

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‘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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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A very interesting article in the @telegraph.co.uk today about the ongoing issues for researchers at the #BritishLibrary #Genealogy

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Emma Maxwell - Scottish Indexes @scottishindexes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 09/10/2025

"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."

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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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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 18/08/2025

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...

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 22/07/2025

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

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 22/07/2025

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!

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 21/07/2025

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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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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.

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Alison Spring @acspring.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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

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

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 01/07/2025

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.

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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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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 11/06/2025

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

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 09/06/2025

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.”

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 09/06/2025

Although the dark wooden panelling of the original bank has long disappeared, one of our members can remember being taken there by her mother, with the counter too high for the wee girl to see over.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 09/06/2025

The (rather faded) Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom as used in Scotland can be seen above the River Nile corner shop at 27 Paisley Road West, premises owned in 1913/14 by the Trustees of the Savings Bank of Glasgow.

This picture shows the (rather faded) Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom as used in Scotland. The image can be seen above the River Nile corner shop at 27 Paisley Road West, premises owned in 1913/14 by the Trustees of the Savings Bank of Glasgow. Although the dark wooden panelling of the original bank has long disappeared, one of our members can remember being taken there by her mother, with the counter too high for the wee girl to see over. 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.”

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Allie Nickell @alliethinks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Been trying out FamilySearch full text to search Glasgow burial records. Even doing a search with the lair number has been productive - so far one false return, and some entries not picked up, but much higher success rate in 'reading' the handwritten number than I would have expected. #Genealogy

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 31/05/2025

Memorial halls are a feature of cities, towns and villages across Britain. This photograph shows the Co-operative Memorial Building on Kingston Street in Glasgow and its plaque to all those members of the co-operative movement who lost their lives in the first World War.

Memorial plaque above a building that says "Co-operative Memorial Building erected to the memory of all co-operators in Scotland who fought in the Great War 1914-1919. Image: Paul Burns

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 25/05/2025

Until 1930 there were three streets named Kelvin in Glasgow. The one in Milton was renamed Balnain Street in 1928, another in Maryhill was renamed Cowel St in 1929, and the following year the last was renamed Keith Street. But before Keith Street was called Kelvin Street, it was called 'The Goat'!

Old postcard of what is now Keith Street, with row of of buildings that look like two-ups-two-down houses. A horse and carriage sits next the sidewalk, and Dumbarton Road is visible in the background.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 20/05/2025

333 days to go! Start the countdown - the 1926 Ireland census website will go live on 18 April 2026. 🇮🇪

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 19/05/2025

Wayne Shepheard is giving a talk tonight at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom called 'Looking for Elizabeth'. In describing his search for his wife's great grandmother Wayne will explain how and where to search for Scottish records, and the twists and turns one family history mystery can take. Register now!

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Looking for Elizabeth - Wayne Shepheard - Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society

I thought that finding information about Elizabeth Couper, my wife’s maternal great-grandmother, would be a straight-forward exercise. I would never have predicted the twists and turns we encountered…

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 13/05/2025

If you're in Glasgow, you might be interested in this free event tomorrow evening, 'Kelvin Hall's hidden histories' at National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall.

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Kelvin Hall's hidden histories

Join us on a time travelling tour of Glasgow's Kelvin Hall starting in 1925.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 05/05/2025

Did you know the Glasgow Fire Brigade made a dog an accredited member in 1898? Wallace was a setter-collie cross and of "unusual intelligence". His dog license was paid by the Glasgow Corporation, a nod to his official role. He died in 1902 and was preserved and displayed at Central Headquarters.

Black and white photograph of a taxidermied dog with a thick collar and black ears on display with a pair of dog-sized boots in front of him. From 'Glasgow Curiosities' by Carol Foreman.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 26/04/2025

The 'royal' line of Faa often gentrified its name to Fall. More information on the gypsies of Kirk Yetholm can be found at blog.historicenvironment.scot/2022/10/the-... [Post by Diana Burns, who also found this photo album!]

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The Gypsy Kings and Queens of Kirk Yetholm - Historic Environment Scotland Blog

Explore the unique culture of the Kirk Yetholm Gypsies, who were granted privileges by James V to essentially self-govern.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 26/04/2025

The large families of the earlier gypsies were recorded in the Kirk Yetholm parish registers, but during the periods of persecution many had adopted recognisable Scottish surnames such as Young, Douglas, Baillie, Ruthven, Shaw, Tait and Gordon.

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 26/04/2025

In the early 18th century several gypsy clans settled in Kirk Yetholm where they were given favourable leases by the local landowner. There they built a number of cottages, including a 'royal palace'. The gypsies would travel during the summer and return to the village to over-winter.

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