One of the most recognisable landmarks in my part of Glasgow is Schaw House, a former tuberculosis hospital which is now apartments....

If like me you follow genealogy content on social media, you probably saw this post pop up from National Records of Scotland, the...

The BBC show "A House Through Time" has sparked interest in researching the life of a property alongside traditional family history...

There's no getting away from the fact that the internet has transformed the way we live our everyday lives and in many cases, has made...

A few months ago, I worked with a lovely lady from Ohio in the United States. Her grandmother had grown up in Dunbartonshire in the early...

Although genealogy is mostly fun, interesting and engaging, there are frustrations involved with researching family history too. You'll...

The easy part of genealogy is tracing the basics of birth, marriage and death, and looking for people on census returns. This gives you...

This year has involved me working hard on my Master's dissertation, which has now been submitted and is awaiting grading. Fingers...

One of the cool things about being a Glasgow-based researcher is that you come across all sorts of stories about people who used Glasgow...

Our ancestors had a very different attitude to juvenile crime. In Scotland, until 1932 the age of criminal responsibility was just 7. In...

Sometimes when we're researching a family it's easy to get bogged down in names and dates, and forget other ways to add context into a...

I've been volunteering in my local Oxfam shop for about 5 years, and enjoy it very much. Part of the joy of sorting donations is finding...

A picture tells a thousand words, so the old saying goes. That's certainly true with old photographs which you might have in the family....