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Beginners Genealogy Course

Join The Urban Historian for their new Beginners Genealogy course, starting on 1st June, and learn how to search and record your family history!

Beginners Genealogy Course

About Beginners Genealogy Course

We are running our new Beginners Genealogy course starting on Wednesday 1st June in “The Art Department” Paisley’s newest Art space in the former Alders Department Store on Causeyside Street. The course will run weekly on a Wednesday between 2 and 4pm for 4 weeks ending on the 22 July.

The course is aimed at those just setting out on discovering their family history, and will incorporate sessions such as:

Where to begin?

Using forms to record information (form samples will be supplied)

Searching Scottish church Records, Civil Registration Records, Census’ and much more.

It is recommended that you have an account with the scotlandspeople.gov.uk website which is free, so you can try accessing the search index yourself.

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