The Professional Descendant

I’m now back home recovering after a busy weekend at the ‘Who Do You Think You Are? Live’ (WDYTYA) show which bills itself as “the bigges...

It’s true to say that prior to the 20th century few people in Scotland owned their own home.  For this reason, most modern guides to Scott...

Over the past 19 months I’ve been participating in a ProGen Study Group , based around the book Professional Genealogy : A Manual for Rese...

As readers of this blog may have guessed, the Kirk Session records of the Church of Scotland (and other Scottish churches) are one of my fa...

Over the last few years I’ve been making an effort to sort out my genealogy files, make sure every statement has a proper source citation a...

Yesterday I attended the Scottish Local History Forum Conference at the AK Bell Library in Perth. The theme of the conference was “For Re...

There are many great things about being a professional genealogist: getting to do something you love every day, helping to solve family mys...