Discover My Past Scotland Issue 39 – March/April 2012

• Tartan celebrations! - myths, history, and tartan today
• Find your footballing forefathers
• Titanic tragedy - Scottish ancestors on board?
• Wheelwrights - cogs in the community
• Spotlight on Forres
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Discover My Past Scotland Issue 38 – January / February 2012

• Scotland's showcase to the world - early exhibitions
• Arctic convoys - id your ancestors sail with them?
• Research your Catholic connections
• Scottish school records - top resources for your research
• Coopers - masters of an ancient art
• Spotlight on Dalkeith
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Discover My Past Scotland Issue 37 – November / December 2011

• Queen Victoria's Sudanese wars - a Scottish officer's story
• A peek inside the closet - ancestor's shocking secrets
• Fashion in Scottish family pictures
• Handloom weavers of Perth - top resources for your research
• The very first Scots - discover more about our earliest ancestors
• Spotlight on Greenock
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Discover My Past Scotland Issue 36 - October 2011

• Newspaper archives - genealogical gems
• Aberdeen ancestors - top resources
• The Border world of Tibbie Shiel
• Trace your Italian connections
• Spooky Scottish legends
• James Watt - steam pioneer
• Spotlight on Fort William
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

 

 

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

In our June issue

• Park life – a breath of fresh air for our ancestors

• Back to school – examine Scottish public school records

• Family history in Brisbane

• Wick’s Past – preserved for the future

• Steps to trace relatives in the shoemaking trade

• Spotlight on Galashiels

• Expert Q&A

• Family history newsround, library and events

 

 

 

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

In our June issue

• Park life – a breath of fresh air for our ancestors

• Back to school – examine Scottish public school records

• Family history in Brisbane

• Wick’s Past – preserved for the future

• Steps to trace relatives in the shoemaking trade

• Spotlight on Galashiels

• Expert Q&A

• Family history newsround, library and events

 

 

 

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

In our June issue

• Park life – a breath of fresh air for our ancestors

• Back to school – examine Scottish public school records

• Family history in Brisbane

• Wick’s Past – preserved for the future

• Steps to trace relatives in the shoemaking trade

• Spotlight on Galashiels

• Expert Q&A

• Family history newsround, library and events

 

 

 

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

In our June issue

• Park life – a breath of fresh air for our ancestors

• Back to school – examine Scottish public school records

• Family history in Brisbane

• Wick’s Past – preserved for the future

• Steps to trace relatives in the shoemaking trade

• Spotlight on Galashiels

• Expert Q&A

• Family history newsround, library and events

 

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• A tale of two censuses – Revelations for your research
• Miniature Memories – The growth of Scottish tourism
• The weather’s impact on our family history
• Eyemouth – Eye of the storm
• Top oral history resources
• Spotlight on Airdrie
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Water, water everywhere – but none for our forebears!
• Marriage lines – an insight into your ancestors’ weddings
• Scottish weather – a matter of life or death
• Housework, the hard way – great-granny’s work was never done!
• Cast in stone – lasting legacy of Scottish craftsmen
• Spotlight on Thurso
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• MacBraynes – lifeblood of the islands
• Sources in Kirk Sessions – new avenues for your research
• Tay Bridge disaster – human stories behind the tragedy
• Votes for women – Scottish suffragettes in action
• Rabbie's Kin – are you related to Robert Burns?
• Spotlight on Forfar
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Coastal customs – captured on film
• Irregular marriages – Top tips for your research
• Bell Rock – 200 years of light
• Records from a Royal hospital
• The Scottish workhorse – a breed apart
• Spotlight on Pitlochry
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Robert Burns – Birthplace of the bard
• Discover your Australian ancestors
• Safeguard your digital images – Top professional tips
• Catholic relatives on record
• Our maritime heritage – A key resource for your research
• Spotlight on Stranraer
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Scotland the Brave – Our ancestors’ military history
• Latter-day Saints – An invaluable genealogy resource
• Lumber Jills – Unsung heroines of war
• Collectors for the Crown – Customs & Excise records
• The generation game – A first-time foray into family history
• Spotlight on Peebles
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Scotland the Brave – Our ancestors’ military history
• Latter-day Saints – An invaluable genealogy resource
• Lumber Jills – Unsung heroines of war
• Collectors for the Crown – Customs & Excise records
• The generation game – A first-time foray into family history
• Spotlight on Peebles
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Get to work! – with your Edwardian & Victorian kinfolk
• Genes Reunited – The easy way to build your family tree
• The School of Scottish Studies – Help for your research
• Trace your shipbuilding ancestors
• 1918 and the war goes on – against the deadliest plague in history
• Spotlight on Inverness
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Gateways to the world – Scotland’s maritime links
• Scottish freemasons – From poets to presidents
• Blogs for the family historian
• Valentines of Dundee – Our pictorial heritage
• Trace your blacksmith ancestors
• Spotlight on Kintyre
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• What we did on our holidays
• 650 years in the pub! –Trace your ancestors in the licensed trade
• Church of Scotland records – Top tips for the family historian
• Mary Queen of Scots and the Stewart Dynasty
• Scotand’s musical heritage
• Spotlight on Dumfries
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Scotland’s tourism – the early years
• Trace your Jewish ancestors
• Heirlooms – flesh out your family tree
• A guide to Scottish Heraldry
• Battle of the sexes – our first female graduates
• Spotlight on Ayr
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Setting up home – in Victorian Scotland
• Testaments and inventories – Shed light on your ancestors
• Douglas Clan – History behind a powerful Scottish clan
• Hunters of The Deep – Whalers – and the families they left behind
• Ghostbusters in Inveraray – Spooky experiences at a 19th century jail …
• Spotlight on Alloa
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Farm life for our forebears
• Who Do You Think You Are? Live – The latest Scottish family history developments
• Scotland’s golf – our legacy to the world
• Market forces – Shop with your Scottish ancestors
• Friendly societies – a key to your research
• Spotlight on Elgin
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• An old Scottish yarn – The story of our textile heritage
• Scottish business records – Archives to help your family history research
• Photos of the fifties – Tenement life in Dundee
• Scotland’s men of iron – Trace your ironworker ancestors
• Highland home – Bring the past alive
• Spotlight on Shetland
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Hatched, matched & dispatched – Old family life in photos
• Trace your Irish Ancestors
• Men of the cloth – Find your clergymen forebears
• East Neuk of Fife – Focus on the “Fringe of Gold”
• King James VI Hospital – One of Perth’s oldest surviving institutions…
• Spotlight on Montrose
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround, library and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Sir Walter Scott - Scotland’s lost pride restored
• Tatties and Neeps - Ruth A Symes shows what Scottish recipes can tell you about your family history
• Scottish death records - Genealogist Chris Paton offers some tips on how to trace evidence of your forebears’ demise.
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

View Preview of Discover My Past Scotland Issue 15 – January 2010
This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Transports of delight – How we travelled – a century ago
• 1871 census Help for your family history research
• Dundee’s noble fleet – The city’s sea-faring legacy
• Industry in the “Lang toon” Kirkcaldy’s linoleum trade
• Meet up with an old Friend! People’s Friend’s 140 years
• Spotlight on Dunbar
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order and website resources to help your family research

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• That's entertainment – How we spent our leisure time
• On the beat – Trace your Scottish police ancestors
• A royal love affair – Queen Victoria's spiritual home
• Explore Canada's Electric Scotland website – One of the best online archives for Scottish family history research
• Spotlight on St Andrews
• Expert Q&A, news and events

Plus: High quality photographs for you to order, as well as website resources to facilitate your online research As Homecoming year ends, view our 44-page Discover My Past Scotland issue commemorating The Gathering 2009. To view The Gathering issue, go to Back issues.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Scots at war – Crimea to the Somme
• Trace your long-lost North American relatives
• Arbroath fishers – fae the Fit o’ the Toon
• Friendly forums –Help with your online research
• The killing times –A brutal chapter of Scottish history
• Spotlight on Mull
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: Homecoming Update, high quality photographs for you to order, as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research. ALSO ONLINE NOW: our 44-page Discover My Past Scotland issue commemorating The Gathering 2009.
To view The Gathering issue, go to Back issues.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Village life in Scotland - a century of changes
• Back to school - Learn from our ancestors' records
• University challenge - On course at Strathclyde
• Family history - for children
• Meet the experts - Help is at hand for your research
• Spotlight on East Renfrewshire
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: Homecoming Update, high quality photographs for you to order, as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research. ALSO ONLINE NOW: our 44-page Discover My Past Scotland issue commemorating The Gathering 2009.
To view The Gathering issue, go to Back issues.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Top tips for your family research
• A schoolmaster's Tale - the cost of living 100 years ago
• Highland clearances - a 1773 witness account
• The forgotten people - secrets of the asylums
• The Fencibles - Scotland's Home Guard
• Spotlight on Falkirk
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: Homecoming Update, high quality photographs for you to order, as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

ALSO ONLINE NOW: our 44-page Discover My Past Scotland issue commemorating The Gathering 2009.

To view The Gathering issue, go to Back issues.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• The Age of the Train – the importance of Scotland’s railways
• Redcoat Rampage – the aftermath of Culloden
• The Mitchell Library – how it can help your research
• Spotlight on Oban
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: Homecoming Update, high quality photographs for you to order, as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

ALSO ONLINE NOW: our 44-page Discover My Past Scotland Issue 9, celebrating The Gathering 2009. To view The Gathering issue, click here.

ONLINE NOW: our 44-page Discover My Past Scotland Issue 9, celebrating The Gathering 2009.

In it, you can read about:

• Gathering of Scotland’s clans!
• Scotland’s places – where to trace your ancestors
• ScotlandsPeople – a step-by-step guide to research your
  family tree
• History of the Highland Games
• Scottish fare with Scotland’s favourite family – the Broons!
• Holyrood – at the heart of Edinburgh

And much more about your Scottish Heritage

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Edinburgh – Capital of Scottish literature
• Sporting life – in old Scotland
• Family History Societies – how they can help YOU
• Highland Dancing – keeping tradition alive
• Foresters in your family tree – history of a vital Scottish industry
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: Homecoming Update, high quality photographs for you to order, as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

Look out next month for our bumper issue celebrating The Gathering, online 23 July and available at the event in Edinburgh (25-26 July) as a glossy magazine. Our regular August issue will also be online at the end of July.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Scotland’s best online family history resources
• Life Behind Bars – Prisoners in your past?
• Dundee’s Mill Families – Trace the inhabitants of Jutepolis
• How the 1851 Census Can Help You
• Spotlight on Stirling
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events
• Win FREE tickets to the Royal Highland Show!

Plus: Homecoming Update, high quality photographs for you to order, as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Doon the watter – the pleasures of the Clyde 100 years ago
• Be a DNA Detective – Discover Your Origins
• How to trace army ancestors – Top tips
• Who Do You Think You Are? – Report from the premier family history event
• Bodies for Sale! – Dark Secrets of body-snatching in 19th century Scotland
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: Homecoming Update, high quality photographs for you to order, as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage, including:

• Around Scotland’s Shores – the way we lived and worked
• Find your ancestors in Canada
• Scottish legacy – in India
• Spotlight on Motherwell
• Expert Q&A
• Family history newsround and events

Plus: Homecoming Happenings, high quality photographs for you to order, as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage:

Plus Expert Family History Q&A, Newsround, Dates for your Diary and Homecoming Happenings as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish Heritage:

• Ancestors on Board: How to search outbound passengers lists 1890-1960
• Scottish Names: Valuable tips from top genealogist Anthony Adolph
• An Edwardian Summer’s Afternoon: The way we used to live
• Birthday books: Revelations about your forebears
• Spotlight on the Scottish Borders
• Skye: Trace your island relatives

Plus Expert Family History Q&A, Newsround, Dates for your Diary and Homecoming Happenings as well as direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

This 40-page A4 issue is packed with special features and how-to guides to connect you with your Scottish heritage:

• Focus on Homecoming Scotland 2009
• Happy 250th birthday, Robert Burns (including the opportunity to listen to two of Burns' poems!)
• A hard life for the fisher lassies - social history around our shores
• EXCLUSIVE: advice from family history expert and TV presenter Nick Barratt
• Spotlight on Gretna
• Ayrshire archives - a rich source of history
• Peat cutting - trace your ancestors in the Highland and islands

Plus Expert Family History Q&A, Dates for your Diary, as well as plenty of direct weblinks to facilitate your online research.

Discover My Past Scotland is the only available geneaological and historical reference resource dedicated to Scotland and its people.

Uncover the lives of the people of Scotland and their place in history with this unique content rich online subscription. Find out how to trace relatives of Scottish ancestry abroad, discover information about clan history, traditional Scottish trades and interesting events across Scotland. A full and accomplished resource for professionals and those with a general interest in one of the most colourful nations on earth.