This coffee chat meets on a rotation basis on Thursday nights from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Watch the local events calendar for dates and times. People meet online by Zoom to chat about their successes and frustrations. Sharing your experiences might help someone else in the group. To register or for more information, contact: coffeechat@bcgs.ca

Facilitator: Lorraine Irving & Eunice Robinson

Announcement and News

**CELTIC FEST - March 25, 2023 1pm - 4pm Surrey Museum, 17710-56a St. Surrey**

Scottish Genealogy and History Websites

Scotland's People Scottish civil registrations, parish records, census records and much more. Free to search, but pay to view records. Has useful guides.

National Records of Scotland General Register Office for Scotland & National Archives. Has useful guides.

Coverage of Old Parish Records (National Records of Scotland)

National Register of Archives for Scotland (National Records of Scotland) Survey of papers of individuals, estates, and families

National Library of Scotland Maps, including Ordnance & military maps, directories, newspapers, more than 50,000 digital images and 150,000 records

Scottish Archive Network (SCAN)

Scottish Genealogy Society

Highland Clearances

Scottish Records Association A free downloadable book on “Scottish Handwriting 1500 - 1700”.

Anglo-Scottish Family History Society (Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society). Scottish Strays, Scottish Marriage Index, Search for free, add your own family details

Scottish Places

Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (AÀA) - Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland Searchable database of Gaelic place-names in Scotland

Scotland's Places Searchable gazetteer, official surveys and reports. Also searchable tax rolls, Ordnance Survey name books by subscription. Sponsored by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), the National Records of Scotland (NRS), the National Library of Scotland (NLS), with support from the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Government

Glasgow

Glasgow Family History Mitchell Library and Glasgow Archives, resources and information to assist in researching Glasgow ancestors

Virtual Mitchell, Glasgow Old photographs of Glasgow streets, buildings and people

Edinburgh

Capital Collections The image library for the collections of Edinburgh Libraries and Museums and Galleries

Edinburgh City Archives

Inner Hebrides (including Coll, Colonsay, Eigg, Islay, Jura, Mull, Raasay, Rùm, Skye, Tiree)

Islay Genealogy Guides, indexes, documents

Islay History A blog by Neil Gordon-Orr

Islay articles and photographs Becky Williamson, Geograph® Britain and Ireland project - collecting "geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland..."]

Ultimate Online Guide to the Isle of Islay Travel, history, photographs, free newsletter

Isle of Tiree Genealogy

Outer Hebrides

Roots Hebrides Genealogy for Lewis, Harris, Uist, Barra, Eriskay, Taransay, Scalpay, Berneray

Fàilte gu Hebrides.ca From 1838, hundreds of families from the Isle of Lewis were evicted from their homes and sent to the Eastern Townships of Quebec and Bruce County, Ontario

St. Kilda World Heritage Site, National Trust for Scotland