Digging Up Your Roots - Special Programme to Look at Scottish Diaspora

The producer of BBC Radio Scotland's family history programme 'Digging Up Your Roots', Rhona Brudenell, has announced a one-off hour long programme looking at the Scottish diaspora which will be aired during the Commonwealth Games.
She wants to feature stories of people who have researched their family history and uncovered interesting tales of Scots who left their homeland to seek new lives elsewhere (in particular, to countries which are now part of the British Commonwealth) or people who live overseas whose family history research brought them back here to Scotland?   Either way, she would love to hear from you!

Her direct contact details are:
Phone 01224 384881
or email her at rhona.brudenell AT  bbc.co.uk, replacing the spaces and AT with the @ sign.

Magazine Article Index Updated

The index to the articles in our magazine has been updated to the latest issue.

There are now more than 1,500 topics indexed.

Search the Article Index.

There's a full set of our magazines in each of the Scottish Borders libraries and at our own research room at Old Gala House, Galashiels.

Alternatively, we'll be pleased to send you a photocopy of any article at a cost of £1 plus postage; please email Mary Thomson or send a message via our Contacts page choosing 'Order for Publications' from the contact type list.

St Boswells Fair

St Boswells Community Council are organising an exhibition about St Boswells Fair which will be held in St Boswells Public Hall from 18 to 20 July. The Hawick Heritage Hub will be putting on a display about the gypsies and the fair and we will have a stall too. If you have any photos or memorabilia relating to the fair and would be willing to lend them for the exhibition, please contact Ralph Parker on 01835 822528.

Friends of Kelso Museum Syllabus

Members might be interested in the following series of lectures during March by;

FRIENDS OF KELSO MUSEUM

PUBLIC LECTURES

March 2014

Abbey Row Community Centre

Room 4    7:30 p.m. except 26^th March lecture

5th	Women’s Suffrage - a Border Perspective Gordon Macdonald
12th	75 Years of Photography in Kelso Alistair Innes
19th	Bondagers Dinah Iredale
26th (7pm)	Kelso THI update – Mark Douglas BArch, Dip Arch,Dip T&CP, PG Cert BA(PSM), IHBC followed by Kelso Abbey and a mid sixteenth century proposal  for its fortification Professor Richard Fawcett, OBE, PhD, FRSE, FSA Scot.

All welcome

Entry by donation (Free to Friends of Kelso Museum)

For further information please contact 01573 224 951

New Family History Site for Glasgow

The latest VisitScotland newsletter, as well as containing a Homecoming 2014 video with great landscapes and weird music but doesn't mention the Scottish Borders, also has a link to a family history site for Glasgow that I've not seen before.

It turns out to be the  new Mitchell Library family history centre.

It has a blog and a wide variety of family history and social history guides.