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Hello!
There are just two spots left for our upcoming June 13-20 Edinburgh research trip. If you haven't already signed up, don't miss your chance! You can register here: https://scottishgenealogy.ca/registration/
If you have already signed up, you'll get your first attendee-specific newsletter in about two weeks, around the end of this month.
RootsTech
I had a great time at RootsTech in Salt Lake City. I reconnected with a few friends and colleagues from all over and met new ones, too, including, for the first time in person, one of my tutors from my University of Dundee masters in family and local history program. His excellent talk made me wish we'd had in-person lectures for his class.
Among the best lectures I attended all weekend were ones you can watch for free at RootsTech.org: Church Records by Morag Peers, all about the information beyond vital records that you can find in Scottish church records, and an excellent demonstration of the long and challenging process of solving genealogical mysteries by Nick Barratt (the aforementioned Dundee tutor) called The Lost Child.
I also had the opportunity to spend a few hours at the FamilySearch library while I was in Salt Lake City. It's an impressive place, filled with resources including microfilms, books, maps, online resources and more, hundreds of double-monitor computer stations to work at, and all sorts of specialty equipment, like setups to convert reel-to-reel tapes and other old media to digital, scanning stations, and recording rooms for oral history. I was immediately offered a tour when I walked in, and there was no shortage of help available for people who needed it.
If you can't get to the main FamilySearch Library, you can access a lot of their resources for free on the FamilySearch.org website, and even more at affiliate libraries all over the world.
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