Introduction to Family History – a four-week in-person course in Motherwell

Explore your family tree over 4 relaxed and friendly workshops using birth, death and marriage certificates, census returns, cemetery and poor relief records. Hints and tips on how to dig up the past using online and other resources.

Session 1, 3rd September: How to start researching your family tree
Session 2, 10th September: Cemetery and Poor Law records and other archives registers
Session 3, 17th September: Online resources for family history researchers
Session 4, 24th September: Introduction to reading old handwriting and archives records for visualising your ancestors’ lives

Course presenters: Casey Moore (Local Studies Officer), Wiebke McGhee (Archivist)

To book email heritagecentre@northlan.gov.uk

Venue: Conference Room, North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre, Motherwell