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Genealogy

If your ancestry is Scots, VisitScotland and the Forestry Commission want old family photographs

Monday, 29th December, 2008 | Genealogy, News | None

When you think about ‘the family tree’ there’s is after all a logic in Forestry Commission Scotland teaming up with VisitScotland in this initiative. During Homecoming Scotland 2009 the agencies want to put together a gallery of photographs from people…

Homecoming Scotland 2009 video promotion launched

Friday, 28th November, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Festivals, Genealogy, History, News | None

VisitScotland hae launched a video advertisement to draw attention to the forthcoming Homecoming Scotland 2009 festival.

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Red Hot Chilli Pipers to Play Dunoon on St Andrews Day

Monday, 27th October, 2008 | Community News, Cowal, Events, Festivals, Genealogy, Piping, Tourism | None

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November 26, 2008
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Dunoon & Cowal Marketing Group’s (DCMG) have just announced their Annual Awards Ceremony and AGM and this year it looks like being a really spicey event. Not only are the Red Hot Chilli Pipers playing, but they’re also presenting…

Check out Jura’s Digital Archive

Sunday, 28th September, 2008 | Community News, Genealogy, Hebridean islands, History | None

Compiled progressively by The Feolin Study Centre on Argyll’s Isle of Jura, the Jura Digital Archive, available online, currently carries material on Jura’s Gaelic Landscape, the Jura Parish Register and the Kileamadil Cemetary Graves Inventory. If you have an interest…

Canadian Passenger Lists 1865 - 1935 now online

Thursday, 18th September, 2008 | Genealogy, News | None

Over a million Scots who crossed the Atlantic in the last half of the nineteenth and the first third third of the twentieth century, included many who went to Canada, then described as ‘The last, best west’. This description was…