Foundations of Scottish Genealogy 1 of 12: The Top 3 Resources

Dr. Bruce Durie
May 2, 2019
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About this webinar

Finding your Scottish ancestors is impossible without the vast and essential resources of ScotlandsPeople, ScotlandsPlaces and the National Library of Scotland. This introductory session will show participants how to register for and access these resources, and exactly what is and is not free to search and/or download. This class, an essential prerequisite for the others following, provides the foundation for this exclusive 12-part series of Scottish genealogy taught by one of Scotland's top genealogists, Dr. Bruce Durie.

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About the speaker

Dr. Bruce Durie is considered one of Scotland’s top genealogists, with an international reputation. He is perhaps best known for his eight-year BBC radio series, “Digging Up Your Roots” and “A House w...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    6 years ago

    Absolutely brilliant! \n\nBruce's knowledge is overwhelming\n\nAbsolutely incredible!\n\nAmazing and helpful presenter! June 7 is on my calendar!\n\nAwesome, will be studying the next 5 webinars. Thank you for making this series available.\n\nBeautiful examples, intelligent and humorous presenter - doesn't get any better than this!\n\nBruce is extremely interesting. Could listen to him for hours more. Seminar is so useful that I'm going to sign up for membership!\n\nCannot wait till watch the webinars.\n\nDr. Durie was a pleasure to listen to - and so knowledgeable!\n\nEnjoyed Bruce's style and presentation very much. It was a teaser though to the next webinars in the series, so I'm looking forward even more to those.\n\nEnjoyed him very much!\n\nenjoyed refreshing memory of the various Scottish sources and their peculiar take on wills and other records. Look for to using my new knowledge to get back to Scottish research. Thank you\n\nEntertaining as well as informative; great delivery!\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent as always! Thanks!\n\nExcellent detail for a summary. Particularly blessed as I won the 6 webinar door prize. Thank you very, very much. Robert\n\nExcellent presentation, Very understandable as Bruce goes slowly and has very good slides. He is quite humorous also.\n\nexcellent so helpful\n\nExcellent speaker\n\nExcellent! Very informative.\n\nExcellent!!!\n\nExcellent, do a lot of research in Scotland, much valuable information\n\nExcellent. Informative and entertaining at the same time.\n\nFab, I won't miss any of his webinars\n\nFabulous. Clear, distinct instruction on how and where to find the records we need to trace our ancestors. Thank you for getting Bruce to provide this series to us\n\nFantastic information! I look forward to the rest of the webinars. Many thanks from Rusnack, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.\n\nFantastic webinar and the series looks very interesting a will be viewing all of the webinars. \n\nFascination. Great info. looking forward to the next 11 episodes

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    6 years ago

    Good.\n\nGreat info. Enjoyed & will use.\n\ngreat info-next stop Scotland's People! And of course listening to next 5 webinar's!\n\nGreat introduction to the series. Very engaging and informative. Bruce is an absolute legend! Many thanks.\n\nGreat stuff; great start!\n\nGreat! I missed first half but know I can watch it later. Looking forward to the rest of the series. He is funny! :)\n\nGreat. Speaker really knowledgeable!\n\nHave not done a lot of Scottish research because I wasn't sure where to start. This has been very informative and I will certainly be back on the 7th to do the next one. My husband and I both have ancestry in Scotland and of course \nvisiting there is high on our bucket list. Thank you Bruce for sharing your wealth of knowledge. \n\nHe was an absolutely excellent speaker! So knowledgeable and friendly. Thank you for sharing with us!\n\nI am really looking forward to this series from Dr. Durie—he is such a good teacher, and very enjoyable also!\n\nI loved Bruce's presentation. He is so open to sharing his knowledge, he makes it easy & interesting to follow. So looking forward to the rest of the series! :)\n\nI loved this webinar. I am adopted but recently found my maternal birth family.\n\nInformative and entertaining!\n\ninformative for future webinars in series\n\nInteresting overview on a useful topic, and easy to follow.\n\nIt was great. Very excited about the rest of the classes. Thank you!\n\nLearned a lot, thanks.\n\nLiked the broad sweep of webinar, anticipating the rest of the series\n\nLooking forward to the entire series!\n\nLooking forward to the rest!!!!!\n\nLooking forward to the series!\n\nLooking forward to viewing the whole series. \n\nLots of good information and grateful for chance to ask a question\n\nLove Dr Durie\n\nLoved it! Can't wait to see and hear all twelve.\n\nLovely speaking voice\n\nNice coverage of free information available.\n\nOutstanding presentation and excellent content!\n\nOutstanding!\n\nPerfectly delightful and knowledgeable lecturer. Very helpful webinar.\n\nPretty good overview\n\nScotland with Bruce D.\n\nSo much information given. Wow!\n\nSo much information referenced! I look forward to a deeper diver in each of these areas through the remaining webinars in the series.\n\nSo wonderful! Thank you so much for this series!\n\nThe speaker was amazingly knowledgeable about genealogy. He was also quite funny. This was very helpful, thank you.\n\nThis introductory webinar created several questions which I am looking forward to finding the answers too in the upcoming webinars in this series.\n\nThis is the first webinar I have heard. I enjoyed it. How can I get the pdf of today's webinar?\n\nThis seminar ignited hope in me that I will be able to find more about my 5G grandfather who came to America from Scotland about 1735\n\nThis was a helpful overview. I especially appreciated hearing the presenter decipher the script and semantics of old records.\n\nTotally interesting! So, possibly my Scottish ancestors came from Ireland! So much to learn.\n\nTruly fantastic. Might I suggest that you have a webinar of just question and answers with Dr. Drurie;-)))))\n\nVery good. I will watch in full at a later date.\n\nVery knowledgable, and entertaining to listen to! I look forward to hearing more from him. \n\nWonderful introduction to Scottish records!\n\nWonderful speaker for this topic. I really appreciate having a native of the area present rather than a lecture from a researchers.

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