Alberta Family Histories Society received this information about the upcoming meeting of Kelowna and District Genealogical Society.
Any Scots in your family tree? Be sure to register for the Kelowna & District Genealogical Society’s January 6th general meeting! Bruce Durie, a renowned Scottish genealogy expert, will be speaking to us at 3am from Aberdeen, Scotland – what a great guy to sacrifice his sleep for us!!
Topic: Scottish Wills, Testaments and Related Documents
There is more to inheritance than just the 611,000 Scottish Wills and Testaments readily available from 1513 to 1925. Testaments don’t always contain “Wills” and may not even name the heirs. Scotland has no PROBATE as such. Also Wills and Testaments were usually concerned with MOVEABLE property. Land and other IMMOVEABLE property was transferred on death by RETOURS OF SERVICES OF HEIRS. Land sales were recorded as SASINES. So, how do we use all these records for genealogy?
Dr. Bruce Durie is considered one of Scotland’s top Genealogists and Heraldists, with an international reputation. He is best known for his many BBC radio shows, over 30 books, and for founding the much-acclaimed Masters Program in Genealogical Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. His background is in medicine and neuropharmacology with an additional doctoral degree in history and education. Bruce is Shennachie to the Chief of Durie and Academician of the Académie Internationale de Généalogie (the only member from Scotland). In 2015-2016 he was Fulbright Senior Scottish Studies Scholar, spending eight months researching “Scottish Migration into Colonial America” in North Carolina, USA. Born in the Kingdom of Fife, he now lives in the North-East of Scotland.
Date: Monday, January 6, 2025, 7pm
Presenter: Bruce Durie
Location: via Zoom
Price: KDGS members Free; non-members $10; REGISTRATION REQUIRED for EVERYONE (https://kdgs.ca/2024/january-2025-general-meeting/)
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