The 25th Scottish Indexes Conference will be held on 7 September 2024. As always, this is a free online event. 

Here are the first five speakers to be announced:

‘Searching for ancestors in The Royal Mail Archive’ by Susannah Coster, archivist at The Postal Museum in London

‘Parochial Matters: parishes, districts and counties’ by Robert Urquhart of abbotshall.net 

‘An introduction to the Forfeited Estates papers in the National Records of Scotland’ by Tessa Spencer, Head of Outreach and Learning at the National Records of Scotland 

‘Scottish Burghs and Trade Incorporations’ by Chris Paton, genealogist and author of The GENES Blog

‘Criminal Ancestors: piecing together their story from a variety of sources’ by Emma Maxwell, genealogist at Scottish Indexes

Find out more and register at https://www.scottishindexes.com/conference.aspx.