North Perthshire Family History Group

Research Room in Moulin Kirk
Mon., Wed., Sat., 12noon-4p.m.
(Kirk open daily 12noon – 4p.m.)

At the History Circle meeting on Mon. Sep. 27th 2010, at 7.30p.m. in theTryst, Pitlochry, the well-known historian Prof. T.C.Smout will give a talk entitled “Using the Perthshire Woods 1600-1900”. All welcome.

Digging Up Your Roots Series 6
Transmission: January 9th February 27th 2011

BBC Radio Scotland’s popular genealogy programme Digging Up Your Roots is to return for a new series in early 2011.

They are keen to hear about family mysteries, questions about the lives of ancestors, as well as efforts to delve into the past.

You can write to the Digging Up Your Roots team at: Digging Up Your Roots, BBC Scotland, Beechgrove Terrace, Aberdeen, AB15 5ZT or email them at diggingupyourroots@bbc.co.uk or Phone: 01224 384 881

NPFHG PUBLICATIONS
Monumental Inscriptions:
Aberfeldy Cemetery - £6.00 NEW
Moulin Church - £4.00
Blair Atholl - £4.00
Holy Trinity, Pitlochry - £3.00
Kilmaveonaig - £3.00
Tenandry Church, Bonskeid, & Fincastle- £3.00
St Mary's Church Grandtully - £3.00

Moulin 1820 Census Transcription - £6.00 + £2.50 p&p

Pitlochry Memorials – lists the names on Pitlochry war memorial and elsewhere - £2.00

These may be purchased at NPFHG meetings, from committee members, or from A.K.Bell Library shop, Perth, and Tay Valley FHS, Dundee.
For mail order please add £1.50 per book p&p (except for Moulin 1820 Census which is heavier). Postage cost for multiple purchases on request. Cheques or postal orders should be made payable to NPFHG and sent with your order to NPFHG Publications, c/o 21a Robertson Crescent, Pitlochry, PH16 5HD. Please make sure your name & address is clearly legible, and include your phone no. in case there should be any problem with the order.

Borenich Burial Ground website news
All the Census returns for Strathtummel 1841-1901 have been completed and updated with additional background material. A number of family histories have been added to the Record Room. Stewarts and MacLauchlans who emigrated to Nova Scotia, and Douglas families.

A Gazetteer of the Place Names of Blair Atholl Parish has been produced, based on information from James Stobie's map of Perthshire, and the first Ordnance Survey Map of the area. Feedback would be welcomed.