Exploring Your Family History Resources

Family History and Ancestral Tourism – are you making the most of your resources? Take the opportunity to come along and discuss the subject with archive colleagues. It’s also a good chance to visit a purpose built, £10.5 million Heritage Lottery Funded facility!

This training event is limited to 30 places on a first come first serve basis.

Venue - Highland Archive & Registration Centre, Bught Road, Inverness, IV3 5SS, Scotland.

Date – 26 September 2014.

Programme
10.00     Registration. Tea/Coffee

10.30     Welcome

10.40     “Engaging with other Heritage Providers”, Chris Halliday, Family History Leader,
                Highland Archive Service

11.10     “The Aberdeen & North East Scotland Ancestral Tourism Partnership”, Phil Astley,
City Archivist, Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives

11.50     Workshop. “Engaging with local groups”

12.20     Lunch

1.00        “The Mystery of the Blue Jacket Boy-How the Orkney Archive Blog Helped Bring a WW1
                Sailor’s Letter Home”, Lucy Gibbon, Assistant Archivist, Orkney Library & Archive

1.40        Workshop. “The pros & cons of social media”

2.20        Tea/coffee

2.40        “Collaboration for Homecoming”, Julie Corcoran, Network Librarian Inverness Library,
Cait McCullagh, Curator (Collections Engagement) Inverness Museum & Art Gallery &
Janet Baker, Education & Outreach Co-ordinator, Highland Archive Service

3.20        Workshop “Where does your service sit in your organisation: is it a help or a hindrance”

3.45        Q&A

4.00        Close

A tour of the building will be available at 4pm for those wishing to stay behind.

For details on booking, follow the link below:
http://archives.org.uk/training/training.html