Family history session at Airdrie store

Lanarkshire Family History Society will hold its latest monthly“drop-in” information session at Tesco in Airdrie on Monday, November 13.

It will take place from 7pm to 9pm in the community room at the supermarket in the town’s retail park, with all those interested in researching their family’s story welcome to attend.

Society members will offer assistance on starting to build a family tree, or breaking through genealogical“brick walls”.

Meanwhile, the society’s next meeting takes place next Thursday, November 9, when the guest speaker will be Ailsa Robertson from Registers of Scotland.

She will give an overview of the organisation’s work in compiling and maintaining 18 registers relating to land, property and other legal documents.

They include the 400-year-old General Register of Sasines, which is the oldest national land register in the world; and is now gradually being replaced by the digital map-based land register.

A society spokesperson said:“Property records can be a useful way of finding out more about the lives of our forebears, and sometimes the only way to discover the identity of family members in the 18th and earlier centuries.”

Next week’s meeting takes place at 7pm in the GLO Centre in Motherwell, and all are welcome to attend.