Using Poor Law Records for your Family History Research

Booking will close on Friday 30th January 2026 at 12 noon.

Due to limited resources we are UNABLE TO ACCEPT LATE BOOKINGS after this date.

This course will take place online through Zoom.

This workshop will look at how the responsibility for the poor changed from the Church to the State and the type of records that were created and how these can be used to further our understanding of our family history and the environment they lived in.

Tutor : Ken Nisbet

Ken Nisbet has been involved in family history research for over 40 years and is currently Secretary of the Scottish Genealogy Society and the Scottish Association of Family History Societies. He has been a member of the Scotland’s Family History Centre User Group since its inception. He is the resident expert on Scottish Ancestral Records Podcasts and does talks to many of Scotland’s Family History Societies. Through the Scottish Genealogy Society, he has had published a Roll of Honour for Nairnshire 1914-1921, and a History of 2nd Battalion 78th Foot 1804-1816.

Course Code 09 214

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