Your journey starts with you

Write down your name and date and place of birth. This is the start of your family tree. Now add your husband or wife and your date and place of marriage. Next add your children, your brothers and sisters, parents and so on. You’ll be surprised how much information you have already.

Gather together old photographs, letters and other documents. And don’t forget to talk to elderly relatives. Creating a family tree – the births, marriages and deaths that form the punctuation marks in every family’s story – is only part of the process. To really understand your Scottish ancestry you need to learn about the places your ancestors lived and their way of life.

This is where AncestralScotland.com can really start to help.