September Meeting: September 25, 10:00 AM MT
Speaker: Morag Peers
An Into to Scottish Clans, Tartan and Heraldry
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Scottish Clans, Tartans and Coats of Arms. If you have Scottish ancestry you’ve probably wondered what clan you belong to, or which tartan you should be wearing. We’ll discuss what the clan system was as well and whether it still has relevance today, talk about the basics of heraldry and who can and cannot use coats of arms, and look at rules around the use and wearing of tartans. Finally, we’ll learn about how linking into a Scottish noble family can help progress your own genealogy.
Morag Peers is a freelance genealogist based in Glasgow, Scotland. She started getting interested in her own family history as a teenager when a visiting uncle from America shared a huge, hand written family tree tracing her paternal line back to the early 17th century. She spent the next few decades researching both sides of her ancestry, finding deep roots in the Scottish Borders on the paternal line, and Ireland on the maternal line. In 2020, she started studying for the MSc in Genealogical Studies at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, completing large research projects on two Scottish Reformatory schools, and Scottish passport records.
Morag now has her own genealogy business, helping people discover their own Scottish or British roots, looking into house histories and offers ancestral tourism services for overseas visitors keen to visit the places their ancestors lived, worked and went to church. Away from genealogy, Morag has three teenage children, and is interested in crafts and visiting as many parts of the world as possible.
October Meeting: October 23, 10:00 AM MT
Speaker: Teresa Brooks
Family Folklore: A Quest for Truth
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Teresa Brooks has been in finance for 40 plus years and with a passion for genealogy. She has been a hobby genealogist for 45 years. She has been a family history consultant for her church on and off for 20 years and helps anyone who asks. She loves to find the secrets or unknown in families, especially her own. She is the treasurer for UGA and has been for 5 years and loves serving with the others on the board and the members.ee teenage children, and is interested in crafts and visiting as many parts of the world as possible.
