Official Opening of Society Resource Centre
Our Resource Centre was officially opened on Tuesday 22nd September 2010, by Provost Tom Curley of North Lanarkshire Council and Provost Russell Clearie MBE of South Lanarkshire Council.
The image on the right shows the presentation of the Opening Plaque by both Provosts.
Shown in the photograph are Provost Tom Curley on the right, Provost Russell Clearie MBE on the left, LFHS Chairman Bob Stewart in the centre and at the back Councillor Jim Logue Convener of Leisure and Learning North Lanarkshire Council.
Councillor John Pentland NLC and Councillor Denis McKenna SLC were also in attendance.
Forthcoming Speakers
We invite non members to attend our Society speaker meetings.Meetings are held at 7:00 pm on 2nd Thursday of each month (except July and August) 7:00pm - 9:00pm
in the GLO Centre, 78 Muir Street, Motherwell. ML1 1BN
Thursday 14th January 2010
- Society Meeting: Campbell Thomson and Agnes Dougan "Lanarkshire Yeomanry"
Informative and explicate stories about Lanarkshire's Yeomanry Regiments the 155 and 156
Thursday, 11th February 2010
- Society Meeting: Dave Webster "Why Can't I find That Record?"
Dave is a genealogist, author and BBC presenter.
Thursday, 11th March 2010
- Society Meeting: Pam McNicol "The Welfare of Families, Records of the Poor Law"
Pam is the Archivist with Stirling Council Archives
Thursday 8th April 2010
- Society Meeting: Elizabeth Carmichael "Hot off the Press"
Elizabeth was Education Officer at the Mitchell Library, her session will be about the use of newspapers in Family History
Thursday 13th May 2010
- Society Meeting: Paula williams "Putting Your Relatives in Their Place"
Paula is from the National Library of Scotland and will be talking about using maps in research
Thursday 10th June 2010
- Society Meeting: Duncan Close "Wanlockhead and Leadhills Lead Mining"
Thursday 9th September 2010
- Society Meeting: Bruce Durie "Scottish Heraldry"
Author, University Lecturer and BBC Radio Presenter, Bruce's talk should not be missed, he gave a most interesting talk in 2009 on "Researching Houses"
Thursday 14th October 2010
- Society Meeting: Peter Aitchison and Andrew Cassell "The Lowland Clearances"
Peter and Andrew are co-authors of the book: "The Lowland Clearances, Scotlands Silent Revolution, 1760-1830"
Thursday 11th November 2010
- Society Meeting: Chris Paton "The Mount Stewart Murder"
Genealogist, author and journalist, Chris speaks about the trial and follow-up research by himself on his Grandmother's murder
Thursday 9th December 2010
- Society Meeting: Jess Smith "Travelling People"
Author and Traditional Storyteller, Jess speaks about Gypsy life as one who was born and lived a traveller's life
Speakers at Society meetings occasionally may change at the last minute, due to circumstances beyond our control.