News

The images for the kirkyards in Quarff and Gulberwick have been added to the website. Other areas will be added through the year. Watch for announcements!

The Shetland FHS AGM will be held at the Society premises at Garthspool on Friday 26th April at 4pm.

The Voar Coontin Kin has been added to the Members' Area.

More images have been added to the MI collection on the Members’ Area. All the Mis from the six graveyards and war memorial from Northmavine, the most northerly parish of the Shetland Mainland have been added.

More back numbers of Coontin Kin have been added to the Members' Only area of the website. The first 26 editions of the journal are now available there.

WHAT WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR IS HERE! Our lang-lippened Monumental Inscription images database makes it debut online today, nicely in time for Christmas. The first graveyards - Whalsay, Skerries, Lunna, Vidlin and Fair Isle - are now online in the Members’ Area of our website.

The latest edition of Coontin Kin is now available in the Members' Area.

We shall be closing the office on Friday December 1st until around Up Helly Aa (late January).

All welcome to this free collaborative event with the Shetland Family History Society event in the Shetland Library on Saturday 9th September at 7pm. Karen will be available to sign any books

The recent lecture by Frank Hay and John Goodlad at our popular Hay weekend.

All Welcome at the Launch of the Hay Surname Weekend.

The A.G.M. will be held at Garthspool on 21st April 2023 at 4:00 p.m.