News

More Monumental Inscriptions have been added to our collection in the Members' Area. These cover all of Delting parish.

We are pleased to announce that the Shetland Family History Society (SFHS) AGM will be held in the board room at the Shetland Amenity Trust, Garthspool, Lerwick on Thursday 22nd May at 4.30pm. The SFHS entrance is at the rear side door of the premises- please use bell and someone will let you in.

Our premises at Garthspool are reopening on Monday 27th January. We will be open 2-4 every week day afternoon thereafter, including the day after Up Helly Aa!

The Yule 2024 Coontin Kin is now available in the Members' Area.

We have added the transcriptions and images for Whiteness and Weisdale to the Monumental Inscriptions collection in the Members' Area. There was, briefly, a technical issue which meant that the transcriptions only were added initially. The images are now there as well.

The Hairst Coontin Kin is now available in the Members' Area.

The speakers for our 2024 Conference, on the 21st September 2024, have been announced. They are detailed in the Events section of the Website.

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.