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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.

We haved now re-opened our Garthspool premises for the year but will be observing the Shetland Holiday on 1st February 2023 when we will be closed. We look forward to seeing you soon

Conference 2022 Handout

The Sharing Shetland virtual conference was held on 22nd October 2022.

Please note that we will be closed from Monday 5th December 2022 and opening again on Monday 30 January 2023. Should you wish to make an appointment between those dates please contact: [email protected]

New content has been added. Data available for members to see includes: 21 of the MI books, and all the indexes to the full series of MI books.