PHOTOGRAPHY
Scotland's Greatest Story can photograph or video record any location you wish that may connect to your family history, subject to the obtaining of any necessary permissions from the relevant landowners beforehand.
Photographs can either be taken digitally or on film, subject to your preferences and requirements; video recordings can be made on Mini DV format and transferred to DVD in either PAL or NTSC formats.
GRAVEYARD SEARCHES
Graveyards can provide a wealth of genealogical information, and we are happy to travel to any mainland Scottish kirkyard to carry out research and/or to photograph headstones.
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ENGLISH & IRISH RESEARCH
Scotland's Greatest Story is happy to carry out English and Irish research on your behalf. The methodology for this is very different to that for Scottish research, requiring the ordering of various certificates by post, and will hence take much longer to research, but it can be done.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
FAMILY HISTORY CHARTS
Scotland's Greatest Story is happy to recommend the services of designer and family historian Christine Welch. Through her Golden Memories family tree printing service, she offers affordable and high quality family history charts, in a range of sizes up to the British standard A0 size (seriously big!) and for as little as £10 per chart plus postage. Charts can be framed, and additional copies supplied presented in a scroll with ribbon, making a fantastic gift for other members of your family.
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An example of one of Christine's excellent family tree charts.
SURNAME DEFINITIONS
The meanings of surnames can be derived from many different sources, be they locational, descriptive, fealtic, patronymic or occupational. The root components of many names come from many of the languages used in Scotland throughout time - Latin, Brythonic Celtic (early Welsh), Scottish Gaelic or Old English (Anglo-Saxon).
Scotland's Greatest Story offers a look up service to explain the meanings of your Scottish surnames, with brief histories of their earliest known recordings.
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