Scottish Indexes Conference XXXIV - Saturday 14 November 2026

Interested in tracing your Scottish genealogy? The Scottish Indexes Conference is an opportunity to learn new research skills, discover diverse records and see how others have put these into practice. If you want to trace your Scottish family tree, this is the event for you.

Don't live in the UK? No problem. We are live from 7 am to 11 pm UK time. We do this to make our conferences time-zone friendly. Each presentation is shown twice, once between 7 am and 3 pm UK time, then again between 3 pm and 11 pm. You can come and go throughout the day. A schedule will be posted on our website a week or so before the conference.

Donations

This conference is run through the kindness of your donations. We are delighted to be able to continue hosting these for the Scottish genealogy community.

If you are in a position to donate at this time, we greatly appreciate your support. We know that these are challenging financial times for many so we are keeping the conferences free with no recommended donation. We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has donated to keep these conferences going.

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Registration Instructions

It is free to register for this event on Zoom. Click here, fill out the registration form and you should receive an email confirmation within a few minutes. You will also receive reminders in the week before the conference.

Presenters

These were the speakers at the September 2026 Conference. Details on speakers for our November conference will be coming soon.

'Using DNA To Break A Scottish Double Brick Wall' by Michelle Leonard, genealogist at Genes & Genealogy

'Maritime Records for Family and Social History' by Phil Astley, City Archivist for Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives

'Tips for Tracing Your 18th Century Scottish Ancestors Online' by Andrew Armstrong, genealogist at Relatively Scottish

'A Death on the Berwick Sloop "Juno"' by Margaret Fox, Archivist at Traquair House

'Using Scottish Indexes: Civil Courts & Health' by Emma Maxwell, genealogist and co-founder of Scottish Indexes

'Accessing Records in the NRS: tips from an expert' by Graham Maxwell, genealogist and co-founder of Scottish Indexes

Discover more about our speakers and their topics here.

Schedules & Handouts

Handouts: Emma has prepared the conference handout for the 33rd Scottish Indexes Conference on 19 September 2026 which includes information on all the presenters and many of the resources mentioned during the day. Download the PDF handout here. If you are looking for handouts from previous conferences please see our Past Conferences page.

Andrew Armstrong has kindly prepared a handout for his presentation 'Tips for Tracing Your 18th Century Scottish Ancestors Online' which is available here.

Schedules: About a week before our next conference we will post schedules in a variety of timezones.

Speakers Past and Present

Discover more about the experts who have spoken at the Scottish Indexes Conferences.

Past Conferences

These events are designed to be interactive and are best watched live. Some presentations from previous conferences are available to watch again. Visit our Past Conferences page to see what you have missed so far and catch up with some of the presentations.