Do you have Family History in Angus or Dundee? 

Tayroots.com links all of the local genealogy resources to make it easier to find your ancestors in the county of Angus or City of Dundee.

Tayroots will be working with Tay Valley Family History Society to offer advice all over Angus & Dundee this summer  - see our Ancestral Events

and check out the latest on the Roots Festival!

Let us help you take your family history research to another level, using the expertise of the local archives, registrars, libraries, and voluntary genealogists in the area. Follow the links for:

Local archives & registrars     Local family historians         Local heroes

Getting married here                National and local  links

Local history and culture         Touring In The Area                   

       

STOP PRESS

Don't miss the   Kirriemuir Festival of Music & Song this weekend - and especially the The Tayroots Concert Ceilidh Airlie Hotel, St Malcolms Wynd, 9.15pm  Tickets £6! Lots of superb performers coming to this annual TMSA event, in venues around the town. Kirriemuir is well known for the quality of its traditional music events - get yourself along there.

 

 

Angus & Dundee Roots Festival 2010 

 

Thursday 23 - Monday 27 September 2010 

 

Come and join in! Check out our 
Special Festival Accommodation Offers 

for Roots Festival visitors!
Great deals a superb local accommodation.

   

Free one-stop shop genealogy workshop in Dundee and genealogy fair in Montrose, including advice, workshops, and talks:

 

Free Tayroots Luncheon at Dundee City Chambers hosted by the Lord Provost of Dundee and addressed by  Dr Bruce Durie, genealogist, broadcaster and writer;

 

an expert Scottish wills workshop;

 

Free recording by the BBC  of 'Digging Up Your Roots' Radio Scotland's popular genealogy programme;

 

a concert at a beautiful National Trust for Scotland property by popular singer-songwriter Jim Malcolm, interpreting the songs of Robert Burns;

 

Free inaugural Tayroots McManus Lecture, given on Sunday 26th at the beautfully refurbished Mcmanus Galleries in Dundee by Nick Barratt, of BBC TV Who Do You Think You Are?;

 

a magical evening of stories and music by master-storyteller Bob Pegg and storyteller and harpist Heather Yule;

 

Free Birthday Bash and  Open Celebration of  21 Years of the Angus Archives; traditional music sessions at friendly venues around Angus; 

 

Events are free or modestly priced

Places limited for some events  Tickets for events with admission charges available mid-August from Dundee Box Office. Reserve your seats for free events now using our form at

  Angus & Dundee Roots Festival 2010

Dundee Box Office, 6 City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BG Map  Tel: 434940 Fax: 434451
Email: citybox@dundeecity.gov.uk

Opening hours:
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri, 9 am to 4.30 pm Saturday, 9.30 am to 1.30 pm

 

 

See previous  Roots Festival images  or watch our video about the 2008 event. 

 

Traditional Music in pubs and hotels around Angus this summer

 

 

Tayroots is sponsoring the Tayroots TradAngus traditional music sessions throughout Angus this summer, in partnership with local musicians and singers. Catch a session when you visit - bring your whistle or paper and comb and join in!

 

 

 

 

    

 

Dig up your roots online!

Angus is first local authority in Scotland to make local council burial records searchable on the Internet with Deceased Online.   Read more... 

 

 

The Tayroots Pass Visitor Offers 2010 are now available at Tourist Information centres in Dundee, Arbroath & Brechin.

Use the Pass to receive a variety of offers at 12 top visitor centres, from gorgeous Glenesk to the shores of the Tay, and from castles to golf. 
 Get your Pass Book stamped up at each venue to be entered for a draw to win your own professionally researched family tree and a two night stay in one of Scotland's Best B&Bs!  More...

  

 

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Free Family History Booklet

Tick the box on the Tayroots online registration form to receive your free family history research booklet. Our new booklet  Researching Your Family History in Angus and Dundee is a handy guide for anyone interested in finding out more about ancestry in this area.  There is no charge for the booklet or postage, whether you are in Brechin or Bali!

 

  

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