For those interested, Aberdeen University's Centre for Continuing Education runs an online course "Family history in Northern Scotland", for which I am the tutor. It caters for beginners of all ages, anywhere in the world. The latest course finished a month ago, so you would need to ask the university when it proposes to hold the next one. I am loath to promise anything, as eduication budget cuts might affect the Centre, but as the course is I think self-supporting, it should continue to run. The university decides the number of students it needs to run the course. While there is a bias towards the northern counties, the course covers all of Scotland, as most record types are national, even if some operate at parish level. Gordon Johnson.

Gordon, Looking at the University's website and the course catalogue, the /Family History in Northern Scotland/ course appears to be a second semester online offering at the undergraduate level. The course description is at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/lifelonglearning/history/documents/Prospectus10-11.pdf Some questions: a. How do you, as instructor, define "northern Scotland?" You did mention it on the Angus forum - does it include Angus? b. How "beginner" is the material? c. Would someone taking the course from North America be at any kind of a disadvantage? There are a bunch of other interesting course offerings there as well! Thanks! On 6/29/2011 12:20 PM, Gordon Johnson wrote: > For those interested, Aberdeen University's Centre for Continuing > Education runs an online course "Family history in Northern Scotland", > for which I am the tutor. It caters for beginners of all ages, anywhere > in the world. The latest course finished a month ago, so you would need > to ask the university when it proposes to hold the next one. I am loath > to promise anything, as eduication budget cuts might affect the Centre, > but as the course is I think self-supporting, it should continue to run. > The university decides the number of students it needs to run the course. > While there is a bias towards the northern counties, the course covers > all of Scotland, as most record types are national, even if some operate > at parish level. > Gordon Johnson. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >