To tie in with our Magazine Article Index resource page, we are starting to make past issues of Borders Family History Society magazines available to purchase and download immediately from the Shop. We are starting from the very beginning! - Issue No:1 from 1985 is now available.

Borders Family History Society - Past Magazines

Issue Number: 1
Published: 1985

The first ever magazine (or "Newsletter" as it was referred to then) published by the Borders Family History Society in 1985.

• Contents include:
• Chairman's Letter
• Inaugural Lecture by Donald Whyte FHG, FSG "Basic Sources for Scottish Genealogy & Family History"
• Fee's for Searches & Extracts at New Register House, Edinburgh
• "At the Beginning" by Peter S. Elliot
• Useful Books
• Queries
• A Flow Diagram of Family Historical Research Procedures
• Border Treaties of Assurance
• Monipenny's List of the Border Clans in 1597