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Digging Up Your Roots

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Episode 1

Duration:
55 minutes
First broadcast:
Sunday 03 January 2010

Bill Whiteford presents new family histories and genealogy advice, plus genealogist Bruce Durie explores the lives of Scots who worked in iron foundries, mills and on canals.

  • ANCESTORS IN INDUSTRY

    In the first programme of the new series genealogist Bruce Durie and archivist and historian Michael Moss explore the ancestors who worked on the canals, in iron foundries, in the textiles industry and in stonemasonry.

  • THE TANNAHILL CONNECTION

    THE TANNAHILL CONNECTION

    Huntly writer Maggie Craig wants to know if she is related to the Weaver Poet Robert Tannahill.

  • THE WEAVER POET

    THE WEAVER POET

    We find out more about Robert Tannahill by taking a tour of his former home with Valerie Reilly from Paisley Museum.

  • CANAL BOATMAN'S DEATH

    CANAL BOATMAN'S DEATH

    Kenneth Synnot wants to find out more about the life and death of his wife's great great grandfather, who was a canal boatman.

  • WILSONTOWN IRONWORKS

    WILSONTOWN IRONWORKS

    Listener David Wilson wonders if he is related to the founders of the Wilsontown Ironworks. Forest ranger Emma Stewart, who helps look after the former industrial site, answers some of his questions.

  • BRIDGE BUILDERS

    BRIDGE BUILDERS

    Sheena McIntyre wonders why her stonemason ancestors went to the Transvaal, where they lost their lives.

  • MASTER WOOD CARVER

    MASTER WOOD CARVER

    Gail Wintersgill has questions about her great grandfather who helped create a grenade at one of Scotland's most famous iron foundries.

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