Homecoming 2009 has been officially kicked off by First Minister, Alex Salmond, this weekend and thousands are expected to take part in Burns Suppers all around the world. Images from Burns’s poems have been projected on to the City Chambers of Glasgow to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Rabbie Burns. The First [...]
The Who Do You Think You Are Live! event takes place from 27 February to 1 March at the Olympia, London and is the biggest gathering of family history resources in the UK. There will be a number of workshops and exhibitions dedicated to different aspects of genealogy as well as a series of theatre [...]
William Burns, the father of Robert Burns, leased a small piece of land in 1757 in Alloway where he built the little cottage that is now famous the world over as Burns Cottage. William married his sweetheart, Agnes, in December of that year and a year later, their first son, Robert, was born on 25 [...]
