Highland Archive Centre, Inverness
Looking to learn more about your Scottish lineage? Chris has got you covered. Let his passion for Scottish genealogy help you discover your ancestors' place in history.
“This is my country
The land that begat me
These windy spaces
Are surely my own.
And those who toil here
In the sweat of their faces
Are flesh of my flesh
And bone of my bone
”
Some career highlights include:
Tracing Scottish ancestry on Who Do You Think You Are? USA and BBC Scotland as a freelance TV researcher
Family History Leader at the Highland Archive Centre, Inverness, helping visitors research their Highland ancestry.
Accredited member of the Association of Scottish Genealogists & Researchers in Archives (ASGRA).
Digging up the roots of his own Dumfriesshire and Highland ancestors.
Chris is all about telling the tales that records contain. He loves discovering long-lost branches on family trees and breathing life into the stories of generations past.
When he's not knee-deep in old Scottish documents, you can find Chris expanding his expertise as a member of the Scottish Genealogy Society and speaking at genealogy conferences. His articles on tracing Highland roots have appeared in Family Tree Magazine.
New Register House, Edinburgh where it all began before the internet and online access. Just a pencil and paper and 4 miles(6.5 km) of shelving and half a million volumes. Including 400,000 registers of birth, marriages and deaths in Scotland since 1855…and still growing !
With a decades of experience under his belt, Chris Halliday has mastered the art of uncovering Scottish family histories and bringing ancestry to life.
Chris caught the genealogy bug early and has been hooked on Scottish family trees since his school days. He holds an MSc in Scottish Family History and MA(Hons) in Scottish Cultural Studies and knows his way around a Scottish genealogy record like nobody's business.