Stirlingshire Societies: Difference between revisions

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Website: [http://www.csfhs.org.uk/ Central Scotland Family History Society]<br>

:The Society was formed in 1990 to serve the needs of those interested in family history who lived in what was then the Central Region. This means that as well as the old counties of Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire, and West Perthshire, the Society covers the parishes of Bo'ness and Carriden which were in West Lothian.

'''The Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society'''<br>Unit 13<br>32 Mansfield Street<br>Glasgow G11 5QP UK<br>Telephone: 0141 339 8303<br>

:The society was founded in 1977 with the aim of promoting the study of family history, particularly for those whose family history has links with Glasgow and the west of Scotland.  The counties included are Argyll, Ayr, Bute, Dunbarton, Lanark, Renfrew, and Stirling.

'''Baldernock Local History Group'''<br>Baldernock Church Hall<br>Glenorchard Road<br>Balmore<br>Torrance, East Dunbartonshire G64 4AJ UK<br>

Telephone: 07855 111836<br>Email: [mailto:blhg@baldernock.org.uk blhg@baldernock.org.uk]<br>

: Baldernock Local History Group was formed in 2013 to explore, understand, and inform about the history of Baldernock parish, a small rural parish between Milngavie and Torrance on the northern outskirts of Glasgow. Baldernock has a rich agricultural legacy as well as extensive remains of mining for limestone, coal, ironstone, and fireclay, and widespread evidence of 18th and 19th century lime burning.

'''Campsie Local History Group'''<br>Tom Johnston House<br>Civic Way<br>Kirkintilloch, Glasgow G66 4TJ UK<br>

:The aim of the group is to foster and develop an interest in local history, to collate, record, and preserve all information of historical interest to the Parish, and to form a database and make it readily available to a wider public.