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Family history at Lochaber Archive Centre

Explore your family history with the Highland Archive Service

Whether you're just beginning your family history journey or delving deeper into your Highland ancestry, the Highland Archive Service is here to help.

Lochaber Archive Centre offers advice on how to research your family history and provides access to research resources and family history reference material. 

If you are looking to take your research further, our expert Family Historians based at The Highland Archive Centre in Inverness can help you delve deeper into your family history. Our Family Historians can undertake research for you, provide one-to-one family history consultations, and build your family tree. The Family History Room at Highland Archive Centre in Inverness is the only venue in the Highlands offering access to Scotland's People network and is home to the Highland Family History Society. Fore more information about additional family history services available at the Highland Archive Centre, please click here.  

Two people standing indoors holding a large printed family tree chart. The chart contains multiple names arranged in a genealogical structure, and they are positioned so the chart is clearly visible between them.

Family tree presentation

Four people standing indoors holding a large printed family tree chart. The chart contains numerous names arranged in a branching structure. The individuals are dressed in casual clothing, including sweaters and jackets, and are positioned in front of a light-colored wall with framed pictures hanging on it. The setting appears to be a library or archive search room with chairs visible in the background.
Two people sit at a desk across from an archivist who is working on a computer with dual monitors. The desk is covered with papers, folders, and printed documents, including a booklet with a crest on the cover. Behind the desk are bookshelves filled with books, and a large wall chart is partially visible.

Family Historian Anne in a one-to-one consultation

Family history services

A man with dark hair sits at a desk with three laptops, a desktop monitor displaying the Scotland's People website, a printer, and various office supplies. Shelves with files and papers are in the background, and a large chart with handwritten notes is pinned to the wall.

Can’t visit? We can help

Expert archival and family history research carried out for you by the Highland Archive Service

Two people sit at a desk across from an archivist who is working on a computer with dual monitors. The desk is covered with papers, folders, and printed documents, including a booklet with a crest on the cover. Behind the desk are bookshelves filled with books, and a large wall chart is partially visible.

One-to-one consultations and family trees

Get expert guidance on family history research, a personal consultation, or a fully researched family tree

A black and white photograph of a formal school group. Many of the children are barefoot and one holds a sign indicating that the children are pupils of Embo School in 1912.

Archive and Family History classes

Archives and family history classes run by the Highland Archive Service

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Donate to Lochaber Archive Centre

The Archive Service preserves, conserves and makes accessible over 700 years of Highland history. There is no charge to visit our Archive Centres and access the collections we hold, but High Life Highland is a charity and we rely on your donations.

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