Wednesday 30 April 2014

Mortonhall Crematorium baby ashes scandal report published

The report into the scandal at Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh, which from 1967-2011 secretly buried the ashes of more than 250 cremated babies, and refused to tell their parents of the existence of such ashes, has been published.

The BBC has the full story at www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-27211583.

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians. And for those wishing to take Scottish ancestral research a bit further, my next Pharos course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Records, commences May 14th 2014.

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