Dr Bruce Durie BSc (Hons) PhD OMLJ FIGRS

Consultant Genealogist and Heraldist, Author, Broadcaster, Lecturer

● Shennachie to the Chief of Durie ● Académie Internationale de Généalogie ● Right of Audience at the Court of the Lord Lyon 
●  Fulbright Senior Scottish Studies Scholar, 2015-16 ● Freeman and Burgess of the City of Glasgow ●

Now incorporating Ancestral Scotland Ltd (www.ancestralscots.com)

Legacy Webinars 2025- 
Keep checking here for details of upcoming Webinars

Television

Dr. Bruce Durie is regular contributor to Verborgen Verleden, the Dutch TV version of Who Do You Think You Are

2025-02-22 Heraldry Society of Scotland, Edinburgh
 - "Nothing so Ordinary

2025-09-11 Clan Grant International Gathering 2025 
Abernethy Highland Games, Grantown-on-Spey
Bruce Durie will be in the Chief's Tent giving an informal talk on Scottish Genealogy......and the after-dinner speech at 19.30  https://nethybridge.com/abernethy-highland-games/ 
https://www.clangrant.org/

Saturday 20 Sept 2025, Aberdeen

Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society

Heraldry – who cares?

Open meeting - all welcome. Online: pre-booking required for Zoom

Click for further info: https://www.anesfhs.org.uk/meetings-events/events/event/481-abd2025sep

Tuesday 23 September 2025, 10 am, New Club, Princes Street, Edinburgh

Annual Edinburgh Meeting of the Registry of Scots Nobility

Dr Bruce Durie will speak on Scottish Heraldry

https://www.registryofscotsnobility.com/

3 November 2025 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm GMT

Friends of Argyll Estates Archives - Online Study Session 

Surnames and placenames in Scotland:  
language, ancestral ethnicity, DNA and heraldry

https://argyllestatesarchives.org/

2024-05-04 Manchester Family History Society, England
- Researching Clans and Families

2024-10-01 St Andrew’s Society of the State of New York, USA
 - Who are the Scots and What are they good for?

2024-10-12 Scottish Barony Forum (online)
 - Scots Heraldry

2024-11-16 Aberdeen & North East Family History Society, Scotland
 - Scotland has no Probate...finding and using Wills & Testaments and other Records of Inheritance

2024-06-09 3rd International Colloquium of Genealogy, Heraldry and Vexillology , Vilnius, Lithuania
 - Scottish Heraldic Flags – Who gets what, and why?

2024-09-22 to 24  36th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Boston USA
 - Why We are Not “Celtic”: Evidence from Anthropology, Archaeology, History and DNA

AWESOME webinar! So much valuable knowledge. Love his accent! Love his sense of humor! This is so helpful! 18-20-ish % Scottish with Irish here. 

Could listen to Bruce all day! Wonderful material, logically presented (with humor) and LOVE his accent.

Absolutely Brilliant, Brilliant Speaker, Brilliant Resources, and always a bit of humour. Thank you so much for this series. BRILLIANT

Dr. Durie has a wonderful way of simplifying the topic without talking down to people. I found so much guidance in so little time. Thank you.

Always so many resources and lots of information., always thorough and clear.

Great to find on line sites I did not know existed

Enjoyed it very much - thanks so much!

Inspiring, lots of ideas to further research, which I'd never know about!

Best series ever!

Bruce is a great resource. Very informative and useful.

it is interesting to find so many free sites to get started with in Scottish research. Thanks Bruce and also to you Geoff for organizing all of these webinars. This is awesome!

One of the best webinars you have had! Bruce is so interesting and fun to talk to. I felt I was there in person and he was talking directly to me. Thank you!

Wonderful series on Scotland! Thanks so much to Bruce, Geoff, Marian & Legacy for providing these. I've done some Scottish research, but am realizing there's so much more I could do!

So much great info about searching in Scotland!