{"id":4149,"date":"2015-09-23T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:17:10","slug":"your-scots-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/researchers\/your-scots-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Scots Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Merle Palmer, a professional Genealogist, Family and House Historian with a post-graduate diploma in Genealogy from the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n<p>My passion for researching our family history and reconnecting with new found family worldwide inspired me to set up my own business, Your Scots Past. Based in central Scotland I am ideally located to access records in Edinburgh as well as local archives throughout Perthshire, Dundee and Angus.<\/p>\n<p>Combining my knowledge of the wide range of Scottish genealogical resources available, a logical approach to problem solving and rigorous research skills you can be assured of a friendly and personalised service.<\/p>\n<p>I am a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and adhere to their code of ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to discover who your Scottish ancestors were, where they lived and what they did? I believe every family has a precious and unique history which should be preserved and which deserves to be told.<\/p>\n<p>My website includes full details of pricing and the services I offer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourscotspast.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.yourscotspast.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To find out how I can help you reconnect with your own history contact me for an initial free consultation.<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:merle@yourscotspast.co.uk\" target=\"_top\">merle@yourscotspast.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tel: +44 (0)1821 650447<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish based professional, qualified genealogist <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,80,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatauntyalice.com\/researchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}