Find your Islay ancestors - image of old Islay Map showing ownership and people from days gone by

'Cha nigh na tha dh’uisge sa mhuir ar càirdeas'
All the water in the sea won’t wash out our kinship

 

Follow in the footsteps of your ancestors and visit their final resting places. See the empty glens, deserted villages, silver mining landscapes, showy villages, disaster memorials, snowdropped cemeteries – add all to your family history. Browse for photographs, maps, letters and artefacts in museums and archives.
Lastly let us not forget the living history that is Islay's people. Descendants welcome the Islay diaspora from Glasgow to the Carolinas and New Zealand.

Discover Islay and your place here...

 

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Museum of Islay Life
Museum of Islay Life