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Up Helly Aa fire festival 19:51 - Jan 28 with 786 views

My grandmother hailed from the most northerly inhabited island in the UK: Unst in the Shetland Isles which is on the same latitude as Bergen and Anchorage.

Tonight is the night Shetland's Norse heritage is celebrated in Lerwick, and here is a link to live coverage for anyone who might be interested.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn8y30z3x7zt

EDIT It's a public holiday in Shetland tomorrow in order to enable people to recover from the festivities. I am not aware of anywhere else so small in the UK which has its own public holiday.

[Post edited 28 Jan 19:59]

Up Helly Aa fire festival on 20:49 - Jan 28 with 688 views

66notout

Thank you for posting. I too have Shetland roots.

Up Helly Aa fire festival on 21:23 - Jan 28 with 649 views

DJR

Up Helly Aa fire festival on 20:49 - Jan 28 by 66notout
Thank you for posting. I too have Shetland roots.

Have you tried to trace them?

This is a great free site based on public and local records which enabled me to trace some of my ancestors back to the late 1400s, having first established by a Scottish birth certificate search my most recent ancestor born in Shetland. It also shows evidence in my case of the Nordic naming pattern that exists these days only in Iceland.

https://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/

One of my ancestors even ended up being included in a lecture in Lerwick museum entitled "From a Shetland Lairdship to a Norwegian Barony: The Mouat Family and the Barony of Rosendal." There was an accompanying booklet a copy of which I have.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shetland-Lairdship-Norwegian-Barony-Rosendal/dp/0955764

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