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Spotlight on… Borders Family History Society

he society’s catchment area, essentially that of the River Tweed, encompasses the four historical counties of Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire, bordered by Northumberland, Dumfriesshire, Lanarkshire and Lothians. The region has remote upland hills, rich agricultural land and a spectacular coastline: a land rich in history and tradition, with ruined abbeys, coastal and remote

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