News: Famous Scots visit exhibition

On Wednesday 15 April, Sir James Black, OM, the Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist, dropped into the ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh to view his own family history. Sir James is the subject of the second in our series of exhibitions on the theme of ancestry entitled 'Famous Scots', which is running throughout Homecoming Scotland 2009.

By coincidence Billy Connolly, CBE, our first subject, chose the same day to pay us a visit and we were delighted that the two Famous Scots could meet up. Although Billy's section is now finished we were able to show him many of the original documents that we used in the exhibition.