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May 09, 2007

Hotel Genealogy Concierge Service

The concierge service at any good hotel offers many valuable services. The concierge can help you with dinner reservations, theater tickets, sightseeing tours and much more. Now the Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa in Edinburgh has teamed up with genealogy expert Sheila Duffy to introduce Scotland’s first ever hotel Genealogy Concierge service for visitors to Scotland.

The Scottish records go back to 1553 and are widely recognized to be the most accessible in the world but few know how to fully harness this ancestral information. The Genealogy Concierge will enable guests to trace their family roots, by discovering where they lived, where they might be buried, what sort of lives they led or what further documentation may have survived.

As a first step, a questionnaire form will be provided prior to check-in, which will give the Genealogy Concierge a starting reference from which she can base her initial research.

You can read more about the Genealogy Concierge service at http://www.ttnworldwide.com/Articles.asp?Article=6560.

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Is this the first hotel to provide this? We've been meaning to travel to Switzerland to do some family history and I'm sure we would stay in a hotel if it offered a similar valuable service. Perhaps Sheraton will expand this offering?

How would one get involved as a genealogy concierge? what a great service this would be in many locales.

That's pretty interesting that the term "concierge" is making its way deep into businesses such as personal concierge, corporate and now Genealogy. I personally feel concierge is a good idea to introduce in this field as well.

Hello,
I guess its not the first hotel,Hotel in canada already being doing this and some in swiss and many more in aussi.I agree concierge is best way to transfer you idea.

Regards,
Alex Bell.

The owners and operators of concierge and errand service businesses are supported and advocated by the non-profit International Concierge and Errand Association and the National Concierge Association. These associations serve their members through essential resources, continuing education, networking opportunities and other professional endeavors.

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