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40 years looking for parents of John McLeod, b. 1854 or 1855 in Dyke, Elginshire
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk - it's a pay-per-view site, but modestly priced. It is the only place to find digital images of almost all original Scottish records of births/baptisms, banns/marriages and
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www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk - it's a pay-per-view site, but modestly priced. It is the only place to find digital images of almost all original Scottish records of births/baptisms, banns/marriages and
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understanding ages in 1841 census
The 1841 census was taken on 7 June, so if he really was aged 39 on census day, he would have been born between 8 June 1801 and 7 June 1802.If he was correctly shown as 35 he would have been born betw
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The 1841 census was taken on 7 June, so if he really was aged 39 on census day, he would have been born between 8 June 1801 and 7 June 1802.If he was correctly shown as 35 he would have been born betw
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HOGG BLACKBURN
No, not for a moment would I trust that 'research'. We've all done it. I spent a while climbing a wrong branch before discovering from her death certificate that my great-great-grandmother wasn't the
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No, not for a moment would I trust that 'research'. We've all done it. I spent a while climbing a wrong branch before discovering from her death certificate that my great-great-grandmother wasn't the
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HOGG BLACKBURN
That's a great story and one anyone would love to have in their family history. All I am saying is that it is quite obviously impossible for William Hogg and Barbara Hume's son James, born (according
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That's a great story and one anyone would love to have in their family history. All I am saying is that it is quite obviously impossible for William Hogg and Barbara Hume's son James, born (according
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HOGG BLACKBURN
Please don't place any reliance on online family trees, whether on Ancestry or anywhere else. What happens is that someone finds only one candidate in the surviving records who roughly fits their ance
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Please don't place any reliance on online family trees, whether on Ancestry or anywhere else. What happens is that someone finds only one candidate in the surviving records who roughly fits their ance
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HOGG BLACKBURN
The first thing to recognise is that the records you are looking for may not have survived. The only place to find reliable information online is www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (SP). You need to register,
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The first thing to recognise is that the records you are looking for may not have survived. The only place to find reliable information online is www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (SP). You need to register,
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McKays in Moray
If you have a copy of the original document from Scotland's People, there is no point looking for anything different on Ancestry because it will be from the same document. If
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If you have a copy of the original document from Scotland's People, there is no point looking for anything different on Ancestry because it will be from the same document. If
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McKays in Moray
Goldie is absolutely right. The way a surname is spelled has absolutely no significance, especially when it's a matter of Mc versus Mac. Mackay is commoner than McKay (SP has 370,226 references to Mac
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Goldie is absolutely right. The way a surname is spelled has absolutely no significance, especially when it's a matter of Mc versus Mac. Mackay is commoner than McKay (SP has 370,226 references to Mac
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McKays in Moray
My apologies, John. It is so automatic for me to search using wildcards that I completely forgot to say that I searched for M*c*k*y not McKay. In the 1901 census, and on both death certificates, Willi
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My apologies, John. It is so automatic for me to search using wildcards that I completely forgot to say that I searched for M*c*k*y not McKay. In the 1901 census, and on both death certificates, Willi
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McKays in Moray
It depends how many years, but digital images of original Scottish BMD and census records have been available on a pay-per-view basis for about 15 years. Ancestry has a few of those, and some (notorio
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It depends how many years, but digital images of original Scottish BMD and census records have been available on a pay-per-view basis for about 15 years. Ancestry has a few of those, and some (notorio
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McKays in Moray
PS Elizabeth Cooper McKay, aged 78, died in Inverness in 1935. If her death was registered by a relative, it might provide a clue to where her siblings went. Anne
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PS Elizabeth Cooper McKay, aged 78, died in Inverness in 1935. If her death was registered by a relative, it might provide a clue to where her siblings went. Anne
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McKays in Moray
Have you found William McKay's death certificate? It should tell you the names of both his parents. There's a death of Margaret Cobban, other surname McKay, aged 90, in Cromarty in 1908. Go to www.sco
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Have you found William McKay's death certificate? It should tell you the names of both his parents. There's a death of Margaret Cobban, other surname McKay, aged 90, in Cromarty in 1908. Go to www.sco
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Ewan Mackay/McKay-Boggierow death
He would have been buried in the parish kirkyard at Fordyce. See https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ5563 and discussion at https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=504689.0 The cloth was cal
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He would have been buried in the parish kirkyard at Fordyce. See https://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ5563 and discussion at https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=504689.0 The cloth was cal
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COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Suggest you forget about Ancestry/FamilySearch/IGI for the moment. They are great as finding aids but they don't hold all of the actual records. Go to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and you will be able t
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Suggest you forget about Ancestry/FamilySearch/IGI for the moment. They are great as finding aids but they don't hold all of the actual records. Go to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and you will be able t
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COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
I agree. Bear in mind that the concept of 'correct spelling is largely a 20th century innovation. In the late 18th century there was no such thing as 'correct' spelling. I looked at that map but didn'
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I agree. Bear in mind that the concept of 'correct spelling is largely a 20th century innovation. In the late 18th century there was no such thing as 'correct' spelling. I looked at that map but didn'
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COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Someone wrote: "Muthill is a small place, smaller than Comrie and much smaller than Crieff I would be very surprised if these other places had ever come under Muthill for any administrative purpose."
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Someone wrote: "Muthill is a small place, smaller than Comrie and much smaller than Crieff I would be very surprised if these other places had ever come under Muthill for any administrative purpose."
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COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
I know it very well. When I was a child we often went to St Fillans (in the parish of Comrie), where the owner of the hotel was a friend of my parents. Later, my aunt and uncle retired to Comrie and I
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I know it very well. When I was a child we often went to St Fillans (in the parish of Comrie), where the owner of the hotel was a friend of my parents. Later, my aunt and uncle retired to Comrie and I
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Maiden surnames
Somewhere in this thread someone wrote, "It is a relatively modern thing, and not just in Scotland, for married women to continue to use their maiden surname." This is incorrect and potentially mislea
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Somewhere in this thread someone wrote, "It is a relatively modern thing, and not just in Scotland, for married women to continue to use their maiden surname." This is incorrect and potentially mislea
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Maiden Name or Married Name
I have never heard of anything quite so formal. It is perfectly true that a married woman in Scotland doed not legally change her surname. In all later documents she is formally referred to as 'xxx yy
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I have never heard of anything quite so formal. It is perfectly true that a married woman in Scotland doed not legally change her surname. In all later documents she is formally referred to as 'xxx yy
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illigitmacy
RCA is a typographical error for RCE, which is the abbreviation for Register of Corrected Entries. A certificate, once recorded, can't be altered, so any changes (e.g. addition of a father following a
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RCA is a typographical error for RCE, which is the abbreviation for Register of Corrected Entries. A certificate, once recorded, can't be altered, so any changes (e.g. addition of a father following a
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