Re: Trying to trace Scottish family

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:02:46 -0500, "MoM" <mNOSPAMpeagram@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>"Charles Ellson" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>message news:prnbr11or3j5ihrdlqarajt4k4i7eqqgjd@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:19:59 -0500, "MoM"
>> <mNOSPAMpeagram@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all;
>>>
>>>I've been able to trace most of my family on my father's
>>>side but I'm having real problems on my Mother's. There
>>>was
>>>some rift between her father and she and there is no-one
>>>left over there I can find information from.
>>>
>>>Can someone point me to how I should start researching?
>>>
>>>I have my grandparents birth date and year of death but
>>>that's all besides the birth dates of my aunts.
>>>
>> You haven't mentioned dates but at a rough guess you're
>> too recent for
>> IGI and available census records and possibly also for
>> ScotlandsPeople
>> where the births index has a 100-year closure. If you are
>> looking for
>> any of her siblings then you could try films of the
>> Scottish indexes
>> available via the LDS/Mormons which go to IIRC 1953/4 but
>> the mother's
>> maiden surname is not shown until IIRC 1925.
>
>Hi Charles. Sorry about that.
>My mom was born Jan 26, 1915 I believe in Dumfries.
>
>My Grandfather was born Jan 13, 1889 and my Great
>grandfather May 5, 1860 in Glasgow.
>
>I have a birth date for my Grandmother of Jan 14, 1887 but
>have been unable to find out any further information on her.
>
You're probably best starting from your mother with that information.
As it's a 1915 birth you'll have to resort to non-electronic methods
in the form of yourself or someone else looking up her birth in the
births index to identify the possible candidates. Be careful with the
places if you have no previous "official" information as the correct
location can sometimes be somewhere same or similar sounding many
miles up the road (e.g. Kirkmichael, Perthshire and Kirkmichael,
Banffshire) or OTOH a very different name which is actually the same
or an immediately adjacent area (e.g. Inverallan now Grantown, Duthil
now Carrbridge or Aviemore). Scottish birth, marriage and death
records all name both parents (if known to the informant) so each time
you get a copy of a register entry you will get the previous
generation as well.
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