Scotland's People

My grandfather was in the King's Own Scottish Borderers but my eyes began playing up before I found my other Scottish relatives. I remember with great joy the holidays we had in Rothesay. So many years ago now.....

I love tracing my ancestors. My cousin who did the tracing over the years sadly died suddenly last August and had produced some marvellous results including a treasured photo-copy of our grannie and great grannie together. We never knew either and the pic came from a new found cousin in New York, who also had a photo of my own mother in her youth ! Pics of my mother that I hadn't seen, amazing.

My Irish are hard to find when they left here in the 18th century they were apparently McGregors ,they changed their name to Browne and its only recently I've been told that many families did this taking as their name the prominent colour of their clan tartan.Whether its true or not I dont know as it was an Irishman who told me .lol.Great at stories the Irish.

I did get free acess to an Irish site a few years back and found my GGGp's.On the court records ,she for rent arrears for her pub in Letterkenny ,he on the same court list on the same day for selling alcohol without a license .
I couldn't find any trace of their parents though even though I had an address for one beside the Cemetary at Conwal .
I will go back when time permits and have a go at finding them in Donegal .Problem is it becomes obsessive .

Ps too quick to press!
I find it hard to access marriage records even with accurate information so planning a trip to Register House!

Paddy we had a patchy outline and I've enjoyed filling gaps.
Several years ago I joined Friends and Genes Reunited but only recorded what I knew at the time.
Lost interest as I got caught up in present day family stuff. I thought that Genes R was no longer functioning so this time didn't even try!
It's the Irish part of the family I'm looking at now and finding the census reports really useful. Amused to find a Johnson marrying a Johnstone!

mcem Have you used Genes Reunited ? I did my OH's tree and found a whole family in Devon that he knew very little about .I'm in touch with my MIL's GGF's G nephew and get updated on their lives on a weekly basis.MIL knew her GGF came from a village in Devon but only because the house he built was given the same name as the village so its been great for her to see photographs of the area and even the house he was born in ..She always tells us she loved her wee Grandad but she didn't know his story

As someone who only started my family research at Christmas I'm delighted with what I've found already thanks to Scotland's People and Find my Past. This is an old photograph unearthed when my aunt died a few years ago. We knew it was of my GF's large family but little else. I've been able to find all the names and ages plus a link to my GGGmother! I have also had very kind offers from GN members to help if they can. I will certainly call on that advice but am so pleased I followed a couple of their pointers to get to where I am now. It was wonderful to discover that 3 of our boys have names of 3 brothers in the picture. Several have my father's name as middle names and it turns out that Dad was named after his Gdad (in the picture)!!

its a brilliant site .I managed to trace my dads maternal GM;s side back to the 1740's with hardly any info to begin.The site is easy to navigate and not too expensive.I recommend it to folk all the time.Now if only the Irish sites were as good!