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Hey thanks Andrew, that's a cool work around. I'll do that. (Love a quick turnaround!)

Hi everyone, I have a simple question, please, that a quick search didn't answer. Is it possible to search the Scotland's People Census records for a particular address? I have a relative who used a false name when enlisting in WW1, and subsequently appears to have given false information about his ...

Hi Alan, I feel very guilty, I realise I didn't respond to that wonderfully informative lot of information, nor to that supplied by John. Thanks very much to both of you, and sorry I forgot to respond for so long. When I first started on doing genealogy, I mostly just concentrated on getting the nam...

I would now like to post 3 more photos from that page and see if people can offer any advice on those dates and ages please. This one is labelled George Moir, Tailor. He was born in 1815. (Does that beard look suspicious to anyone?) https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M6-vux7tQlI/VG_MzrzoAbI/AAAAAAAA...

Thank you everyone for comments. Trish - I thought the people were a little older than I wrote here, but my wife thought (like Russell) that they would have looked older to us than they really were. It's hard to tell. It is good to confirm that some (many?) photos used clothed supplied by the photog...

The large Moir family includes some of my wife's ancestors. I have just come across an old book on the Moir family that has been made available online. Following page 168 are a number of photos which apparently include some of my wife's ancestors. However some of the identifications appear to be in ...

William, that is absolutely brilliant! Thank you so much. I learnt a lot from that little exercise. Firstly, I didn't think to use the census to see the adjacent households. That gave really good information. Then I didn't know before that I could get the Ordinance map for 1843-1882 as an overlay to...

In my search for distant relatives in Scotland, I have come across some buried at Fyvie (Aberdeenshire). A kind lady from Fyvie photographed the relevant gravestones for me (I live in Australia and wasn't likely to get there any time soon, I regret to say!). One of the relatives (James Stephen, c181...

Hi Sarah, I think I have gone as far as I can for now, and I haven't been able to definitively identify which John was the father. I lean towards the one from Schivas, but that is as close as I seem to be able to get now. Just thought I'd report back to tidy up any loose ends. Thanks again for your ...

Unfortunatley not, he never did have a son, with his wife jane, named after himself. Not sure if thats unusual or not. Or maybe it was because he already had one. Hi Katie, sorry to be delayed getting back to you, but I had a short holiday and had limited internet access for a week. I'm curious abo...