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Hogmanay is here! And here also is a selection of stories from the newspapers. If you don’t know what it is now is your chance to find out. There’s also a secret sowens recipe. If you don’t know what that is just read on. Dundee Courier, Sunday, December 31, 1930 THE HUMOURS OF HOGMANAY And The Myst...

Hello Maggie, The image you posted is only 640x420 pixels and would be impossible to read properly at that resolution. Email programs often reduce image sizes to make it quicker to send which sort of works for photographs but not for this sort of thing. The original OPR image from SP would probably ...

Thanks all, There was one problem with the first screening of a “talkie” at the Kinnaird Picture House. I was hoping to find a copy of it online, so we could judge for ourselves, but no luck with that. Dundee Courier, Tuesday, July 9, 1929 Crowded audiences yesterday witnessed the presentation at th...

Christmas is Coming. But, before I get into that, here’s a nice story about the drummer at the Kinnaird Picture House, Dundee. At the time this interview took place the movie “The Somme” was playing and that would have kept him very busy. A comedy film, “Changing His Spots,” was the support. Little ...

Much more here. Wife’s name Anna Maria.
http://www.theonlinebookcompany.com/Onl ... ldiers/230

James Hunter Currie was a Lieutenant in the 9th regiment in 1803.
https://archive.org/details/listofoffic ... p?q=currie

Alan

Hello John, See London Gazette https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice?text=%22edward+currie%22&categorycode-all=all¬icetypes=&location-postcode-1=&location-distance-1=1&location-local-authority-1=&numberOfLocationSearches=1&start-publish-date=&end-publish-date=&edition=&london-issue=&edi...

Thanks Sarah, Anne, & Meg, I had a item I didn’t post, that I thought was much worse than those, or maybe it was much better, I’m not much of a judge. In between heat waves I’ve been rounding up some stories about a particular crime that would have had an impact on genealogical research. However we’...

Hello Trish, Sorry, but I can’t help with a recommendation. If your friend can speak Italian there are some Italian newspaper archives online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives#Italy There’s also the Portale Antenati site but I don’t know how it works. http://...

Hello Ken, Marriage records for Kirkgunzeon parish survive only from 1812. https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Kirkgunzeon,_Kirkcudbrightshire,_Scotland_Genealogy According to the Statistical Account of 1793 the population of the parish was 520, with averages, per annum, of 18 births, 3 marriages, ...

Hello Anne & Sarah, Most of it seems to have come from the Dundee newspapers, so that narrows it down a bit. Anyone disseminating that sort of stuff should be horsewhipped, tarred and feathered, and run out of town on a rail. Although it’s probably not so easy these days to get all the necessary ing...