tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91325768565883235862012-01-25T15:09:38.229+13:00GenBlogLorna's Research Diary - what changed, when, sometimes why.LornaHennoreply@blogger.comBlogger5701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-40772801472959863292012-01-25T15:09:00.000+13:002012-01-25T15:09:38.309+13:00Another gemAnother gem of a link from the SMGF newsletter.
Is your research glass half full or half empty?LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-27264374918876710862012-01-23T00:45:00.000+13:002012-01-23T00:45:23.027+13:00Married or not?Can anyone help decipher the marital status on this census entry?
(Mar or Unm) under order of P??ia
It may, or may not help to know that the husband seems to have deserted the family and returned to Scotland (from Yorkshire) to live with another woman as man and wife, no marriage to be found.LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-20716568160046184932012-01-16T16:19:00.001+13:002012-01-16T16:19:46.667+13:00What's in a name?Climbing The Spiral Staircase: Learning Genealogy may be of interest.
I particularly liked the Maidenform - Medenfort - Madenford example, having recently tried (successfully) to verify a birth of a Jane(t) PRITCHARD.
'tis often a pity we have to pick one name as the primary name for display.
I think I prefer her baptismal name of PREACHER.
So far I've found her baptized as PREACHER (1827), and aLornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-4922058847416120652012-01-16T15:37:00.000+13:002012-01-16T15:37:13.950+13:00Carried alongRead an interesting parish burial entry today - 1818 Edinburgh St Cuthberts.
Past Edinburgh parish burial records have often been very informative with ages, occupations, causes of death, addresses etc, so when I tried interpreting an unlabelled column as a cause of death, my first guess was "strokes", but it did look rather more like "spokes" - which sounded rather painful !
Looking at the otherLornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-63986737569579372182012-01-15T13:17:00.001+13:002012-01-15T13:17:54.245+13:00Robert & Jane (WIGHT) SINTONAn email from Morley asking if I could quantify the rumoured connection between the families of Elizabeth MABON, whose son John married Jane ELLIOT, and the SINTONs, Jane ELLIOT's sister Betsy having married William son of Robert & Jane (WIGHT) SINTON.
This SINTON family had children baptized in Ancrum, ROX before emigrating to Beauharnois County, Quebec around 1831.
It had been rather a long LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-39006243177923015002012-01-10T16:00:00.000+13:002012-01-10T16:00:57.507+13:00HOPPERs , SINCLAIRs & RUNCIMANsContact from a couple of distant rellies has resulted in a few updates.
The family of Nathanial DAWE now has a few more twigs pinned down, particular the family of some of the HOPPER branch.
So the DAWE descendant chart has been updated.
Also an interesting set of conversations with Peter SINCLAIR starting from his post in my Guestbook has resulted in Donald SINCLAIR being "found" after 1871 - LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-47308352719316998422012-01-03T23:54:00.000+13:002012-01-04T01:06:25.460+13:003 months of updatesQuite an impressively long list of recent changes - but don't be fooled.
Many are minor changes to citations, or the last edit date changed because a scanned certificate has been added (which wont be visible on the family tree pages, but may be if included on the Originals subsite - not yet updated).
Another reason for inclusion in the recent change index is the addition of links to a hopefully LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-81738555680003731512011-12-31T23:31:00.000+13:002011-12-31T23:31:14.795+13:00Familton MatriarchCheck the FAMILTON DNA project blog for latest dna results - mtDNA this time.
And as Elizabeth is the mother of Margaret RUNCHAMAN, that's some of the RUNCIMAN mtDNA identified as well.
Nearly the end of 2011 here in NZ, all the best for 2012.LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-3825047900404667532011-12-17T23:30:00.000+13:002011-12-18T01:01:03.236+13:00Ego-less genealogy?In my dim and distant past as a computer programmer I remember being much taken with a book Ego-less Programming, or some such title.
WeRelate looks like the genealogical equivalent.
It's another collaborative tree aiming at no duplications, people linked and working on ONE version of a person/family in a wiki, same concept as Wikipedia but purpose built for genealogy, and much more easily LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-26234298739107265892011-12-15T22:04:00.000+13:002011-12-17T22:06:23.522+13:00North Island StraysHaving fun swapping information with Julie at the moment.
She was all excited as her husband didn't think he had any relations until she found my web pages.
The MEIKLE branch of the HENDERSON tree is one of the North Island strays that few of the Southeners knew much about when I started documenting HENDERSONs back in the 1970s/1980s. And so it mostly stayed.
Without purchasing certificates, LornaHennoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-39685143923248734712011-12-14T16:07:00.004+13:002011-12-14T16:07:49.568+13:00Heatherhope Ralph has posted a wonderful slideshow of Heatherhope, his ancestral RICHARDSON home on the RICHARDSON Family Group (open only to descendants of William RICHARDSON of Pringlestead).
Also contains some other wonderful old photos of the RICHARDSONs.LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-28631296145868377792011-12-14T10:53:00.000+13:002011-12-14T10:53:21.076+13:00KudosKudos to our Dept of Internal Affairs for a very prompt, efficient response to an incorrect death index online.
The death index for a William FAIRBAIRN, known to have died in 1912 by the online Christchurch City Council cemetery records, was not immediately obvious in the NZ Historical Death index online as either FAIRBAIRN or FAIRBURN (not so much kudos for no wildcard search facility).
Back to LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-6545652138875454632011-12-04T22:41:00.001+13:002011-12-26T11:28:09.607+13:00What happens when you vote!An interesting set of circumstances followed my early vote last month.
The chap taking my details ruled the line through my name and paused with his finger on it.
Is this really your occupation?
Probably, what did I put?
Genealogist.
Ah, yes, that's me.
"Can you find my father?"
Most definitely not what I was expecting, and obviously not a particularly easy task given the son had failed for over LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-35715828114114582302011-11-20T12:18:00.001+13:002011-11-20T13:05:57.644+13:00Devon recordsGood news for Devon researchers, particularly if you have access to FindMyPast.
Keep an eye on this link for availability of records from the Plymouth & West Devon Record Office (thanks to the LostCousins ) newsletter.
A quick search shows some parish register images available for Plymouth at least, with indexes for other parishes (that have been available for some time).LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-4779654915086815062011-10-28T20:23:00.001+13:002011-10-28T20:23:52.105+13:00Fast ladyHope that the actual image of this entry shows a different picture than the transcripts.
A 1901 census in Troqueer shows what look like twins in a SHORTREED family:
James 9 mos b Galashiels, Selkirk; Andrew 9 mos b Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbright
Mum Annie nee HOOD must have had to move rather fast to achieve that!
This HOOD activity being prompted by Harry bringing a RootsChat posting to my attentionLornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-90559348105187271892011-10-23T19:03:00.000+13:002011-10-23T19:03:44.496+13:00Once was not enough?While checking some RUNCIMAN data I'd uploaded to WikiTree I decided to see if could identify the previously unknown to me wife of David Inglis RUNCIMAN, son of Robert Inglis RUNCIMAN.
Bingo, there in 1926 in the England and Wales marriage indexes was a likely looking marriage of a David I RUNCIMAN to an Effie CUMMING.
So I popped that info into my Ancestry tree.
Then up popped one of Ancestry's LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-61915129957940497932011-10-22T18:41:00.000+13:002011-10-22T18:41:29.376+13:00Course over, play timeAs part of a course I gave last week on using online family trees, I had a play with WikiTree.
It's a collaborative tree, so you can really only do one automatic gedcom upload, preferably only for a small manageable section of your tree that you're prepared to monitor and merge in duplicates when you find rellies also working there that you can collaborate with.
Thereafter maintenance should beLornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-16645985311763403112011-10-09T20:54:00.000+13:002011-10-09T20:54:37.335+13:00William GRAHAM or CARRUTHERSYesterday's post re Eleanor MURRAY, marr. to the William GRAHAM who died at Firbank
(thank you David for the photo), did of course lead me to re-examining the alternatives for their grandson William GRAHAM or CARRUTHERS, born 1791 to George GRAHAM of Firbank and Easet CARRUTHERS of Stagmire (who put off marrying until 1795).
David has added a third contender into the mix briefly discussed LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-25598893786132229002011-10-08T00:17:00.001+13:002011-10-08T00:17:15.909+13:00Right Eleanor after allI was obviously being too cautious back when I posted on William GRAHAM's page that the only marriage to an Eleanor that I could find was in Carlisle, and it didn't "feel" right for a Kirklinton couple.
David has very kindly posted the marriage bonds in my Guestbook, so William's page, and the GRAHAM tree have been updated to show Eleanor as a MURRAY.
Ignore the entries for RUNCIMAN in the recentLornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-7311215407118432602011-09-30T14:27:00.000+13:002011-09-30T14:27:27.330+13:00More twigsReplublished the WIGHT descendant chart to incorporate a few more of the twigs Harry has been feeding me in the last few days.
Also revamped the charts on the RUNCIMAN page as they were not yet in the new more interactive format.
This latter activity was prompted by some RUNCIMAN research where I stumbled across a family in Liverpool who tracked back to the line of William of Crail, and may, or LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-86476857071804164712011-09-28T21:06:00.000+13:002011-10-16T09:11:43.481+13:00Up to July on OGFOneGreatFamily updates now complete to end July, and yes, I mean 2011, so catching up.
Click here for an explanation of what this entails and why I do this.LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-20148203912962939992011-09-27T23:42:00.000+13:002011-09-27T23:42:06.805+13:00RootsWebIt has been a while since I updated the version of my pages on RootsWeb Freepages!
They still had the older version of the WIGHT family tree tracking back to Jennet SWORD instead of Margaret HOUD.
All remedied. Even had a bit of a theme change, and for a brief space of time is slightly ahead of my main site, Big Brother.LornaHennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-6417781593845069802011-09-23T17:16:00.001+13:002011-09-23T17:52:11.615+13:00More STEPHENSONsMurphy's Law no doubt states that the minute you do an update more information springs to life, or you find something wrong.
And if Murphy didn't say it, I will.
"Big Brother" has been reloaded with a few more WIGHT/STEPHENSON twigs, including a few more placeholders for the Australian branch that we'd love to hear from now that we know they exist!
LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-47176673073170754332011-09-22T23:55:00.000+13:002011-09-22T23:55:00.443+13:00One thing leads to anotherContinuing the recent activity from the WIGHT/THOMSON review led Harry to recheck for more of his WIGHT/STEPHENSONs, and of course I got sidetracked onto them as well.
Both of us were surprised to find another child, or possibly 2, in the family of William STEVENSON and Agnes RAMAGE, having found "mother", Mrs STEVENSON, living with a previously unknown son Thomas, and his brother William, in LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-72284076404850424392011-09-19T23:19:00.000+13:002011-09-22T15:28:17.672+13:00Expanding circleThe THOMSON/RUNCIMAN connections posted on the 14th, have led Harry and I into rechecking our assorted past trawls through the Maxton records, and others.
The most fascinating find was in Harry's old notebooks, where he noted that the Cautioner for the marriage of Thomas THOMSON and Mary LOCKIE (Maxton 1762) wasn't yet another THOMSON, but a Robert PATERSON.
Which Robert seemed rather likely to LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-42833346967295325162011-09-18T17:16:00.000+13:002011-09-23T10:56:09.880+13:00Contact madeHope my research is solid. I think I've finally made contact with a descendant, in Arizona, of my 2greats grandad's mysterious brother John.
HENDERSON chart has been updated with a few BINNIE twigs as a result, hopefully more to follow.
The other change in the recent changes index, Margaret King CREBER, is because a descendant has confirmed that the London death I'd found was indeed her, as LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-60784275113095387402011-09-14T23:01:00.000+13:002011-09-22T15:28:38.544+13:00Hopton, Millfield et alContact from Helen set me off on a THOMSON update.
She had noted William THOMSON of Hopton in my database and wondered what connection he was to me.
A first quick look showed that he was included because he, and his second cousin, had both married into my RUNCIMAN family.
But the mention of Hopton reminded me of the bunch of THOMSONs buried at Maxton, very close to my WIGHTs (who had THOMSON LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-81641974489039397732011-09-11T00:34:00.002+13:002011-09-22T15:28:48.648+13:00RICHARDSON/ANDERSONConfirmed that James RICHARDSON did indeed marry Frances/Fanny ANDERSON, 1891, Glendale.
Findmypast has a wonderful feature that you can tick so that name variants are searched for.
Fanny appears not to be a recognised variant for Frances.
Sure enough, as Susan has pointed out to me, James and Fanny did marry - in 1891, District of Glendale.
Many thanks.
LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-75881746652667807732011-09-07T14:48:00.000+13:002011-09-22T15:28:58.897+13:00RICHARDSON twig confirmedRalph's facebook activity prompted me to take a look at some of the unconfirmed RICHARDSON descendants in my database which led me to James RICHARDSON, son of Adam & Margaret (CRANSTON) RICHARDSON.
For quite some time I'd had him pegged as the unmarried shepherd in Northumberland in 1881, 1891, and the one in 1901 married to a Frances with a dtr Sarah.
I'm now happy that he is the right James as LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-25065521326932350012011-08-28T23:42:00.002+13:002011-08-29T11:11:35.078+13:0028th: Cleugh BurnfootMy main Family Tree web pages have been updated - only 4 months since the last update!
I think that all of the descendant charts are now in the new interactive format, ie lines able to be opened/closed in order to get a better picture of where someone "fits".
Took the opportunity to include the before/after images of Cleugh Burnfoot, home to James & Amelia (MILLAR) HENDERSON and family from at LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-64879333406604819152011-08-27T21:59:00.000+13:002011-08-27T21:59:24.265+13:0027th: That WilliamThe William LILLICRAP mentioned in the post of the 13th is now confirmed as belonging to John & Jessie (REEP) LILLICRAP.
As a result of this, and a number of other recent updates, WorldConnect database LornaHenderson has now been updated. LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-71562749202464433122011-08-26T21:26:00.003+13:002011-08-26T21:58:30.146+13:0026th: New DNA linkCourtesy of Dick Eastman's newsletter, anyone contemplating dna testing may care to visit this site.
It contains a newly written 12 page guide "How to Identify Ancestors and Confirm Relationships through DNA Testing."
The link has been added to Lorna's Links.
LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-14813159434204147912011-08-22T22:04:00.001+13:002011-08-26T19:03:49.575+13:0022nd: Well travelledNormally Fairbairn DNA project news appears in the blog related to the project.
This exception is because the latest kit order is for a line that should show up on my side of Lineage 1 - a descendant of Walter & Clarissa (FAIRBAIRN) FAIRBAIRN.
The contact has of course led to some updates to the tree.
Walter must have led an interesting life - certainly peripatetic, as I've found him traveling toLornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-48374197058575722602011-08-13T22:31:00.001+13:002011-08-26T18:04:19.846+13:0013th: Which William?A granddtr of William & Fanny Adelaide (PIERCEY) LILLICRAP contacted me as a result of William being in my BDM database of "likely rellies" LornaPotential on RootsWeb WorldConnect.
I'm now convinced that he does fit into the family of John & Mary Ann (SPURR) LILLICRAP family but whether as William son of Richard Henry & Jane (SPURR) LILLICRAP or as the son of John & Jessie (REEP) LILLICRAP is LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-57572645695632231702011-08-11T23:54:00.001+13:002011-08-26T17:13:06.289+13:0011th: Someone is wrong on the internet...While doing some FAIRBAIRN research I noted that someone had kindly uploaded the death cert. for James JARDINE to their ancestry tree.
Another tree had claimed his wife Mary FAIRBAIRN in rather fanciful fashion (hence the title of this post - I am often pointed at this xkcd cartoon "Duty calls" when I comment on yet another tree that has children born before their parents, marriages at age 5 etc LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-8980029967382383582011-08-08T16:30:00.001+13:002011-08-28T14:10:27.195+13:008th: OAG twigsAncestry's Recent Member Connect Activity alerted me to someone researching the family of David & Johnina (BAIN) OAG, so I had a look to see what light might be shed on exactly how many children Johnina actually had.
Time is running out for first hand knowledge as apparently there is only one of the children still living.
As yet I have no corroboration that Christina married to a James someone LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-64320169444423900312011-08-07T15:15:00.007+13:002011-08-26T15:35:32.501+13:007th: Railway recordsThe heading is a bit of a misnomer.
I was following information that Ancestry had included a number of Railway records and thought I'd see what I could find about Sir Robert TURNBULL and his railway oriented offspring.
Oddly enough, and most unusually (not), I got sidetracked once I realised that it had been some time since I last checked what might now be more readily available for this family.
LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-8869399145140119562011-08-01T15:04:00.002+13:002011-08-26T15:15:52.517+13:001st: Ignore "recent changes"Any "recent change" index showing changes to great great grannie Honor ROWE nee DAWE can be ignored, I was tweaking data to work better with the new version of Second Site (my web page generator from my TMG database) when it groups the events shown for each person.LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-47891405730662405042011-07-27T13:23:00.001+13:002011-08-26T15:06:43.173+13:0027th: ANDREWS/JULIANCousin Maureen has provided me with an update to the ANDREWS/JULIAN part of the tree. Faced with a heap of JULIAN offspring at Aunt Ruth's 90th birthday party, it was rather apparent that there was a bit of a catch up required on that part of Mum's family.
Few will show up online anywhere as they are all in more recent generations than are published in any of my trees.LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-22694867268227368862011-07-26T15:45:00.000+13:002011-07-26T15:45:02.975+13:0026th: SINTONs and TELFORDsThe update binge continues with my WorldConnect database LornaHenderson also being republished.
Of recent note are the updates to the Australian SINTON/TELFER/TELFORD descendants in Sth Australia. Thank you Linda for getting in touch and helping sort out at least some of the SMITHs of Glenburnie, and prompting the overdue review of Dorothy's 2008 info.
The Mt Gambier cemetery records were also a LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-5683630165179713092011-07-25T00:04:00.000+13:002011-07-25T00:04:12.652+13:0024th: Really am catching upCold miserable winter's day - a good day to catch up on publishing a few more months of updates.
All of my updates for Feb, Mar and Apr this year have now been uploaded to OneGreatFamily
(see this prior post for explanation of what/how)LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-11707062241431670442011-07-19T18:04:00.000+13:002011-07-19T18:04:58.458+13:0019th: Fewer orphansI'm in the process of checking another update to my WorldConnect database LornaHenderson.
Part of that check is to see if I can connect a few of the "orphaned" people in my database that are known to be related, but I've no idea how. They've usually been found because there were "grandchild of xxx" in a census, or informant for a BDM etc.
This time round I've placed:
- Thomas BROWN, informant LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-34577839618068526652011-07-05T22:41:00.003+13:002011-07-06T02:19:14.692+13:005th: Time for the SINTONsCourtesy of a couple of FindAGrave people finding my tree and providing links to headstones they had contributed to, a couple of SINTON branches have been updated, with additional help from the wonderful network of helpful people out there in the genealogical community willing to take headstone photos and search records they have (thank you Ken, Linda, Norrie & Scott).The updates will appear in LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-62057484760550074262011-06-02T23:38:00.000+13:002011-06-03T01:18:20.602+13:002nd: Where the Huttons led & what else I've learnt recentlyLinda and I may not yet have fully confirmed Linda's suspicion that the Robert and Catherine (MITCHELL) HUTTON family she found emigrating to NZ is Robert, brother to the James married into our HENDERSONs, but we've had a lot of fun trying to find out.As part of that trail I tracked down and contacted a descendant in Dunedin who has put us in touch with several others.A chance comment along the LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-80049284008215527352011-05-27T16:28:00.004+13:002011-08-26T12:34:47.053+13:0027th: DAWEs todayNoticed a posting in my Guestbook re the burial at sea of Maria Jane TRUDGEON, formerly PRYOR, nee DAWE, which made me realise I'd not checked for births in the family of her daughter Charity (married Albert BARDEN). Bit of a surprise to find 11 children registered in New South Wales.
The DAWE descendant chart has been updated to include these additional children.
Forgot to mention a couple of LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-14320603415306323802011-05-26T21:58:00.004+13:002011-05-26T22:23:18.742+13:0026th: Ross & Cromarty to WinnipegNearly a year on since Ross & Cromarty rose to prominence in my Border SINTONs (see prior post).This time the activity was prompted by contact from a researcher of the Canadian family of Margaret McRAE & William ROSS. Her research had the exact birthdate for her Margaret as "mine" and wondered if her Canadian family might be a match.Looks like it to me, not just from the exact birth date, but LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-19457860424475788952011-05-25T23:01:00.001+13:002011-05-27T13:06:16.008+13:0025th: TURNBULLs to FAMILTON?Still digging away at verifying the link back from my McEWAN descendant Sarah Margery JOHNSTON who married a George Miles/Myles TURNBULL, back up George's TURNBULLs to, supposedly, John TURNBULL and Bessie FAMILTON, the latter being of Earlston.Admit I'm having a bit of trouble with the chain of evidence.Can spot John and Bessie (FAMILTON) TURNBULL having children in Melrose, with John saying he LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-49432116580046956102011-05-24T18:39:00.002+13:002011-05-24T18:53:47.028+13:0024th: ConversionsThe catch up has been hindered a tad by the rebuild of my computer, but now that I'm starting to pop the data back onto it, I found a file I never could read when I first received it.A recent link in something that went past (sorry, I didn't note the source, tut tut), had mentioned a web site that converts any file - check out Online ConvertWorked a treat for me.LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-10077389459007396162011-05-22T18:53:00.000+13:002011-05-24T19:16:01.278+13:0022nd: How to pass time on your military serviceThe recent string of coincidences which had lead to the TURNBULL/FAMILTON connection (still being investigated/validated) mentioned a few posts ago did lead to further work on my McEWAN relations.This including catching up briefly with a fellow researcher of the NZ line.It had been so long since we were in contact that her email address bounced, so a phone call later I was in possession of a new LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-77447379617941728422011-05-17T14:02:00.003+13:002011-05-17T14:11:18.396+13:0017th: Catching up even moreI'm sure it (this catch up mode) will be temporary, but for now, my December edits to published data have been uploaded to OneGreatFamily (see this prior post for explanation of what/how), and my WorldConnect database LornaHenderson, which holds all my dead rellies and connections BDM data, has also been updated - so the links from the connections over the last week will now show updated LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-16069858855735585262011-05-13T22:23:00.000+13:002011-05-14T13:58:58.008+13:0013th: More connectionsYes the LEITH women noted a day or two ago were related, aunt/niece.And the connections continued!Sarah Abernethay LEITH married Thomas JOHNSTON, one of my McEWAN rellies.Their daughter Sarah Margery JOHNSTON married a George Miles, (later Myles) TURNBULL.An ancestry tree has this family, and shows George's TURNBULL ancestors as being of Melrose, with, wait for it, John TURNBULL and Bessie LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-75976073531348270752011-05-12T11:41:00.001+13:002011-05-14T12:20:17.596+13:0011th: Connections, connectionsThis HUTTON trail is proving rather fascinating.John Mitchell HUTTON, son of Robert HUTTON and Catherine MITCHELL shows up on the 1905-6 Electoral Roll in Woodhaugh, Dunedin.Woodhaugh is where my grandfather Archibald HENDERSON and wife Agnes Manson DAVIDSON set up home in 1908, Archie having moved down Leith Valley slightly from the farm at Helensvale.I wonder if they actually knew each other, LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-27470746620903522011-05-12T11:28:00.001+13:002011-05-14T12:16:37.105+13:0010th: Linda lucks out - againAnother of Linda's hunches is looking good.Shortly before heading off on an overseas trip 5 years ago I was contacted by Linda innocently asking if her husbands ancestor Margaret HENDERSON, married McGREGOR, just might happen to be the sister of my James HENDERSON whose fate was unknown to me.This resulted in a feverish bout of activity, when I should have been packing, with emails and LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-71965119854026454762011-05-07T18:57:00.006+13:002011-05-07T21:21:34.319+13:007th: Ancestry.com exceeding their briefI'm getting rather annoyed with Ancestry.com at the moment.Some years ago now I finally succumbed to keeping several trees on ancestry, liking in particular the wonderful hints for sources that may be for the people in the trees.As I research and find someone/something, I generally now pop the results of those searches into whichever tree is appropriate - keeping my master copy of all data on my LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-86413491006586853052011-05-05T23:16:00.000+13:002011-05-07T13:46:43.196+13:005th: Up to Nov at lastCatch up mode continues.OneGreatFamily now includes all my updates on people in my database edited up to Nov 2010 !! (This is a subscription site - I particularly like the way I can quickly find other people researching the same families)The process I follow for this is to select everyone in my database marked as checked for publication and edited during the month I'm about to upload - my own LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-28764264796986073102011-05-02T23:39:00.001+13:002011-05-03T12:22:19.417+13:002nd: Snippets here, snippets thereI'm in catch up mode.Emails from February last year have even been actioned (but not necessarily all the ones in between still awaiting attention)!My WorldConnect database LornaHenderson has been updated with all the current BDM data on the rellies and their connections, so that's the last two months of updates published with all the snippets that others have contacted me with, plus whatever I'veLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-26184315580805763212011-04-30T16:07:00.004+13:002011-04-30T17:08:32.471+13:0030th: A DAWE connection?An Isaac DAWE in a recent burst of activity on the DAWE Rootsweb Surname Message Board caught my attention, so I've been fossicking around in his family, that of John DAW (or DAWE) and Grace BEAL.This Isaac was a shipwright in Stoke Damerel rather than one of the millers who proliferate in my tree, so it's probably a bit of a stretch that his father John, born abt 1791 at Pyworthy (Holsworth) is LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-43967749819128766162011-04-22T15:35:00.003+13:002011-04-22T15:50:04.263+13:0022nd: The MABON connectionFurther to the happenstance a few years ago that found an Alison added into the tree of Walter and Agnes (ROBINSON) FAIRBAIRN, my FAIRBAIRN research into the family of John & Alice/Alison (AINSLIE) FAIRBAIRN of Swinton has just netted a connection to this latter family.Alison's daughter Agnes STEWART married a Thomas MABON.Likewise, Isabella FAIRBAIRN, a grand-daughter of Walter's contemporary, LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-12519293891414018782011-04-10T19:03:00.004+13:002011-04-10T19:22:40.621+13:0010th: Robertson or Robinson?On reflection, I've decided to plump for ROBINSON for Agnes' name.Reviewing which version (and excluding the slightly less commonly found ROBISON) was more frequently used when she herself could influence what was written down, ROBINSON wins.So I've updated Agnes FAIRBAIRN nee ROBINSON's page slightly, and had another (brief) look to see if there's any obvious marriage floating around for her LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-51042257741259913232011-04-09T23:17:00.001+13:002011-04-26T14:10:45.559+13:009th: Few more twigsMy BAIN descendant chart has been republished, both because it has a few more twigs on it thanks to Caroline who kindly sent me the Pulteneytown (Wick, Caithness) 1911 census for Archibald & Elizabeth (FORBES) MILLER, and because it has now been updated to the newer interactive expandable format I'm gradually converting most charts to.This inspired me to also tidy up Archibald's siblings by LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-27842465280950492952011-04-08T21:08:00.004+13:002011-04-08T21:26:00.019+13:008th: Never give upProof that you should never give up hope.Email from Ed awaited me this morning. Short and to the point: "Hallelujah, Proof positive at last"Attached was an image of a "Record of Soldiers and Officers in the Military Service enlisted since Jul 1863 and credited to other places".Second entry from the bottom was one FAIRBAIRN, John, of Hardenburg, born June 9, 1812, Scotland being discharged from LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-57295391343713832922011-04-02T18:51:00.003+13:002011-04-02T22:31:39.947+13:002nd: TransformationLove what can turn up in this hobby.I think I've just found a chap aging from 36 to 51 between leaving England 3rd Sep and arriving in Montreal on the 15th, via Le Havre.He and his wife were the only FAIRBAIRNs on the voyage, and the ticket number on leaving England is the same as that arriving in Montreal.When they left England they were both 36, and he was a mechanic.When they arrived in LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-5111395576212273502011-03-31T13:30:00.003+13:002011-08-26T12:59:57.477+13:0031st: Originals revampMy Originals sub site has been republished to use the newer descendant chart features now available from the program I use to generate these pages from my database (Second Site and TMG respectively).
The actual content has not changed, other than Simon ANDREWS' photo now including a credit to Janice (who provided the photo), this having been missed when I cropped the image for the web, and a fewLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-3494878349203853622011-03-20T17:36:00.005+13:002011-03-20T18:59:36.171+13:0020th: Ahhh Jim ladHarry drew my attention to another article in the Scotsman, this time one claiming that Jim HAWKINS of "Kidnapped" fame was based on a real life chap married to a Margaret WIGHT of Jedburgh.Yes, there was a Margaret HAWKINS nee WIGHT living in Bristo Place in Edinburgh, and yes she was born in Jedburgh (dtr of William WIGHT, millwright, and Janet RUSSELL, William being the son of Robert WIGHT andLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-20015791158983857312011-03-19T23:16:00.002+13:002011-03-20T18:00:08.481+13:0019th: Coincidence timeWhile on the phone to a descendant of the family that includes James FAIRBAIRN, the engraver of all those family crests, an email arrived in from Australia to ask me if I could help with a search for James Henry, son of a James, believed to be connected to the above engraver chap.Yes I could, James Henry was the grandson of said engraver, and I'd stumbled across him when trawling Australian LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-22364270277033302232011-03-17T23:24:00.001+13:002011-03-20T18:51:04.176+13:0017th: FAMILTONs and LEDGERWOODsFurther to the FAMILTON activity of yesterday, a bit more digging on the Northumberland families unearthed a John FAMILTON marrying a Margaret SENGERWOOD, or so the FamilySearch's England Marriages, 1538–1973 told me.FindMyPast however has her as LEDGERWOOD, under which name she is indeed shown in assorted census records.As my FAMILTON connection is on the branch of my tree including RICHARDSON/LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-9167925474168183012011-03-16T11:27:00.003+13:002011-03-16T11:39:56.442+13:0016th: John or Albert?Thought I was onto a lead for some modern day descendants of my rather distant FAMILTON forebears.One branch had ended up in Racine, Wisconsin, and I'd found what looked like the son John of the family living in Minneapolis in the 1920 census with a wife Margaret, and children Mabel and Winston. Age right, birth state right, father shown as born Scotland, occupation not out of the question.But noLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-65604344136944010952011-03-11T23:07:00.003+13:002011-03-12T00:02:45.271+13:0011th: BIDGOODsContact from a Ross in Australia asking what I knew about the Richard BIDGOODs in my tree.He had a Richard, supposedly from New Jersey, and 2nd son of a Richard BIDGOOD to try and track, and the nearest candidates in his search were my extended BIDGOOD family there.Not that there was a Richard, 2nd son of a Richard, in the expected timeframe to marry in Australia in 1884.Nearest was Richard son LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-58098935757097992011-03-10T23:03:00.000+13:002011-03-11T23:07:23.282+13:0010th: Harrow vs HarlowIt really does pay to check the originals.Two of the marriages for the ANDREWS line I'm working through at the moment were indexed as being registered in Harlow, Essex, which seemed a tad off the expected area of Harrow, Middlesex.Eileen assured me the marriages did indeed happen in Harrow, so I checked findmypast to see what they said about them.fmp did indeed have them both indexed, correctly LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-73001475304391376132011-03-02T19:50:00.001+13:002011-03-07T10:04:23.105+13:002nd: CREBER vs CREBERI shouldn't be getting sidetracked from assorted annual accounts, but this is so much more interesting.Ancestry told me that someone had saved a record I'd used to someone in their tree.That started me off on quite an update binge (still incomplete) of two lines of my very extended and extensive Devon families.As both husband and wife were CREBERs, chances are they were related, but it was soon LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-48568343847643798782011-02-28T23:14:00.001+13:002011-03-07T09:49:57.195+13:0028th: The rich Andrews relationsA surprise contact a couple of days ago from Eileen has resulted in several updates to the extended ANDREWS tree (which will appear in my World Connect db LornaHenderson in due course).She is a descendant of Luke, son of John & Tabitha (HUNT) ANDREWS.I'd never progressed to bringing her particular line right down to present day as I'd hit a stumbling block at Luke's son Hubert, although I had LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-14942048814058515782011-02-23T18:46:00.000+13:002011-02-25T08:55:42.573+13:0023rd: Another twig in CanadaHeard from Natalie this week, filling me in on what happened to Jane Henderson BAIN.She and James GUNN emigrated to Canada around 1920, settling in Tantallon, Saskatchewan.More details to come, but that's another line from John and Catherine (GRAY) BAIN whose fate is now know.Updates will appear in my WorldConnect db LornaHenderson in due course.Most work lately has been on FAIRBAIRNs, trying toLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-50563909878989584242011-01-19T20:45:00.003+13:002011-01-19T21:22:07.809+13:0019th: RevampSecondSite, the program I use to generate my web pages from my Genealogy database (TMG), has come out with some interesting new features.It was a good time to review bits of my main website.As always, when testing, I find things that are missing, have incorrect links etc etc, so a few of those have been tidied up, some snippets added to timelines and so on.However, the main change will be added LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-11471996780570488892011-01-13T14:58:00.000+13:002011-01-16T22:03:02.887+13:0016th: At lastNow that 2011 is well under way, I'm finally catching up on bits of 2010.My LornaHenderson database on WorldConnect has had a long overdue update.Not completely sure what all has changed since the last update (last August), but I do know that I've finally finished checking off the DAW updates Val sent, plus some work on the related families who connect.This time round (last attempt was 2002) I LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-79403246420919891212011-01-10T16:54:00.004+13:002011-01-10T23:59:54.524+13:0010th: Millers and publicansA welcome email arrived this morning enclosing a photo of William Matthias ROWE, found by his great grandson in his mother's photos - and Howard thought I might like it, given he'd found my web pages.Spurred me into a few updates on that branch of the ROWE/DAWE tree (William Matthias - Matt - is related twice over as his parents Joseph King ROWE and Thirza DAWE are brother and sister to my 2* LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-52411779710064265162011-01-06T23:31:00.000+13:002011-01-07T01:47:29.874+13:006th: IZON reduxHow many John Parnell IZONs can there be?
Or more accurately, why can't I find the one I'm looking for?
In the process of loading some overdue updates to OneGreatFamily I realised that I'd never fully convinced myself about Madeline Hilda IZON's parents.
I knew her father was a John Parnell IZON, timber merchant, deceased when Madeline married Douglas Maes TURNBULL (turns out he'd only died 8 LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-82967341670523626632010-12-30T23:42:00.000+13:002010-12-31T03:02:02.257+13:0030th: Keeping it in the family *2A last ditch attempt to see if I could any WIGHT descendants willing to join the WIGHT Surname DNA project before the good discounts run out at the end of the month (year) saw me seeing if I could update the family of this George WIGHT, whom, back then in 2005, I could not find beyond 1891.Still can't find him in 1901, but have found his wife and children, all in Southampton, and think I can spotLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-90955556207069143002010-12-28T12:19:00.000+13:002010-12-28T12:19:22.178+13:0028th: Where "matches" (don't) leadBless her cotton pickin socks.
I've just been notified of a match on MyHeritage, where the matching set were my HENDERSON 2greats, so of instant interest.
A quick response to my "why are you interested in James and Amelia" provided the information that her husband was a fourth generation down from them, via a Hulda JOHNSON which was a bit puzzling.
My immediate thought was that this was a LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-8836161387059540992010-12-24T23:43:00.001+13:002010-12-28T11:54:05.569+13:0024th: Calverts of CumberlandIn my true (dis)organised style, I strayed back into one of my Cumberland families today, which will result in some small updates sometime soon to my WorldConnect db LornaHenderson.
William CALVERT showed up as a(n incorrect) match to another on OneGreatFamily, so I thought it was time to identify him a bit more accurately to avoid a repeat.
In the process I learnt where Torpenhow and LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-48174261625215334852010-12-17T17:10:00.003+13:002010-12-17T22:00:09.920+13:0017th: We're all connected reallyOne of those wonderful coincidences that I love about this hobby.An email from a (4th) cousin from the WIGHT/RICHARDSON part of my tree, living in Edinburgh, greeted me this morning to point out that his mtDNA "Jasmine" (J) appears to have a fellow Jasmine descendant with Fairbairn ancestry, living in Wyoming.Given that mtDNA matches fairly seldom result in anything useful within genealogical LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-36768046237971411992010-12-09T12:39:00.003+13:002010-12-09T14:16:54.495+13:009th: Fewer "orphans"Still plugging away at those who would show up as "orphans" in my LornaHenderson tree on WorldConnect (not yet updated).The exercise of checking why does of course lead me into all sorts of little updates as I realise I can now find families in the 1911 English census, figure out who on earth that grandchild or niece with x or y in a census actually was etc etc.Had a bit of a chuckle at one LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-77375899465941643992010-12-02T23:18:00.000+13:002010-12-09T14:23:26.780+13:002nd: WIGHTsThe fledgling WIGHT DNA project may soon be able to report two Scottish Borders/Lothians lineages, as we now have a new member, one from a family tracking back to Longformacus. Wish I could find a willing participant for my own lot.Has to be a direct male line WIGHT for these sorts of tests - non invasive, no blood, can be completely anonymous if you wish.Check out the project diary, and get in LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-53507001115525766212010-12-01T12:53:00.003+13:002010-12-01T15:14:55.971+13:001st: Start of summerIt's the official start of summer here, and for once the weather knows it. We've been having wonderfully hot, sunny, windless days - no doubt we'll pay the price later with water shortages but for now, enjoyment is all.So what am I doing sitting inside? Checking (it's too hot out there).Fool that I am I decided to run an extra check against the data I upload to Rootsweb WorldConnect (ie BDM dataLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-66874852094162613592010-11-27T23:48:00.003+13:002010-12-01T16:00:56.906+13:0027th: Ipplepen updatesThe DAW(E) twigs will eventually be updated on both the main DAW(E) descendant chart, and my basic all BDM database LornaHenderson on WorldConnect, thanks to Arthur from Ipplepen who found the latter and realised I was connected to a family member whose funeral he had just attended.I quickly forwarded the email to a much closer relation, just in case she didn't know, and found that a) her email LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-1540989792211270972010-11-25T15:05:00.004+13:002010-11-25T15:40:46.777+13:0025th: Power of co-operationOne of the mysteries in my extended RICHARDSON tree has just been solved (not that I'd spent much time on it of late).The death of William McCulloch son of James Russell RICHARDSON and Bessie McCULLOCH had eluded my initial searches.Not surprising really, as my assumption was that he had died in Oamaru, or at least NZ.A fellow researcher recently spent some time tracking me down (didn't take her LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-76522166189579167202010-11-20T23:50:00.001+13:002010-11-21T01:26:37.465+13:0019th: Web updates/ interesting sitesMust be surfacing from the non genie stuff that has been swamping me most of this year.Think I've brought most of my web pages up to date, fixing several broken links etc (but probably not all).Have rationalised the FAIRBAIRN and RUNCIMAN project diaries into one each per surname instead of one each for their respective DNA and One Name Study projects - see FairbairnsAll and RuncimansAll for the LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-65620177182912369322010-11-15T23:10:00.002+13:002011-01-20T00:55:12.673+13:0015th: Minor updates to webReloaded my main family tree pages.You'll have to search fairly hard for the changes, none are the published people with pages of their own, so the recent changes index doesn't have any new entries.However several charts will now have new twigs on them and one or two added names as partners have been identified etc.eg William Fairside HAMLEY's wife has been confirmed as Florence Mabel THYNNE, andLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-24832489234764614172010-11-14T22:09:00.000+13:002010-11-14T22:09:52.638+13:0014th: OCRDon't you just love spell checkers and OCR text?
I'm working my way through the National Library of Australia's newspapers piecing together the family of the aforementioned Robert and Janet (AINSLIE) FAIRBAIRN, (and distentangling their grandson George from the George A of the Marrickville baker FAIRBAIRNs that several people seem to have confused the family with) and came across this death LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-84877087982300760612010-11-10T23:25:00.000+13:002010-11-10T23:25:38.791+13:0010th: Fantastic news from NASChris Patton's blog pointed me to the News section of the National Archives of Scotland - announcing that digital images of the Kirk Sessions, and other Church court records, are planned to go online next year sometime.
In the meantime, if you just happen to be in the Aberdeen or Orkney archives you can get a sneak preview.LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-78530533014358448282010-11-08T23:03:00.004+13:002011-01-20T00:49:38.103+13:008th: What happens when you run an audit?Thought it time to run an audit against my database, primarily to figure out if I had any pictures and sources not where they were meant to be.One that proved to be misplaced was a headstone photograph for Daniel and Mary Ann (LIPSON) SKEWES at Bere Ferrers.Which made me realise I had him in my database twice, and hadn't fully confirmed whether or not there was a third wife shortly before he diedLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-56440948391577967182010-11-03T23:45:00.003+13:002011-01-20T00:46:38.936+13:003rd: Coincidence time againLast week - investigating a Greenlaw Headstone featuring Isabella FAIRBAIRN as second wife of a George SUTHERLAND, merchant of Greenlaw - finding that her parents were a Robert FAIRBAIRN and Janet AINSLIE.Nothing much else available to be readily found on Robert and Janet.Today - using the introductory 24 hour free access offer to findmypast.com.au, finding a Robert FAIRBAIRN, resident magistrateLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-37261904925932029852010-10-31T23:58:00.001+13:002010-11-01T01:23:12.091+13:0031st: Does it still exist?While researching the TAYLORs that inter-relate with the FAIRBAIRNs of Greenlaw etc, I found this lovely little story about a memorial stone in the Threeburnford (Channelkirk, Berwickshire) stables.
The story comes from a History of Channelkirk, written in 1900 by a Reverend Archibald ALLAN, found on Google books.
A stone ... in the shape of a horse-shoe, with the arch at the top and the open LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-64944058246149666742010-10-25T15:31:00.004+13:002011-01-20T00:42:20.588+13:0025th: How many POVOAS wives? An explosive mixCousin Harry shared a certificate with me as he thought I'd be interested in the FAIRBAIRN on it (as well as one of our mutual WIGHTs).After processing it I checked the third birth on the page and realised that is was for another of our WIGHT relations, the birth of Elizabeth Jane WHITSON, dtr of Elizabeth WIGHT.I already knew that her mother had died in childbirth with Elizabeth, and that she LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05286264633982405918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-42990951852036413502010-10-10T18:25:00.001+13:002010-10-10T18:26:11.938+13:008th: Scots arise!I've just happened across confirmation of a baptism in an unusual source.
Can't say I've ever thought of searching a collection entitled "England and Wales Christening Records 1530-1906" (available on ancestry.com) for a Scottish birth or baptism.
When did Fala and Soutra move south?
I do admit that it went one better than the IGI extracted record as this "English" entry included both birth and LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-21470358517417609282010-09-26T23:39:00.000+13:002010-10-08T02:50:04.665+13:0026th: Enthusiasm vs accuracyContact from an enthusiastic, I presume, "newbie" to this wonderful hobby reminded me of the wisdom enshrined in the GPS.
No not one of those marvellous devices telling you where you are and how to get to where you should be instead, but the Genealogical Proof Standard.
To quote the Board of Certification of Genealogists (American)
"Proof is a fundamental concept in genealogy. In order to merit LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-90828425864234160272010-09-13T23:32:00.005+13:002010-09-28T18:29:10.072+13:0013th: Legerwood familyStewart popped out of the woodwork to talk FAIRBAIRNs.
Although we aren't directly related, unless we eventually find out that these are connected genetically to my FAIRBAIRNs, we do share an interest in the same tree.
His and mine intersect at Helen Martin FAIRBAIRN (dtr of the Rev Andrew Martin FAIRBAIRN) who married Sir Russell SCOTT, one of my RICHARDSON descendants. (Sir Russell appeared LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-71848908634759792692010-09-09T23:35:00.001+13:002010-09-28T16:30:11.900+13:009th: Relationships clarified & yet more connectionsReading old newspapers, as one does, I stumbled upon a different obituary for the Rev John FAIRBAIRN of Greenlaw than that I had previously seen. This one was in The Free Church of Scotland Monthly (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1 Jun 1895, and contained a new interesting little snippet for my FAIRBAIRN research: "Along with his more distinguished brother Dr Patrick FAIRBAIRN, Principal of the Free LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-23643699856998632032010-09-07T23:02:00.002+13:002010-09-28T14:35:05.574+13:007th: Longevity helpsAlthough a lot of my research these days is chasing direct male line FAIRBAIRNs and RUNCIMANs for dna project representatives for wanted lines, I don't necessarily overlook the females of the species.
We have to have our uses after all.
The benefit in finding out who a Jane FAIRBAIRN, aged 83, born Kelso, lodging in the same boarding house in North Berwick as a George H FAIRBAIRN, 47 born LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-83695821192828062302010-09-05T00:11:00.002+13:002011-01-20T00:26:04.603+13:004th: A recent exchange with Microsoft SupportHad a call back from MicroSoft "anxious" to close a call I had already indicated via email that could be closed, given that they couldn't understand what I'd told them, namely that their instructions could not be carried out because I couldn't access where I needed to be to initiate them.(which part of "I cannot access a command prompt to do any of that" do you not understand?")I mentioned that ILornaHennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-54574789379422252102010-08-30T23:54:00.003+13:002010-09-05T11:23:27.562+13:0030th: Never enough backups; New sourcesNothing like a computer problem to make you realise you never have enough backups, or enough of the right bits of the system.
The computer repair (see 13th, %^&#$ Microsoft security patch "installed" on the 4th) continues apace, but did involve a repair of my Win XP Pro operating system, which resulted in a(n ongoing) reload of my software, although MOST of the settings remained intact and the LornaHennoreply@blogger.com0