As mentioned in Roz’s ramble last week images of the Old Parish Registers for Scotland are now viewable online through Scotland’s People. It’s helped a bit while following the only Scottish line of my ancestors. Beforehand the OPRs were always searchable and you could get a decent transcript of some of the information on them, such as birth date and parents’ names in the case of births, but to see the images can add so much more. It used to cost £10 a pop to have a copy of the image posted to you but now you can donwload . . . → Read More: Old Parish Register Images in Scotland
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It’s been a while – two weeks is a long time in genealogy. Firstly – Psychology 101. When I first set up my family tree on www.ancestry.co.uk I created it as a “Private Tree”. At some point later, it got accidentally saved as a “Public Tree” and therefore available to the whole world to view. Not a problem in itself, apart from the fact that some annoying “feature” of the tree is that you cannot tell it specifically who is alive and therefore who should be marked as “Living” – the tree displayed all my grandfathers’ details despite the . . . → Read More: Ramble… As a History graduate (only a Desmond though: I have no pretensions to rival Starkey) I was taught to differentiate between types or classes of evidence and quality thereof. When dealing with conflicting stories or facts it is helpful to understand the order of reliance or amount of trust you can or should place upon each item. Primary evidence is, to me, irrefutable proof of an event, its nature, and hopefully timing. Although modern digital cameras and wizardry with graphics can produce “fake” reality by messing with pixels, in general it can be replied upon that “the camera never lies”. . . . → Read More: Handy Hint #2: A Census is not Primary evidence. When in Scotland a few weeks ago we visited the National Archives in Edinburgh. Got ourselves a reader’s ticket each and were shown how to use those new-fangled computing machines by the nice young lady to search for what we wanted. Well, I wanted what I talked about previously. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get hold of the trial papers for 1838 as apparently their legal department is looking into it. Why on earth they are interested in these papers I don’t know. I can only guess somebody is writing a history of rioting in Dundee in the first half of . . . → Read More: A Reason for Lyon Violence, Intimidation, Destruction – these are not the reasons why David Lyon was behind bars in 1841. These were the reasons he was behind bars in 1838. It was for the jolly crime of assault to the danger of life that he was put there in 1841. I found this information out online. Which was great as I didn’t fancy popping in to Dundee for a whole day on our way to Edzell later on this month. As with almost everything, I started my search with Google. I went looking for prison records for Scotland. I soon found that the . . . → Read More: Assault, Malicious Mischief, Mobbing and Rioting |
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