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By Roz, on December 3rd, 2006% For a while we’ve been trying to find out more about Jessie Ann Inglis. She married Alexander Brand Inglis, but hailed from a completely different branch of Inglises (phew!). Until a few days ago all we knew about her was that she was born in India, around 1849, and married Alexander in India in 1868.
Then we realised that www.ancestry.co.uk had made transcriptions of two more Scottish censuses available – 1851 and 1861. We had already looked on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk but had had no luck in locating Jessie anywhere in Scotland. Trying again on www.ancestry.co.uk and using their new . . . → Read More: Jessie Ann Inglis
By Roz, on November 15th, 2006% I’ve been trying to determine if Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson had any siblings aside from the Jessie Henderson we already knew about.
Daisy’s father was John Crosbie Aitken Henderson, and her mother was…ok, we still haven’t determined that for sure, but anyway, the point of this post is about the specificity (lovely word) of searches on internet search engines, for example Google.
When looking for a person, say, John Crosbie Aitken Henderson, you may be tempted to search for “John Crosbie Aitken Henderson” (note the speechmarks). In this case, the only site returned would be this one. If on the . . . → Read More: Handy Hint #1: Internet search parameters
By John, on November 7th, 2006% 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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