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By Roz, on August 9th, 2010% 
Inglis Memorial Hall
It has recently been brought to my attention that the Inglis Memorial Library in Edzell has been closed by the local council and replaced by a 2-hour weekly mobile library service. The Library, as well as 5000 books (for what point is a library without books!), was gifted to the village of Edzell (in Angus, Scotland) in 1898 by Sir Robert William Inglis in memory of his parents and uncle. The gift was supported by a trust fund, and the opening ceremony was a . . . → Read More: The Inglis Memorial Library: CLOSED
By Roz, on February 8th, 2010% I’ve spent the past couple of days hunched up in front of my laptop squinting at blurry text from the late 1800s. But it’s worth it.
The NLA Australian Newspaper Archive is a brilliant website (as is Papers Past, the New Zealand equivalent) that has simply offered up its entire historic archive (from 1803 to 1954) to view, free of charge.
. . . → Read More: National Library of Australia: Australian Newspapers Archive
By Roz, on February 7th, 2010%  The above gentleman is not a direct ancestor of mine, but he was the second husband of my ggg grandmother Louisa Maria Loveday. (My ggg grandfather Captain John Inglis was born in 1805 -we think in Midlothian- and died in India in 1849)
After Captain Inglis’ death Louisa and her children moved to Edinburgh. In 1853-54 Louisa and John Pourie met and fell in love, (after mutual intercessionary prayers and a great deal of soul searching, the book would have us believe) and became engaged . . . → Read More: The Rev. John Pourie (1825-1867)
By John, on February 4th, 2010% Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis (which we’ve mentioned previously here and here) is now scanned and available to be read in its entirety online now. For some reason it can’t be viewed through Google Books but from the Open Library website despite it originally coming from Google. No matter, find it here. I’m going to update some of the older posts with links to the relevant pages. Note that it is the second edition they have online while we have the first edition. I don’t believe there are any real changes genealogy-wise, only one . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis now online
By John, on March 30th, 2008% As mentioned in the last post there was two circular letters published in Oor Ain Folk. The second is transcribed below. From pages 266 to 270.
The next was written a full decade after the foregoing, and the observant reader will see that in the interim death had been busy, and that our hitherto happy and united family was beginning to feel the common fate of all merely earthly associations and institutions.
1st January 1884, Warepa, Otago, N.Z.
My Dear Mamma, and all the Members of the Family, big and little,—
. . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Circular Letter from 1884
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