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By Roz, on November 19th, 2007% Yes, I’m aware it’s been a little quiet on the Roz Tree front…sorry! I have been continuing my research and I have a number of people to reply to, mostly regarding the Inglis family. I will be adding some data around the Inglis area soon, but not today.
Today I write about the surname MEIKLEMORROW. If anyone out there has ever come across it, congratulations. Even Google has Zero matches before this post is published – a true dying breed.
Elizabeth “Meiklemorrow” was the wife of Andrew McCaul and they lived in Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland. Their daughter Euphemia . . . → Read More: New avenues
By Roz, on January 10th, 2007% My husband and I write this blog because we want to remember what we did, where we went, and who we spoke to, to get our family tree(s) in order.
From trawling such sites as rootsweb, genforum, ancestryaid etc, I know that there are a lot of people out there interested in genealogy and desperate to gather information on ancestors. So far we haven’t put a full tree on the site (come on John!) but we know that this blog is getting hits and being read by people possibly descended from the very people we are writing about. If you . . . → Read More: Contact Us!
By Roz, on January 8th, 2007% I haven’t posted for a while because I’ve had the cold to end all colds. So apologies for the long silence – business as usual from today.
I have at last found out where the “Douglas” comes from in Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson’s name. It is, as I suspected, a surname of one of her ancestors: her father (John Crosbie Aitken Henderson) was the son of John Aitken Henderson and Isabella Crosbie. Isabella Crosbie’s parents were John Crosbie and Jean DOUGLAS. I know very little about these two people, apart from the fact that they married each other on 20th . . . → Read More: New Year, Same Tree
By Roz, on December 13th, 2006% 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.
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
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