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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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 One of the items we received last week was the book “Oor Ain Folk” by the Hon James Inglis. It’s subtitled “Being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack Aboot Auld Times” and was published in 1894. I’ve finished reading it and enjoyed it very much. It concentrates on James’s father, the Reverend Robert Inglis, and his part in the “Disruption” of the Scottish Church in 1843, as well as a collection of anecdotes about his family and other characters in and around Glenesk (or Lochlee). Most (non-family) anecdotes seem to revolve around whisky, the drinking of . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk 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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