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Bill Fernie
11-Oct-04, 20:45
The North Highland Archive can help with family history enquiries, please email us
at north.highlandarchive@highland.gov.uk

North Highland Archive Pages on Caithness.org are at -
http://www.caithness.org/community/museums/nha/index.htm

Highland Council Genealogy Centre
http://www.highland.gov.uk/educ/publicservices/genealogy.htm

Scottish Archives Network website
http://www.scan.org.uk

National Register of Archives
http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/

National Archives of Scotland
http://www.nas.gov.uk/

See Also
Genealogy Links On Caithness.org at-
http://www.caithness.org/links/geneaology.htm

Family History - A limited section on Caithness.org
http://www.caithness.org/history/familyhistory/index.htm

Caithness Family History Society
http://www.caithnessfhs.org.uk/

Sutherland
County Of Sutherland
http://www.countysutherland.co.uk/

Bill from Saskatchewan
19-Apr-06, 14:56
You gave a number of websites that we can access, can you tell me the cost involved with the different sites. I know my family is from Keiss and surrounding area, and that they are on the 1881, 1861, 1851 cencuses but there is no records of births or christenings that I have been able to find. Where would you recommend I check?

Bill

fred
19-Apr-06, 19:25
You gave a number of websites that we can access, can you tell me the cost involved with the different sites. I know my family is from Keiss and surrounding area, and that they are on the 1881, 1861, 1851 cencuses but there is no records of births or christenings that I have been able to find. Where would you recommend I check?

Bill

For births and christenings try the Intrnational Genealogical Index (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true)

htwood
19-Apr-06, 21:06
Bill, an even more accurate site is www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

The rates are very reasonable, they are listed clearly on the site.

The Mormon's IGI can be very helpful to get you started, but is full of inaccuracies and should only be used to point you in right direction of the actual document. -H

b1b2j3
28-Aug-06, 19:21
Genealogy Links On Caithness.org at-
http://www.caithness.org/links/geneaology.htm

Thank you for assisting...Bron

Kingetter
29-Aug-06, 01:40
Genealogy Links On Caithness.org at-
http://www.caithness.org/links/geneaology.htm

Thank you for assisting...Bron


Typo there - word should be - genealogy as spelt above - a spelling booboo - try correcting the spelling in the url you quote - should be fine.

molly
14-Sep-06, 12:06
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

Issy13
01-Oct-06, 12:24
This is a very good site to find information about ancestors:

http://www.cursiter.com/

RONI
30-Nov-06, 16:54
The cost of doing family research from other countries ie. USA, Canada and
within the UK may seem reasonable to their inhabitants but to us in South Africa the pricing is prohibitive. We have an exchange rate of approx.
Rand 13:00 - R 14:00 to 1 Pound! which makes researching through
Scotlandspeople, etc. a luxury. Perhaps the Administrators could look into
this and consider making some concession for us considering that we do have
a fairly large scottish descendency population even though we are at the
southern tip of Africa! Here's hoping. Thanks for your great website which has given me so much information regarding my Sutherland ancestory and for
free!!:lol: :)

trinkie
30-Nov-06, 17:14
Hallo Roni,

Yes the cost can add up, but dont hesitate to ask here on Caithness.org for any help you require.
You likely know the free sites - IGI and Freecen and of course graven-images the Latheron graveyard.

If you give your names and dates etc, we'll be pleased to help all we can.

Happy hunting,
Trinkie

RONI
01-Dec-06, 15:36
Thanks Trinkie very much for your offer of help. Fred very kindly assisted me
some months ago (listed under DUNBAR SUTHERLAND FAMILY - LATHERON &
SOUTH AFRICA). I am looking for information concerning the parents,
JOHN SUTHERLAND and MARGARET MACRAE, possibly from Dornoch, of my
great, great grandfather ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, builder, possibly christened at Dornoch 30 December 1807. ALEXANDER was married to
JANE ROBERTSON on 11 December 1846 in the parish of Loth. They are buried in grave no. 12 Lairg Old Churchyard. ALEXANDER died 23.1.1877 aged
68 and JANE died 27.4.1862 aged 39. I am starting to research my paternal
grandmother's family tree (The Mitchell Gates family from Tunbridge Wells, Kent) hence my query regarding the cost of research.:grin: :grin:

mary
30-Dec-06, 22:17
A fairly new site for Genealogy
www.scotlandsfamilytree.moonfruit.com.............

Very friendly and very very helpful folks who run this site.

Mary.

Angela
03-Jan-07, 11:58
Happy New Year Mary!

I've tried to join this site but it keeps telling me my membership is "pending".

Did you have any problems? I wondered if it was maybe just over the Festive Season it was a bit slow. Or perhaps it's just me...:(

Angela
03-Jan-07, 12:08
This is a very good site to find information about ancestors:

http://www.cursiter.com/

I haven't found anything specific on this site about my ancestors, but it pointed me to www.rousayroots (http://www.rousayroots) which is a wonderful resource for anyone with connections to Rousay. One of my gt gt uncles (Munros) moved there in the 1860's and the amount of info I've gleaned (free of charge, which is always a bonus) about the family, the families they married into, and the island in general, is amazing. :D

Rousay Roots was a book written by Robert Marwick which is now O.P. but he's set up this website with the info. I'd love to get a copy of the book as well though if I can lay my hands on one...

Angela

mary
03-Jan-07, 15:20
[QUOTE=mary;177297]A fairly new site for Genealogy
www.scotlandsfamilytree.moonfruit.com.............

Very friendly and very very helpful folks who run this site.

Happy New Year to you also Angela,

Try this url.


http://scotfamtree.11.forumer.com/profile.php?mode=register

Mary.

Angela
03-Jan-07, 15:38
Thanks Mary, that seems to have worked.:D

mary
09-Jan-07, 10:58
[QUOTE=mary;177297]A fairly new site for Genealogy
www.scotlandsfamilytree.moonfruit.com.............

Very friendly and very very helpful folks who run this site.

CORRECTION
sorry this is the url to register
http://scotfamtree.11.forumer.com/pr...?mode=register

caroline
09-Jan-07, 23:19
Have tryed your website below and was refused without reason not impressed.

[quote=mary;177297]A fairly new site for Genealogy
www.scotlandsfamilytree.moonfruit.com.............

Angela
10-Jan-07, 00:19
Have tryed your website below and was refused without reason not impressed.

[quote=mary;177297]A fairly new site for Genealogy
www.scotlandsfamilytree.moonfruit.com.............
Hi Caroline

I was also refused using www.scotlandsfamilytree.moonfruit.com (http://www.scotlandsfamilytree.moonfruit.com) again with no reason, but I was accepted straight away when I used Mary's corrected URL.

I have found the website very friendly and helpful - the emphasis does appear to be on the Glasgow area so far as I can see though.
Which is fine -but almost all my relations are from Caithness & Ross-shire...

Maybe worth your while trying again?

Angela

mary
10-Jan-07, 13:20
Hello,
Not my Website, but as I said before very friendly and helpful people.


http://scotfamtree.11.forumer.com/profile.php?mode=register

Mary.

dtlinshart@aol.com
31-Jan-07, 13:44
http://www.sctbdm.com/search.php


The North Highland Archive can help with family history enquiries, please email us
at north.highlandarchive@highland.gov.uk

North Highland Archive Pages on Caithness.org are at -
http://www.caithness.org/community/museums/nha/index.htm

Highland Council Genealogy Centre
http://www.highland.gov.uk/educ/publicservices/genealogy.htm

Scottish Archives Network website
http://www.scan.org.uk

National Register of Archives
http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/

National Archives of Scotland
http://www.nas.gov.uk/

See Also
Genealogy Links On Caithness.org at-
http://www.caithness.org/links/geneaology.htm

Family History - A limited section on Caithness.org
http://www.caithness.org/history/familyhistory/index.htm

Caithness Family History Society
http://www.caithnessfhs.org.uk/

Angela
31-Jan-07, 14:58
I've got McAfee SiteAdvisor on my pc, which helps identify "problem" sites with a simple "Traffic lights system".
Green: no significant problems, Amber: exercise caution. Red: more problematic.
BMD exhange gets the green light!:)
However, there's a similarly named site, BMD Certifcate Exchange that's RED.[evil]

airdlass
11-Aug-07, 13:12
Brilliant site for anyone looking for family with Sutherland connections.

http://www.countysutherland.co.uk/

ljsutherland
29-Jul-15, 00:46
Thank you for this information, very much appreciated!

mixo
28-Oct-16, 04:21
Hello Bill,

Greetings from West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. I have only found your site and forum today, resulting from in-depth research for a Family History site building project, I am hosting. More concisely, one of my great uncles Archer Angus Skinner, born in Victoria in 1890 and served in WW1, married Margaret Green Cormack ( aunty Rita ) in Leith in 1918, before they resettled permanently near Melbourne.

My access to your country's records is quite limited from here, however if my notes are accurate, I believe aunty Rita was born in Wick, to Walter G Cormack (born c1855) and Maggie N. McAlpin in 1889 (born 1859). Rita graduated in 1915 at Edinburgh University with a Master of Arts, and the Uni has just posted a photo I have of her on her graduation day. I have a copy of their marriage certificate, and their marriage bore no children, however I am very intrigued by some old unlabelled photos of Rita, shown with 2 girls whom to my eye, may well easily be sisters.

If I may add, my eyes nearly popped our of my head when I found one of your old Forum archives, mentioning a Walter Cormack, lodged by a P Cormack.

I would really appreciate any leads you may be able to relay back to me, in regard to this enquiry.
In the mean time. warm regards from chilly Victoria, and thanks for your time.
K. J. Mixo Sydenham
Host of www.skinner.org.au (http://www.skinner.org.au)

Tomnamuidh
10-Aug-18, 13:11
Hi Bill. When there is a reply to my posting is there a way for me to know this? eg:sending me an email advising me that there is a reply.

William Innes