Family History Enquiries

[Issy13]

This is a very good site to find information about ancestors:

http://www.cursiter.com/

[RONI]

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!!

[trinkie]

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]

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.

[mary]

A fairly new site for Genealogy
www.scotlandsfamilytree.moonfruit.com.............

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

Mary.

[Angela]

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...

[mary]

[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/pr...?mode=register

Mary.

[Angela]

Thanks Mary, that seems to have worked.

[mary]

[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]

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]

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 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.

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