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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Lost Cousins - Customer service at it's worst?
« on: Tuesday 30 August 22 19:13 BST (UK)  »
I have to agree with bones5, it was totally inappropriate to post details in a 'newsletter' of the family of the young child who had so very recently passed away - it was insensitive & frankly outrageous when his family are still coming to terms with it. At a minimum, I expect to see a very humble apology front-and-centre of the next issue of the newsletter.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Sighthill Cemetery
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 13:34 BST (UK)  »
Okay, sounds like you're not really in need of my help then. Although I would say that an 1856 burial at 7ft in a Script 2865, may well indicate a burial (possibly a child) prior to 1856 at a depth 9-7ft. You'll have to turn to Scotlandspeople to progress that. Good luck.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Sighthill Cemetery
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 12:41 BST (UK)  »
And if you can make a guess that an earlier burial was a parent or grandparent, then once you know when they died, you can look up the Sighthill Daily Interment book for their date of death & see if they went into the Lair prior to the Burial you already have.

Most burial Lairs were family plots - so it's likely that immediate family of the Burial you already have, are the ones buried in the Lair.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Sighthill Cemetery
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 12:36 BST (UK)  »
Ah, unfortunately you're scuppered then as the Script Book I think was lost or destroyed (not sure).

However, I recommend you look at the year & particularly the depth of the Burial you already have. Most burials of the first person in the Lair, are at around 7-8ft (although a few at 10ft). If the Burial you already have is at say 4ft, then you can be pretty certain there's at least one other burial beneath them, and potentially 2 other burials (allow 1.5ft to 2ft per burial).

Also, the year of death for the Burial you already have - if it's quite recent, say 1910, then because the Script number is a low one & therefore an old Lair, then it was obviously bought a long time before say 1910 & therefore probably has someone else in the Lair. If there is a lot of years between your Script number (Script 2865 = 1845-50) and the Burial you already have, then it's likely that the Lair was bought to bury a parent or even a grandparent & the subsequent burial you already have was a son/daughter going into the 'family lair'.

Did that make any sense?

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Lanarkshire / Re: Sighthill Cemetery
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 12:13 BST (UK)  »
Obviously, without a Script Book entry, you will not be able to tell who else is buried in the Lair.  You will need dates of death & name or address for each burial so you can look them up individually in the Daily Interment book.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Sighthill Cemetery
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 12:10 BST (UK)  »
To view the Sighthill Daily Interment books (or Script Books after 3983), you need to:

1. go to  familysearch.org  and sign up for a free account
2. login to familysearch.org and select to 'Search Catalog' (you want Catalog, not Search Records)
3. Enter "Glasgow" in the search box and choose "Scotland, Lanark, Glasgow" and press the "Search" button
4. In the resulting list, expand the entry for "cemeteries"
5. Select "Sighthill Cemetery" from the list
6. You will now see links for the available microfilms - choose the film you want to view & click the small camera icon. You can then begin paging through the film one page at a time or you can jump back/forwards by entering a page number.

The films are NOT indexed, so you cannot search them except by plodding through the film pages.

I recommend you do the above on a PC as the film viewer doesn't work properly on some mobile devices.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Sighthill Cemetery
« on: Sunday 17 July 22 12:01 BST (UK)  »
Unfortunately the Script Book for scripts below 3983 are missing, so you won't be able to look up the entry for Script 2865.

However, if you have a date of death & a name or address, then you can look up the Daily Interment book for the burial details of your ancestor.

If you only know the month of death, then you can easily page through the Daily Interment book searching through several pages for the right death. If you're the type to persevere, you could even page through 2 or 3 months worth of burials. But if you only know the year of death, then you'll probably have to read through 50+ pages of deaths to stand any chance of finding who you are looking for.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Help pls, Photo of gravestone from Sighthill cemetery, Ibrox?-John Robin Lindsay
« on: Thursday 16 December 21 18:48 GMT (UK)  »
The Burial Register indicates John Lindsay is in Compartment 6, Class W, Lair 1.

Here's a link to my cemetery map on FindAGrave.com:
https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2020/336/CEM2287987_73493dab-70bd-41b6-8b0d-6ebddee9f91a.jpeg

The Lair Owners Register' can be consulted using Script L729

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The Common Room / Re: Sighthill Cemetery Help
« on: Thursday 16 December 21 18:38 GMT (UK)  »
Compartment 2 is at the Keppochhill Road end of the cemetery.

Here's a link to my map on FindAGrave.com:
https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2020/336/CEM2287987_73493dab-70bd-41b6-8b0d-6ebddee9f91a.jpeg

Compartment 2, Class S, Lair 157 can be 'approximately' located as Section 2, Row S, Lair 157.

It would be useful if you posted the 'Script' number as well as a name & date-of-death.

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