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Lanarkshire / Re: Lanarkshire rsources
« on: Thursday 31 March 11 18:41 BST (UK) »
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Lanarkshire / Re: Lanarkshire rsources
« on: Wednesday 30 March 11 18:30 BST (UK) »
In the interests of transparency since this is a link to a commercial site, can you clarify if you are connected with the site you recommend? I can't help but notice that both your austinfamily.com website and this one are registered to the same French address.
Regards
Helen
Regards
Helen
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Fife / Re: DIVORCE
« on: Wednesday 11 March 09 18:23 GMT (UK) »
Hi Chiad
Thanks for your support. In this case there were two reports, a very inocuous one, and one which gave details of the reason for the divorce. I'm not insensitive to the fact that some people don't like to find things out about their relatives, but I made the judgement that, since the poster had asked how to find out more, they would want the information. The second report was removed without a word to me so I edited my first post to remove that too. If I had been alerted to their objection, I would have removed in a trice. Surely going to rootschat should be the second option? No doubt both reports have kept for their research without a word of gratitude ....
Haven't bothered with rootschat since, and won't be bothering in future.
Helen
Thanks for your support. In this case there were two reports, a very inocuous one, and one which gave details of the reason for the divorce. I'm not insensitive to the fact that some people don't like to find things out about their relatives, but I made the judgement that, since the poster had asked how to find out more, they would want the information. The second report was removed without a word to me so I edited my first post to remove that too. If I had been alerted to their objection, I would have removed in a trice. Surely going to rootschat should be the second option? No doubt both reports have kept for their research without a word of gratitude ....
Haven't bothered with rootschat since, and won't be bothering in future.
Helen
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Fife / Re: DIVORCE
« on: Tuesday 13 January 09 19:48 GMT (UK) »
Having gone to the trouble of finding a further report relating this request, I am rather surprised to see it removed. Had the person who objected contacted me, I would have happily removed the information and apologised for any offence caused. I am getting used to the trend in genealogy for people not showing any gratitude for information found for them, so will just not bother in future. 
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Lanarkshire / Re: Dodds/Mysterious Train Death in 1906
« on: Monday 15 December 08 19:15 GMT (UK) »
Here is a report from the Scotsman 26 November 1906.
Killed on the Railway
Mr Walter D. Dodds, a Glasgow writer, residing at Lenzie, was killed on the railway on Friday night at a place about half a mile west of Lenzie Station. How he came to be on the line is not known. The head was completely severed from the body. Deceased was a son of a former headmaster of Queen Mary Street School, Glasgow, and was himself very well known in the community. He was for a time election sub-agent for the Unionist party in North-West Lanark, and subsequently election agent in the Kilmarnock Burghs. He was about 33 years of age, married, and is survived by a widow but no family.
It's not likely the Herald would contain much more but if you contact the Mitchell library in Glasgow, they hold copies.
Helen
Killed on the Railway
Mr Walter D. Dodds, a Glasgow writer, residing at Lenzie, was killed on the railway on Friday night at a place about half a mile west of Lenzie Station. How he came to be on the line is not known. The head was completely severed from the body. Deceased was a son of a former headmaster of Queen Mary Street School, Glasgow, and was himself very well known in the community. He was for a time election sub-agent for the Unionist party in North-West Lanark, and subsequently election agent in the Kilmarnock Burghs. He was about 33 years of age, married, and is survived by a widow but no family.
It's not likely the Herald would contain much more but if you contact the Mitchell library in Glasgow, they hold copies.
Helen
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Fife / Re: Lunphinnans Address
« on: Tuesday 11 November 08 21:38 GMT (UK) »
I would say it is Stone Row.
Helen
Helen
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Fife / Re: Drowned at Sea
« on: Wednesday 10 September 08 07:33 BST (UK) »
Hi Trish
It's definitely worth purchasing!
Just in case this is of use to anyone in future here are the names given for the men who died in the Mary:
Peter Spence, Thomas Heugh, John Robertson, Andrew Christie, John Heugh, George Fairgrieve
Regards
Helen
It's definitely worth purchasing!
Just in case this is of use to anyone in future here are the names given for the men who died in the Mary:
Peter Spence, Thomas Heugh, John Robertson, Andrew Christie, John Heugh, George Fairgrieve
Regards
Helen
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Fife / Re: Drowned at Sea
« on: Wednesday 10 September 08 07:21 BST (UK) »I too have a few drownings in my ancestral tree, since my mother came from Banffshire and a fishing background. It would have been nice to have some account of writeups of missing boats/drownings to add to my tree. I have the Buckie site but it would help to look further for information.
Dear KHP
I'm not an expert on finding reports of drownings but the newspapers of the time are often a good bet. Those available on-line with particular relevance to Scotland include the Scotsman, Caledonian Mercury, Glasgow Herald, Aberdeen Journal, Dunfermline Journal. Many rootschatters, regardless of where they are based, will have access to these and I'm sure would be glad to help.
If you're asking for a look-up, please post as much detail as possible, names, dates, name of ship if known, starting point, destination, home town etc. All of these can be used as key words in a search. In this case, the detail given was not enough to find anything but, as I have followed several of these threads, I thought there was a good chance the source was the Fife FHS death CD. A search on that for "seaman" and 1849 revealed the men were from Pittenweem and that keyword picked up the reports. Incidentally, the CD also mentions that a report would be found in the Fife Journal on 8 March.
I hope this helps and you manage to find something on your family.
Regards
Helen