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Sadly for FreeReg (working with the old parish registers) you would need to own or have access to a microfiche reader, as well as the PC.
Micro fiche readers are pretty obsolete these days and can be got quit cheap on places like ebay. I don't know if you have a freecycle or free ads in Canada but may be someone would even donate one to a good cause. Mine was kindly given to me on longterm load from the Highland Library here in Scotland. It really is worth advertising if you are keen as places like garages used to use them but don't so much these days so I am sure there are plenty in the back of offices somewhere.

FreeCen (working with census) is different, all you need it a PC for that as the pages from the census are on disk.

Although I am county coordinator for FreeReg I also am a volunteer for FreeCEN, as I like to change about, and both help with my own research. What a thrill it is when you find an ancestor  Let me know what you think and drop me and email if you want to know more.

Hi Kathy,
I have just sent you an email. I will be delighted to have yo on board. I do have the parish that interests you dispite it not been listed in my update. Shirley

Thank you both for getting in touch and sorry I was so vauge. It was late last night when I got the idea of putting a message on here.
Sadly I know very little about John and his brother. I do know John married after moving to New Zealand, and had family who lived somewhere called Rosehall.

An elderly relative told me about the connection and she doesn't know any more. I think John Ross's relatives kept contact with her mother (here in scotland) as she remembers seeing the letters, and noting the name Rosehall, but she told me she thought it was a place.

An educated guess would be that they left scotland in 1854-1855, arrived in New Zealand some time after that. I say this because if they lived near Rosehall, on a croft,(as I think they might have), it was at this time, estates around this area were evicting  tennents. I know for sure Margaret was involved in the Glencalvie riots, just before the evictions,and can account for people who were involved in the riots moving to the area where margaret later lived and married William Munro. They remained in Scotland.
 Christina Munro, margaret and williams daughter is the mother of the lady who told me about John.

Really I can't think of much else. I would guess John was born a few years either side of 1830, but I can't do much better than that. Family connections I do know of all come from crofting back ground, so I guess John was also from crofting back ground.

Regards Shirley

I am looking to trace the family tree of my husbands Granny.
She was Mary Dineen, born 1913 in Co Cork. She came to England about 1940 and later married Ronald Ball from High Wycombe.
Her mother was a Hannah Kelly, and one of her Grandparents had the surname Stanton. I know the family or relations of the family once owned the ground Cork airport now stands on. We are sure that we have family are still in the area. Dineen might be connected to a Loch Shop and Tougler, Co Cork?
Does this ring bells with anyone?
Thanks
Shirley

I hate to here of old photo's/ postcards going in the bin, but can't rehome all of them. 
However if anyone has photos from the Highlands of Scotland, needing a new home, please let me know.
Anywhere around Inverness and north I will consider. Ross-shire, Sutherland and Caithness, are my main focus, be it places, events or people.
Thanks Shirley