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« on: Friday 10 December 10 16:23 GMT (UK) »
hi folks
I am very honoured to have been asked by the development manager of Auchindrain Trust to begin a One Place Study of the community of Auchindrain township.
Although the place has been in trust for nearly 50 years, the concentration of effort to date has been on the buildings. Bob Clark, the new development manager, has a wonderfully ambitious but very practical and realistic agenda for the future of this unique local historical resource.
A major project for this winter, is to fill in the gaping holes in the knowledge of the site, as well as to make some major physical improvements to the facilities for visitors and for the sustainability of the site. In the realm of the missing data includes an almost non-existant genealogical history.
SO -- a blank database sits in front of me !!
Exciting, to be able to bring the people who have lived in the houses and worked the land to life for future visitors.
The people of Auchindrain have a vital role in the plans for the township -learning about the makeup of each household, the trades of the township and surroundings, what caused people to move in, and to move out, and how people have lived in this uniquely preserved township over the centuries past, will inspire many of the projects and activities of the future.
It is a unique opportunity to be actively involved in an inspiring genealogical project.
BUT, there is always a but. I have only been given a very short time frame to get the initial project done. So I am asking for help from anyone who has any information about the township and the people who were born, married, lived, worked and died at Auchindrain so as to get the most information in the shortest time to work on. I want to give them the fullest picture we can come up with.
The focus for the first stage is very specific: to get as much detail as possible of the people who actually lived in Auchindrain itself. But I am very happy to hear about, and archive for the future, any information you have about descendants of those who once touched Auchindrain.
Be patient, please, it may be quite a long time before we can really widen the scope of the One Place Study, but everything about the township is valuable, and, I think, should be archived in the museum for future study.
I know from my own experience that it is in the most unlikely places that you get the most interesting information.
I am asking everywhere I can find, and am happy to hear from anyone about any resource you think might be useful to us.
Do you have ancestors, images, receipts, records, gedcoms, photos, any paperwork, anything at all you would share, that will help tell the story of the people of Auchindrain.
project email address is : auchindrainpeople[at]yahoo.co.uk
I look forward to hearing from you.
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