Advice needed

[C_Bishop]

Hi Dave
Wow, yes, David and Elizabeth are my 5x gt grandparents, Elizabeth is the gran i mentioned previously who i have a photo of her home (prior to her marriage in 1813) I think i have the record you are speaking of, (handwritten piece saying the date of marriage and where they are from eg. Elizabeth of Blaikie Mill?)

Good luck on your Farquhar's. I'm stuck on David's father John Farquharson, i've been wondering if he may have used Farquhar for a surname. There is a number of us researching this family, with no success on him or Elizabeth's family.


Thanks for that link Meg, there are alot of good ideas out there!
Will be a challenge yet i think it will be quite enjoyable.....might need to find away to get a copy of whatever i come up with for others too!

Thanks
Cat

[C_Bishop]

Meg
Gosh your picture you drew is fantastic, and the inside of the book really nice, your so talented!!

Cat

[little meg]

Thankyou,
shame no housework gets done 

[C_Bishop]

Yes, very true. Once i get started on something like this everything suffers (especially my partner...who just doesn't seem to get it!) When i discovered his family was the Campbell's from Scotland and realised that his ancestors would've fought mine in the Culloden battle i was shocked....and gave him grief about it! Which he thought was completely unreasonable He might've had a point 
Oops off subject again!
My brother and his partner are coming for lunch tomorrow and i'm so unorganised as my mind has been on this!  Now i have to head off to work and won't get much at all achieved!

Thanks for all the tips and advice and for sharing your beautiful work.
Cat

[chrisanne]

Hi Cat

I have not been on this site for years!! 

However. just found your message from 2007 re the Carlton query - couldn't reply from it (Expired??) so found this one! Have since discovered they were Carolan (CO Cavan) - sorry for the delay but I do appreciate your message!!

I'm in NZ too!! Have you looked at the Pilot Reseach site on familysearch.org? They are adding lotsa Irish info all the time & I have found it very helpful!!

Regards

Chrisanne

[Family Tree Maker]

A lot of the brick walls I was hitting in the beginning of my research was because I didn't know all the other avenues that you could research. I was just checking birth, marriage, and death records - when I started looking at war records and census stuff my family tree project really got going   

[Kaybron]

Hi Cat,
Congratulations on your family news.  I thought I would show you the cover that I have recently put together for a book that I eventually want to print.  I did this in Publisher, a simple desktop publishing program.  If you do not have this you could also do it in Word which most people have.  I got the idea from one of the links that "little Meg" gave in an earlier post.  You could personalise each one, with the names at the bottom and the date and time of birth and a photo in the background.  Also if you had these printed in colour on really high quality photo paper, you could frame them.  This would also make a lovely gift. 
I have changed the names at the bottom of mine just for this post as relatives are living, but the details at the top are correct.
Regards Kaybron

[little meg]

Kaybron, love your idea.   It looks great and works well.
Thanks for sharing.

Margaret