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Hi Pam

Welcome to the forum and hope you enjoy the 'friends' and the help you will undoubtedly get.
Jenn

Hi Mandy

Good to hear that I am not the only one who gets sidetracked. I would say your among friends to help.
Welcome and Good luck in your quest
Jenn

Hi there
Glad to have you on board and hope you enjoy the group.....a great deal of help and learning is ahead

Welcome
Jenn

I have their marriage cert and it states that she is spinster and her age is 20yrs so its unlikely that she was married before....I have to say that I did think that might be the answer but as I did more research realised that this was not so....I would have thought the name Forsyth would be on my g...

Thanks for that but I have already looked at this marriage as I thought this was the correct path at the start of my research....but then on my grt granmas marriage cert read that her mother was Jean forsyth....what a blow that was.....but my granmas cert states her mother as Jane Robertson Brown (S...

I have now found Jean Forsyth death date 17/9/1849 and I think her parents are James Forsyth & Grisel Robertson...m.cert 30/9/1814.....this name Robertson has been the bane of my life as I couldnt find any marriage with this as the maiden name...... This name appears in my granma's m. cert and b...

I have now found Jean Forsyth death date 17/9/1849 and I think her parents are James Forsyth & Grisel Robertson.....this name robertson has been the bane of my life as I couldnt find any marriage with this as the maiden name.....m.cert 30/9/1814. This name appears in my granma's m. cert and birt...

I had the same situation finding out about one of my ancestors being in prison on the 1901 census and I wanted to know more details. I wrote to National Archives in Scotland and asked them for info. I was so pleased to have a reply this week and it told me what I needed to know.....But I didnt know ...

Yes I am researching my scottish family and there are some very peculiar names and I wonder where they come from. The first one was my gt granma name Jane Scobie Brown and her mother is Jean Forsyth but on my granmas marriage cert and other certs the name becomes Jsne Robertson (and sometimes Robins...

Thank you for that info and yes it seems that I had the wrong family - the 1881 census listing was incomplete as I didnt know it went onto the last 3 children and so thought Jane & Janet were the only ones. I should have known also that my granma Isabella would appear in 1891 as she was b in 188...

Hi all Am now having difficulty in finding birth certs for the following who appear on census 1891 in Peebles Scotland Joseph Brown age 7yrs - b. 1883/84 Alexander Brown age 1yr - b.1890ish Also in the census are James Brown 9yrs and Isabella age 4yrs (my granma) - I have got their birth certs and t...

Thanks for your replies and yes I do realise that it can be a good thing to have info regarding ancestors and to be found by others...as is some of the info received in the matches.....I suppose what I am saying is that a couple of photos of my immediate family have appeared on the website of which ...

Hi Has anyone had any concerns re: where websites get their information if not from you. Sometime ago I began entering my family tree into a website so I could see the full picture. This week I received a message from this website informing me that a match had been made with the info I entered. With...

Again thank you so much for your help and I am going great guns with the info so thanks again to you all. I am still having difficulty in birth certs for most of them.

I looked at my gt grandmothers (her daughter Jane) 1867 marriage cert and found the name Robertson Scobie but again have trawled the lists etc and found nothing. I have also found Jean Forsyth marriage to Andrew Scobie 1839 but there are no parent names. I cant find any birth certs that I am sure ab...