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Thanks for help and advice. I have contacted the Fisheries Museum and given what information I have, On the Fishing Boat Heritage website in the Kirkcaldy registrations, Fisher Lass appears twice. One entry is KY56 owned by Andrew Taylor and operating from Buckhaven. There were many Taylor families ...

In tributes paid to my great grandfather Thomas Taylor (1846-1927) it is mentioned that he had been part owner of the boat Fisher Lass presumably fishing out of Buckhaven. At the time when herring were plentiful the fishing grounds stretched from Aberdeenshire to Tyneside. Latterly he was involved i...

I have a silver medallion which belonged to a great uncle. Looks like the kind of thing which would have been worn on a watch chain. Approximately 1" diameter, one side shows clasped hands as in a handshake underneath which is WELLS MOTTO. Reverse side says awarded to A Johnston but cannot make out ...

Milk & 1 sugar please Russell. Always ready to hear from the experts.
Mike

Never been to the Edinburgh facility but at the Mitchell you log in using a unique ID & password provided by the library. They now use the familiar Scotland's People search page so it is very like working from home. Your normal Scotland's People ID & password do not apply. As with all these centres ...

That is exactly what I have done. Real nuisance but does let you make full use of the CD's. New PC runs on Windows 8 64 bit so for anyone else looking to upgrade their machine be aware of this problem.

Think you will find the problem is with your Windows version. I can use the CD's with Windows 7 and I.E 10 but only with the 32 bit version of Windows. If your system is the 64 bit version then the reader will not work. LDS know of this but apparently have no intention of releasing another version o...

There were many small mines in Fife so it could be he was still working as a miner. One of my ancestors, a colliery blacksmith, moved from Lesmahagow in Lanarkshire to Fife so there must have been some movement. Regarding his service with the HLI my fathers cousin who lived in Ladybank Fife was in t...

Thanks to everybody for their help,links and comments. Yes the person was W G Duff, a cousin of my mother. I'm sure like many others doing research I wish now I had listened more carefully to her stories ( she had 42 cousins so there were lots of them ) W G Duff's parents were both teachers in Fife....

A relative of mine, serving in the RAF, died in Thailand during WW2. All the information I have gathered from Scotland's People, CWGC, and a photograph of his grave in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery show his rank as AC1. From various sources I believe he was a war correspondent covering a low level bom...