Success tracking through the labyrinth

[grannysrock]

Congrats Russell and Sheena ,

I think your tale demonstrates what I love about this hobby (obsession ?) of ours. You have the great brain-stretching part where you have to be so analytical and lateral-thinking to track someone down, and you get that genealogist's high when you find them r prove your great theory. But then having tracked down the elusive man or woman, who previously meant nothing to you as a person, you start wanting to know more and more about them .

Question must be ‘What did this woman have that attracted the men to her ‘?

I don't know, but perhaps Helen will reel you in too after all these years ...

Sally
(I've got some film on my mind now with Christopher Reeves in it )

[Russell]

Hi Sally

Poor Helen Baird/Young/Lightfoot moved to Auchterderran with her Husband and died inan accident when she knocked over a paraffin lamp and set her clothes on fire.
Sheena tracked down the cutting in the Scotsman Archive. What a sad way to end an eventful life.

Hi Mcblondie

So far we have not tracked any one of the Youngs to Hamilton but that depends on when ? Could you give us a date for Robert & Jessie Young and we can have a look although, as you say, there are a heck of a lot of Youngs in that general area.
Wouldn't it be great if TalkingScot was able to bring three separate family lines together ?

Russell