thankyou all for your replys. have not got any further but now I suspect that the connection will be through a 2nd marriage or indeed an illegitimate child. The person did exist as there was a carving on his headstone depicting him with a sword in one hand and his entrails draped over his other arm as when he was having a sword fight had his stomach slashed opened but continued fighting till the end!!!
Now that I know is hard to beleive.
Thomas 'the doughty' Dickson.....
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DavidWW
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Just picked up on earlier comments in relation to tracing forward.
While it is indeed most often expensive to trace forward on SP, it's not at all expensive to do so on a visit to New Register House or Park Circus etc. in Scotland.
In addition, even for commonly occurring surnames the techniques are not that difficult. Once a line can be brought forward to a marriage in the ealry decades of the 20th C then it's relatively easy to bring forward the line to possible present day living relatives because of additional info that was added to the birth indexes in 1929 and death indexes in 1974.
Starting from an 1830s marriage for the not uncommon surname GALBRAITH, and spelling variations, I recently was able to bring lines forward to a number of potential living relatives, with several of whom my friend has now made contact! Total cost?, - 4 x daily entry fees to NRH, - something between 90 and 120 credits on SP, and maybe £10 for 50p photocopies at NRH.....
David
While it is indeed most often expensive to trace forward on SP, it's not at all expensive to do so on a visit to New Register House or Park Circus etc. in Scotland.
In addition, even for commonly occurring surnames the techniques are not that difficult. Once a line can be brought forward to a marriage in the ealry decades of the 20th C then it's relatively easy to bring forward the line to possible present day living relatives because of additional info that was added to the birth indexes in 1929 and death indexes in 1974.
Starting from an 1830s marriage for the not uncommon surname GALBRAITH, and spelling variations, I recently was able to bring lines forward to a number of potential living relatives, with several of whom my friend has now made contact! Total cost?, - 4 x daily entry fees to NRH, - something between 90 and 120 credits on SP, and maybe £10 for 50p photocopies at NRH.....
David
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gloryer
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DavidWW
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A proportion of search places are always kept back for sale on the day, but you then take the risk that you might be too far back in the queue, although the queues haven't been more than a handful of folk recently.gloryer wrote:How far in advance do you have to book with NRH? Also can 2 people book one place between them? if you know what I mean. My friend and I would both like to go so could the 2 of us just book for one place or would we both have to book together?
Given the distance that you'll be travelling I wouldn't even consider taking the risk.
As far as I'm aware there's no restriction on the period for advance booking.
Sharing, unfortunately, is not allowed
, so you'll have to book two places, - but make it clear that you'd like them side-by-side, and, please, please, keep your voices down as low as possible when discussing situations in order to mimimise the disturbance to other researchers ......David
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