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From: Singhals <>
Subject: Re: Scottish records
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 10:20:47 -0800


Stuart Thomson wrote:
>
> In article <9058oi$qs6$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, David Hewitt <
> gcomed.demon.co.uk> writes
> >Can anyone give me a few tips on how to use the net to research my Scottish
> >ancestors? I already know about the Scottish Record Office site - is there
> >anything else of particuar help?
> >
> >
> Yes, by joining a family history society or societies covering the
> area(s) where most o your ancestors lived.

Excellent advice, I'm sure, but back up a step --

I aearch a name that is associated with ALL the clans and which
appears in every Shire in Scotland; documents on the US side give
only "Scotland" in the early 1700s -- how please does one
establish what those areas ARE?

What steps are needed for that determination?

Cheryl

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