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From: "Janet" <>
Subject: Re: [Mull] Rowat/Stirling
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:55:09 +0100
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I'm glad you have picked up on my point, though I realise in searching some people rely heavily on it to acknowledge their achievements, though I don't think we have the right to criticise, its a matter of subjective choice I think. As all of us can make a typing mistake in transferring data into whatever family tree software we choose, its easy to see how it can happen. How many families in the future will never know more of their ancestors than as far back as their grand parents?

My paternal line is a tangled web with multiple marriages and first cousins marrying; I know this to be so, because I found a live member of the family.

I have a John Irvine Chester born Glasgow 1871, marrying an Agnes Irvine similarly born Glasgow, 1872, in Manhattan, N. York 1899. [both dates have day and month] I was alerted with scepticism when I found that Agnes Irvine's parents were John Irvine and Agnes Chester who married on 23rd June 1865. On the face of it we know that people did intermarry, providing they weren't Roman Catholic, but one only needs a wee calculator to see that Agnes couldnt have been able to marry at the age of 7!

Janet
Traced: Dun/Dunn, Angus
Sherret, Kincardineshire
Chester, Glasgow
Rowat, Campbell, Argyll




----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Cameron" <>


> RE IGI
>
> Beware of IGI....i.e. - my gt grandfather, Christopher Johnstone(born 1828 Ecclefechan Dumfriesshire, etc., son of James Johnstone, born 1792, died. March 1858, Axeltreewell Farm)son of George Johnstone, born december 23rd, 1737) is listed on IGI as having two 'different' mothers========the correct mother was Mary Grisela Irving, son of John Irving, NOT a Mary McLean, etc.
>
> There are numerous errors listed on IGI, and, also, many of the family histories are hearsay, and incorrective, i.e. ---Camerons of Cornwall Township, by Duncan MacDonald.


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