Thanks, George. Venita On Jan 4, 2010, at 12:44 PM, George Brander wrote: > Hi Venita > I think you will find that George Michie was born at a different Oyne also > in Aberdeenshire > This is a link to some photographs of that area of Aberdeenshire > http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ6825 > Regards > George > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Venita Roylance <venitar@mac.com> wrote: > >> Thanks, George, for the link to the photos. My ancestor, George MICHIE, >> was born in Oyne in 1707. Seeing photos of where he lived makes him more >> real to me! >> >> Venita >> >> On Jan 2, 2010, at 7:12 AM, George Brander wrote: >> >>> Thanks Gavin for the confirmation of the pronunciation of Oyn. >>> >>> Doing some google searches I found this website with some interesting >>> photographs by Anne Burgess of the old buildings at Oyn and the >> surrrounding >>> area of Drumfold ,Smallburn and Sinsharnie >>> >>> http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=9916581 >>> >>> Like all photographs by Anne the ones on this site (almost a thousand >>> images) are quite stunning and of great interest to someone like myself >> as >>> they bring to life the landscape, buildings, places and farmsteads of >> this >>> area which formerly were just names on the OPRs . Well worth a look if >> your >>> ancestors came from the Strathbogie area of Aberdeenshire >>> >>> regards >>> George >>> -- >>> George Brander >>> Torre de la Horadada >>> España >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > George Brander > Torre de la Horadada > España > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message