I came across this site recently and thought that other list members may be interested http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk it has a lot of photographs and old maps and some interesting other things like a 1797 roll listing those liable for the horse tax, which contains a list of names, addresses and number of horses. So it may prove useful to some list members to have a look. In particular I think Gavin may be interested in http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/hay_shennan/pdfs/aberdeenshire-boundaries.pdf which is the report on the redrawing of parish boundaries for 1892. Although given your interest in old maps Gavin I'd be surprised if you haven't seen this report before. I'll also make a quick mention of http://www.lostcousins.com which is an excellent and quick to use site for matching up people from the 1881 census. Basically you enter anyone in your tree who you have found on the 1881 census and because it asks for a reference from the census eg: district/page number etc which you get from sites such as Scotland's people, Familysearch.org & Ancestry.com etc it can make a 100% definite match up with anyone else who shares the same relative. It's very quick to enter everyone once you get started, and no-one but you ever sees the data you have entered until you make a match. Once a match is found, which is almost instant when you enter the data, it alerts you and the other person there is a match and gives you the opportunity to contact each other. Really useful and 100% matching unlike say "hot matches" on other sites such as Genes Reunited. -- Alexander Bisset IT Administrator Aberdeen Harbour Board ______________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked by Dionach for all known viruses using MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.dionach.com

Many thanks, Alexander, for the link to Scotland's Places. I've just spent more than an hour browsing, and can see that it will be a very useful site. Love it!! Venita On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Alexander Bisset wrote: > I came across this site recently and thought that other list members may be interested http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk it has a lot of photographs and old maps and some interesting other things like a 1797 roll listing those liable for the horse tax, which contains a list of names, addresses and number of horses. So it may prove useful to some list members to have a look. > > In particular I think Gavin may be interested in http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/hay_shennan/pdfs/aberdeenshire-boundaries.pdf which is the report on the redrawing of parish boundaries for 1892. Although given your interest in old maps Gavin I'd be surprised if you haven't seen this report before. > > I'll also make a quick mention of http://www.lostcousins.com which is an excellent and quick to use site for matching up people from the 1881 census. Basically you enter anyone in your tree who you have found on the 1881 census and because it asks for a reference from the census eg: district/page number etc which you get from sites such as Scotland's people, Familysearch.org & Ancestry.com etc it can make a 100% definite match up with anyone else who shares the same relative. It's very quick to enter everyone once you get started, and no-one but you ever sees the data you have entered until you make a match. Once a match is found, which is almost instant when you enter the data, it alerts you and the other person there is a match and gives you the opportunity to contact each other. Really useful and 100% matching unlike say "hot matches" on other sites such as Genes Reunited. > -- > Alexander Bisset > IT Administrator Aberdeen Harbour Board > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This message has been checked by Dionach for all known viruses using > MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit > http://www.dionach.com > > ------------------------------- > 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