goldie and Lido Doratti wrote: > The info on this family I got off different census @ Scotlands People, but I > have a friend who has a disc with Scottish census on it and she has been > pulling some of them for me. There is no "different Census" - there were only ever the national decennial Censuses from 1841. What may be "different" is the index or transcription of the Census Enumerations. There are sundry indexes and transcriptions, which vary from what one might charitably call the "imaginative" (eg Ancestry) to the authoritative (such as those produced for their own local areas by the various Family History Societies). But anything that you find from any these these should *always* be checked against the original Census image, which is available both on microfilm and as digital images on ScotlandsPeople. Gavin Bell

Sorry Gavin, I didn't make myself clear. I pulled various years of census for the Walker and Anderson families. I never pulled all of them for all the families. Basically what I wanted was an overall picture of the main lines, so without spending a large amount of money, I could for example, find a family on the '51 and then get the '61 to find more children and then was able to get the baptisms etc, off the film of OPR's. When I did that, I would see, another example, a young child was missing, so then I could look for a death on the Peterhead site without going back to SP and paying to find the death info. All the places I got info from I recorded, so when I hand the Family Tree over, IF the family I am doing this for likes, they can go to SP and pull the relevant certs or registrations. This is not what I do for myself and my family trees, but I did this one that way, so they could pick up the threads, and hopefully give the widow and her 2 children something to think about other than the loss they have suffered. Roundabout way of trying to 'hook' future genealogists..... Goldie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gavin Bell" <g.bell@which.net> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Picking some brains here... > goldie and Lido Doratti wrote: > >> The info on this family I got off different census @ Scotlands People, >> but I >> have a friend who has a disc with Scottish census on it and she has been >> pulling some of them for me. > > > There is no "different Census" - there were only ever the national > decennial Censuses from 1841. > > What may be "different" is the index or transcription of the Census > Enumerations. There are sundry indexes and transcriptions, which vary > from what one might charitably call the "imaginative" (eg Ancestry) to > the authoritative (such as those produced for their own local areas by > the various Family History Societies). > > But anything that you find from any these these should *always* be > checked against the original Census image, which is available both on > microfilm and as digital images on ScotlandsPeople. > > > Gavin Bell > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Gavin Bell g.bell@which.net  wrote: .... But anything that you find from any these these should *always* be checked against the original Census image, which is available both on microfilm and as digital images on ScotlandsPeople. Excellent advice -- here is a case in point. A colleague in Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society was researching BOWIE in the 1901 Census. She discovered a 'Dragon' BOWIE in East Greenock Rewfrewshire. 'Dragon' being an implausable forename she checked the image of the census page and discovered his name was Angus BOWIE. Index of records can often be out-sourced and in this case it appears the out-sourcing was to China.  Maybe Angus in Chinese means Dragon? :-) Sandy in Dumfries SW Scotland Researching Adam  : Freeman : Mackie : Pittendreigh : Ritchie in NE Scotland   ________________________________ From: To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 29 November, 2009 19:58:35 Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Picking some brains here... goldie and Lido Doratti wrote: > The info on this family I got off different census @ Scotlands People, but I > have a friend who has a disc with Scottish census on it and she has been > pulling some of them for me.  There is no "different Census" - there were only ever the national decennial Censuses from 1841. What may be "different" is the index or transcription of the Census Enumerations.  There are sundry indexes and transcriptions, which vary from what one might charitably call the "imaginative" (eg Ancestry)  to the authoritative (such as those produced for their own local areas by the various Family History Societies). Gavin Bell ------------------------------- 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

Dragon in Chinese would be something like Leung or Lung. 'Ang ngu' or similar (the 's' doesn't really fit in Chinese) might be interpreted as 'red cow'. Hmm, that might work. Regards, John In message <271458.25647.qm@web87004.mail.ird.yahoo.com>, Sandy PITTENDREIGH <dfsgal@btinternet.com> writes >Gavin Bell g.bell@which.net  wrote: >.... But anything that you find from any these these should *always* be >checked against the original Census image, which is available both on >microfilm and as digital images on ScotlandsPeople. > >Excellent advice -- here is a case in point. >A colleague in Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society was >researching BOWIE in the 1901 Census. >She discovered a 'Dragon' BOWIE in East Greenock Rewfrewshire. >'Dragon' being an implausable forename she checked the image of the >census page and discovered his name was Angus BOWIE. > >Index of records can often be out-sourced and in this case it appears >the out-sourcing was to China. > > Maybe Angus in Chinese means Dragon? :-) > >Sandy >in Dumfries SW Scotland >Researching >Adam  : Freeman : Mackie : Pittendreigh : Ritchie >in NE Scotland > > >  > > > >________________________________ >From: >To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com >Sent: Sunday, 29 November, 2009 19:58:35 >Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Picking some brains here... > >goldie and Lido Doratti wrote: > >> The info on this family I got off different census @ Scotlands People, but I >> have a friend who has a disc with Scottish census on it and she has been >> pulling some of them for me.  > > >There is no "different Census" - there were only ever the national >decennial Censuses from 1841. > >What may be "different" is the index or transcription of the Census >Enumerations.  There are sundry indexes and transcriptions, which vary >from what one might charitably call the "imaginative" (eg Ancestry)  to >the authoritative (such as those produced for their own local areas by >the various Family History Societies). > > > >Gavin Bell > >------------------------------- >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 -- John Lovie

No, I don't think I'll include this one!! Ray PS on a serious note it is a strange but just about feasible misreading! 2009/11/30 John Lovie <john.lovie@unco.demon.co.uk> > Dragon in Chinese would be something like Leung or Lung. > > 'Ang ngu' or similar (the 's' doesn't really fit in Chinese) might be > interpreted as 'red cow'. Hmm, that might work. > > Regards, > John > > > > In message <271458.25647.qm@web87004.mail.ird.yahoo.com>, Sandy > PITTENDREIGH <dfsgal@btinternet.com> writes > >Gavin Bell g.bell@which.net wrote: > >.... But anything that you find from any these these should *always* be > >checked against the original Census image, which is available both on > >microfilm and as digital images on ScotlandsPeople. > > > >Excellent advice -- here is a case in point. > >A colleague in Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society was > >researching BOWIE in the 1901 Census. > >She discovered a 'Dragon' BOWIE in East Greenock Rewfrewshire. > >'Dragon' being an implausable forename she checked the image of the > >census page and discovered his name was Angus BOWIE. > > > >Index of records can often be out-sourced and in this case it appears > >the out-sourcing was to China. > > > > Maybe Angus in Chinese means Dragon? :-) > > > >Sandy > >in Dumfries SW Scotland > >Researching > >Adam : Freeman : Mackie : Pittendreigh : Ritchie > >in NE Scotland >