This may be an appropriate place to summarise. For genealogical purposes we make much use of the IGI and the problem, for Listers outside the area, seems to be the term "Forfar, Forfar" as applied to a birth/baptism,/marriage record. This should be read as "the Parish of Forfar in the County of Forfar(shire)". The Parish of Forfar includes the town of Forfar in which the Old Parish Church (now the East and Old) stands. The Parish also includes country districts surrounding the town including many large farms and estates largely to the south and east. To establish whether the event took place in the town or surrounding district some further research is required, particularly in the field of old farm, estate and street names. The County of Forfar(shire), as already discussed, is largely the Angus of old which became Forfarshire then reverted to Angus. Except for the fringes of the City of Dundee and a small area near Cupar Angus (which is all in Perthshire), Forfarshire and Angus can be regarded as the same geographical area. No doubt there will still be "grey areas" but, as always, there will be somone on this List that can help. Cheers, Bruce D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Burgess" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 8:06 AM Subject: Re: [ANGUS] Dundee -- Once Forfar now Angus -- When? > You are correct, of course, Anne but > the two Wikipedia articles, one on > Angus and one on Forfar(shire,) don't make the distinction > you so ably > made in your other message. The two articles discuss > the county, not > specifically the town/parish (of Forfar.) That may be, but in that case it is Wikipedia that is in error! > In fact, if you enter "Forfarshire" as the Wiki term, you > end up with > the ship that sank in 1838 (or whenever it was.) What more would one need to demonstrate the inadequacies of Wikipedia? Anne ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3798 - Release Date: 07/30/11