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    1. [ANGUS] Research in Scotland - NAS and elsewhere
    2. Wallace Fullerton
    3. I will be visiting Scotland in June and will have some unscheduled time to locate records that might help take back my family research a bit further than I've been able to accomplish from the U.S. in the several decades I've spent searching books and microfilm (pre-Internet) and online resources. I would like to ask this forum for suggestions. As most of you know, an increasing amount is available through online resources (familysearch.org, ancestry.com, Scotlandspeople, etc.) but its not all there yet. While several of the experienced researchers have mentioned some of their sources in recent days in response to other queries, I am hoping there might be resources available only in Scotland that might be useful. So that you don't head in unproductive directions, here are some of the specifics of my search to date: My 4G-grandparents were George Fullerton and Margaret Pirie, married 1739 with banns called in Dun and Dunnichen parishes. George held the tenancy at the Mains of Dun (part of the Erskine estate near Montrose) from about 1739 through 1757, and all of their ten children were christened in Dun. About 1757 he relocated his family to a tenancy near Benholm, Kincardine. His grave marker at Benholm, placed by a son about 20 years after his death, suggests he was born in 1707 but provides no other useful information. The only George Fullerton I have found in the OPRs (for any parish in Scotland) for that year was born in Lunan Parish, the son of a blacksmith but I've found nothing else suggesting the two are the same George. Similarly, there was a young Fullerton family in Dunnichen about 1700, a John Fullerton in Glenskinno (near Dun) about the same time, and a Fullerton family who owned the nearby Kinnaber estate (Quakers, however.) Some descendents have "claimed" these and others as "our" family but based solely on the circumstance of proximity. The Pirie family seems equally difficult to find. All that said, it was my hope that records from the Erskine estate (the House of Dun, now a National Trust property) held by the NAS would provide a clue - there are something like 8 linear meters of such records which had not been cataloged when I was previously in Scotland. Apparently the cataloging has occurred in recent years and, to my dismay, the online database suggests that NAS has little to assist me. While I intend to look through the estate records that might be promising, I am now trying to identify other resources available only in Scotland. If any of you have suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated. I have no particular constraints on my travel or time while there but hope to focus on the most promising areas. I am fairly experienced and have no difficulty straining my eyesight on old documents. Thanks in advance for your ideas! Wallace Fullerton Kensington, MD

    02/28/2013 04:13:45