This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: maryschacht Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.scotland.ans.general/5996.3.2.2.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: research means looking to ALL records, not just Civil and church OPR, for B/M/D, census, tombstones, wills, land evaluation done every 10 years, guild and occupation records, military, education, doctor/physician, rental records, taxes, and the other religions. The Presyterian main branch of that church is at the GROS/SRO, cetralized in Edinburgh, and since that is the only place the LDS ever filmed, it's better to get every records you can, we must do an exhautive search, use your judgement as each must be evaluated,as we try to see if it is reliable, it maybe misspelled, so learn to use wildcards on Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (scots peeps) Try looking at the local newspaper clippings from Scotsmen newspaper websites. Wellgate (Dundee central public libray) for an obit, it may be one line, but if it says to copy in another village, it maybe where he was from. British newspapers, has a pay-to-play (commercial website) while I'm making assumptions about length and depth of knowledge, Iam doing a one name study of Powrie/Pourie/Purrie so felt I might give you an opinion on using naming pattern. write me offline, and while doing this you may ask anything. (30 years experience at doing a hobby in as professional method as taking online courses, using actual records even though we CAN use transcripts, transcription add another point for injecting human error. I "work" hard to keep my heritage alive. Removing doubt, with the help of my online family. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.