Pam, I don't have any connection to your Dempster line, but would like to mention that ancestry.com has for years made KKD an abbreviation for Kincardine and thusly assigned all the Kirkcudbright parishes to that county. For some reason they have never put forth the effort to fix the problem, leaving people unfamiliar with Scotland putting their ancestors in the wrong part of the country. Jo-Ann On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:49 PM, PMR via <ayrshire@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I've also found James's birth noted in Carsphairn in Kincardineshire, > whereas I think Carsphairn is really in Kirkcudbrightshire. > > Many thanks > > Pam > Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia > >