>From: James L Balmer <[email protected]> >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:08:06 +0000 > > >Any scraps you come up with could be invaluable. The problem is not unique >to the Balmers, but many of the children seem not to have been registered >at birth, or at least have not found their way onto the GRO(S) website, >There is also often a gap of a generation when a family left the Borders >and again when the ex-Border families left Ireland. It all adds to the >challenge. > Don't forget that GROS (and thus the IGI) is essentially Church of Scotland - if they were any other denomination, their records (such that survive) will be in the National Archive - which requires a visit.... The Borders were a hotbed of dissention in the 19th century - people seemed to switch their denominations fairly frequently. Lesley Robertson _________________________________________________________________ Play online games with your friends with MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/