Hello As co-researcher and publisher of the booklets on Wauchope, Langholm (Old) and Staplegordon Churchyards; I can only endorse what Irene and Sandy have written below. However, researchers may wish to look up BMD notices from the "Eskdale and Liddesdale Advertiser". The newspaper started publication in 1848, so there are a few years available pre-compulsory registration. Many announcements contain more information than is available on ScotlandsPeople site. So far the paper has been indexed to 1881 and complete years are being added as transcribers finish a volume. http://www.langholmarchive.org.uk/lookup.php There's also an extensive photo archive (http://www.langholmpicturearchive.com/index.php) and a newly added old map look-up search facility for Langholm and the surrounding area. http://www.langholmarchive.com/maps/firstmap.php A glance through www.langholmarchive.com may unfold that piece of Eskdale information you've been looking for ages. Bruce > Hello all my fellow amateur genealogists and especially a warm welcome to > Bob Boss. > > Now for the reason I am writing.? My cousin has just send me the listings > of the memorials for the Wauchope, Staplegordon and Old Langholm cemetaries > which of course are all around Langholm.? It would be selfish for me to > keep them all to myself so I decided that I would do lookups for other > people as well. > > So just write me either here at the list or at my email address.? Be sure > to include the name of the spouse as well so I can make sure I have the > right persons. > > Take care. > Judi > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Judi McRae, a Proud Canadian living in the Glorious Pacific Northwest > (Tacoma,WA, USA) Please NOTE*** I am NOT researching the McRae name. >~~~~~~ Hi If your cousin has gone round those graveyards and made notes of all the inscriptions then that's fine, you're being generous in sharing. If, however, what she has sent you is the graveyard transcriptions as published Memorial Inscriptions of Langholm Old,Staplegordon and Wauchope Church Yards (Paperback) By (author) Brenda I. Morrison, By (author) Robin B. McCartney then perhaps you might like to re-consider. Apart from the issue of copyright, do you not think that giving the information away for free might discourage the transcribers from doing any more graveyards? The cost of a book is a lot less than a trans-Atlantic airline ticket......and without the local transcribers that will be your only option. Irene ------------------------------ ? Hi, I agree with Irene, its fine?being generous with your own work.? If it is the work of someone else then it can't be called generosity, can it? Sandy