Hello Gary, It sound like you have already done a lot of research in Scottish records, so you may have already done my suggestions, but I'll offer them anyway. When you think in North American terms Scottish parishes were tiny. Sorbie was only 6 miles across. So also look in neighbouring parishes for records. You can also see what years particular parish registers are extant on the Scotlandspeople website in their information links. http://www.scotlandspeoplehub.gov.uk/research/list-of-oprs.html If you find the Statistical Accounts for Sorbie parish at http://edina.ac.uk/ And read the one for 1838, it says that the OPRs for Sorbie weren't kept up very well. It also briefly mentions the schools. Kirk Session records might be another source. Sorbie doesn't seem to be filmed by the LDS so you'd have to look for them at the National archives. Some of the kirk session records for parishes have a few births and marriages in them. There is also a mailing list just for Wigtownshire you could check. You could also check with the Dumfries and Galloway Family History Society and see what Monumental Inscriptions they have for Sorbie and Wigtown. Maybe there is one for Margaret's husband. They have a computer database. Jane/Jean's 1900 census record said she immigrated to US in 1850. Although sometimes the immigration date isn't correct, there might be a chance the family is in the 1841 Scotland census. Also check Adams spelling minus the s. I took a quick look but nothing seemed to fit. Newspapers may be a source. You might be lucky and find something. When one of my ancestors died in Canada, a notice appeared in the Dumfries paper. It was the only record I ever found about his death. There is a published index in several volumes called 'A local index of the "Dumfries and Galloway Standard and Advertiser" and its predecessors over 200 years' Other newspapers are also indexed by the local Archives: http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2300 Good Luck Joanna Waugh > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:51:27 -0400 > From: Gary Gaertner <garygaertner@gmail.com> > Subject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Jane Adams: born 1 Nov 1825, Garlieston, > and Margaret McGarva Adams, born about 1805 > To: DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <AANLkTimj0chX82pBOjY4Cm2AC2iDyc6N78eMj5VwpK4t@mail.gmai > l.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello: > I am a new lister, and I would be extremely grateful for any suggestions. > My direct ancestor, Jane Adams, stated that she was born on 1 Nov 1825 in > Garlieston, Wigtownshire. Presumably Garlieston belonged to the parish of > Sorbie.