This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: genealogy126126 Surnames: Finley Findley Findlay Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.findley/528/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 30 Apr 2010 >From Warren Forsythe - genealogy126 @ Fairpoint.net FOR European origins of early Finley and Findley families === at http://wc.roootsweb.com see databases named findleys and townsendthos and ildaunewtest which all post the lines from several early USA Finley and Findley families, showing that so many different lines descend from Finley family of late 1500s in Newburn parish, County Fife, Scotland for several years Rosa Lee has posted http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=findleys&id=I15193 I recently happened onto a ca. 1938 book called TORRENCE and Allied families, which has a section of "The Finley Family" --and starting at page 192 it tells Scottish details of late 1500s and early 1600s Finley families near Newburn parish in County Fife. That's about 12 miles north up the coast from the city of Kirkcaldy in County Fife, or about 25-30 miles NE of Edinburgh --and from Edinburgh that 25-30 miles NE to Newburn Parish is across the ocean of the Firth of Forth. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=townsendthos&id=I6543 is my first report on Findley/Finley trying to merge your fine database with above "The Finley family" in ca. 1938 Torrence and Allied Families I've also posted a version which emphasizes different USA lines, and de-emphasizes some lines shown better on the above database townsendthos http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=ildaunewtest&id=I57703 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.