<ashtonredlin@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Please can anyone give me an idea as to how I can search for a > relative? He was born in 1883 in Dundee, Scotland and he sent a > photo of himself aged c.30 from a hospital in Marshall, Texas. It sounds as though you don't know when he left Scotland. Checking the 1891 and 1901 census http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ would be a good start - at least it will reduce the time interval to be checked. Did he marry before he went? If so, his marriage cert will also be at Scotland's People. It might also be worth looking at the death certs in case he came back.... For the USA search, I'll hand you over to our trans-Pond cousins! Lesley Robertson Lesley Robertson <l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl>