WOW,, What a wonderful site. I went looking thinking that I would never be lucky enough to find my family line there, but low and behold! There was JAMES FRASER and JANET RITCHIE and also their parents were named here too. I was so excited to see their names, and I even learnt a little more on James Fraser himself, lol, there was a complaint made against him for dropping dung upon the street in 1858... James and Janet came to Australia and here their family was raised, one son being William James Fraser, who my family is descended from. But I could not find William James Fraser on the site, I know from his marriage certificate that he was born in Moray, so I will keep looking to see if maybe his details do pop up oneday. I have a question now and hoping that SKS might be able to help answer it. On the site when I looked up James Fraser's father he was listed as " James Fraser Hardmuir". Janet Ritchie was named as "Janet Ritchie Whiteharriedwood". Also Janet's father was named as " William Ritchie Hardwood". What I don't understand is are the last names their surnames or do they stand for something else entirely? Hardmuir, Whiteharriewood & Hardwood.... Thanking you, Melissa in OZ. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Burgess" <anne.burgess@btinternet.com> To: <MORAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 4:46 AM Subject: LIBINDX onLine at Long Last!!! > LIBINDX, The Moray Local Heritage Centre index to people, places and topics > in Moray*, is now, finally, online! > > http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp > > *This means the present Moray, which includes the old county of Moray except > for Cromdale Inverallan and Advie, Duthil, and Abernethy; and the old county > of Banff except Banff, Gamrie, Boyndie, Fordyce, Marnoch, Forglen, Alvah, > Inverkeithny, Ordiquhill, and St Fergus. > > Have fun, everyone! > > Anne > > Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never fail to > be amused > > ______________________________

I have been having a look at the new database and it is very impressive however I found a couple of problems. The database does not work using Firefox, once I swapped to Explorer it worked perfectly. At long last I have found my GGGrandparents but the database seems to have a strange error. I looked up my GGrandparents, Marion Grant and Alexander Davidson and found two records - one each. The first for Marion Grant has her parents as Peter Grant and Margaret Murray. The second for Alexander Davidson has his parents as Robert Davidson and Ann Dunbar. I then went the IGI and couldn't find any families with these sets of parents. Poking around the IGI records I noticed a Marion Grant with parents Peter Grant and Ann Dunbar and then found Robert Davidson and Margaret Murray with a son Alexander. The IGI must be correct and the new database in error. I guess the moral is (as usual) to be careful! In case there are others with this family, I know have: Alexander Davidson, b. 22 APR 1808, ch. 25 APR 1808, Forres, Moray, Scotland Father: ROBERT DAVIDSON Mother: MARGARET MURRAY IGI Batch: C111372 Occ.: Cabinetmaker & Joiner, Elgin Died: 17 Mar 1890, 84 High St, Elgin Marion GRANT, b. 08 AUG 1823, Ch. 24 AUG 1823, Knockando, Moray, Scotland Father: PETER GRANT Mother: ANN DUNBAR IGI Batch: C111394 Died: 21 Sep 1894, Bevington Road, North Kensington, London Married 27 Nov 1840, Elgin, Moray, Scotland Children: Robert (b 1841) John (b 1843) (possibly druggist 293 High St, Forres, d 26 Aug 1870) Margaret Marion (b 1847) emigrated to New Zealand Marjory (b 1849) Grace (b 1854) Alexander (b 1856) Murray