This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cruickshank, Kruckshanks, Crooks et al Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BgC.2ACI/1264.1.2.2 Message Board Post: Anne, Voila - here is Pont 8 http://www.nls.uk/pont/specialist/pont08.html There is also a good map of Aberdeen in there somewhere, and I expect you will find the "other" Auchindaar (doir-dour-dear or whatever) Actually even those we all spell the same are often different from what we expect, and from what the modern name may be -eg: take a peek at Culcaboch on the edge of old Inverness on Pont 8, and then see if you can recognize it on a modern map - yep, but the spelling is certainly different Don't buy the biggest Pont 8 - it is huge and unnecessary. Ron