The LIBINDX is wonderful for people with ancestors from Moray!! Thanks to you to all!If you ahevn't yet had a look it is a must. Yes there are some discrepencies between info on the index and the IGI.I tend to think the LIBINDX most accurate as much of the information comes first hand from relatives who are putting in an obituary into the local newspaper. To children christened in different parishes. I have found agricultural labourers tended to follow the work and so moved frequently. One of my Frasers has a listing of over 15 addresses! I have also found the further back you go the less they tended to move out of the area they were born, in unless to emmigrate. But with the advent of the train they became far more adventurous ( and harder to track down to any specific area!!) So the trick is to always look in nearby parishes if they can't first be found. Karen Donald --- Susan McClure <smcclure@cox.net> wrote: > I want to thank Anne who on May 7th suggersted I go > to LIBINDX for information on my Falconer line. > Although I did not find the Falconers I wanted I did > find some other infromation on my Trye and McCulloch > lines. And amasing enough I found that the Ann Tyre > that married John McCulloch was from Edinkillie, a > parish that I had not examined Old Parish IGI > records from. > I also found that the marriage date differed from > the IGI Old Parish record date I had. I think the > LININDX date is most likely the correct one since > they ae using a different source. I will still need > to order the microfilms for the Edinkillie records > to go through them rather than just examine the > online fact. > > My questions would then be: > 1. Have people found the IGI extracts to sometimes > be incorrect? > 2. The various parishes my ancestors are from are > near each other, usually within 7 to 15 miles:. In > the Falconer instance, 3 cildren were christened in > New Spynie (about 1-2 miles north of Elgin), one in > Rafford,(about 4 miles south of Forres) and 3 in > Dyke (about 4 miles west of Forres). Did these > families tend to move around alot? Or would he > mother possibly been visiting relatives or something > when she had the child and it was christened in the > relatives's paish since the christening usually > occurred within 2-3 days of the birth? I guess for > some reason, I thought that people would tend to > saty in one place and possibly meet their spouses > in the same town especially in the era that there > were no cars. But I now realize that people were > fairly mobile in the 1700s and 1800s and I need to > expand my horizons to many of the other parishes > that I had been neglecting. Of course when one > finds a couple of Ann Tyre' and a couple of John > McCullochs in several parishes (and tha! > t is using the parish record microfilms-not just > the IGI online extracts) that are in the same time > span, it really > becomes confusing, especially when the mother is not > listed for a christening. I would appreciate any > comment others mikght have on christening locations. > Thank you all again for help you give. > Susan McClure > > > > > ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== > MORAY OPR's. The OPR's for the Moray area are now > starting to be transcribed and volunteers are > needed. Would anyone interested in transcribing the > OPR's for our area please contact me via my usual > email address or visit the Moray Rootsweb pages and > contact me via the mailing list Admin. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million > records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the > world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

It was not only the labourers who moved frequently.Most farmers in Scotland were tenants and they usually moved when their lease expired.The traditional lease was for 19 years but many were for less.When the lease was up it was everybody on the cairt and away they went, not very far usually, maybe into the next parish.In researching my family I found that every generation moved at least three times.Regards Harry in Agincourt.