> -----Original Message----- > From: MerideeCM@aol.com [mailto:MerideeCM@aol.com] I > am > willing to do US census lookups for anyone - if you have a few it doesn't > make > sense to pay the fee. > > Meridith Scott Keyes > Everett, Washington - USA I will also do US census lookups for someone if you don't need enough to make it worthwhile for you to get a subscription to Ancestry.com. Holly East Bangor, PA

Hi Holly, May I take advantage of your generous offer please? This is a copy of a message I put on the MS board but without any response: "I am trying to trace George McGREGOR, the son of Donald McGREGOR and Margaret COCKER, b 8 March 1854, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. There is no trace of him on-line in the IGI 1881 British census but there is a record in the 1880 census for Pittsfield, Berkshire MA that looks promising. I would be grateful for any follow up that might prove or disprove this link." If it is not stretching hospitality too far, I have also been trying, without success, to get a lead for a friend on a Gomer DAVIES who left for the US in 1912 with all his money apparently, leaving his wife (the friend's grandmother) and four children alone in the UK. I have traced him on the Ellis Island site but haven't been able to get a lead in a US census. There was one person of the same name but he was before Gomer's arrival in the US. This Gomer DAVIES arrived on the "Baltic" April 6 1912 when he was age 40. He was born in Aberdare, South Wales. Many thanks, Peter South Wales [Scanned by Norton AntiVirus] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mert & Holly Kilpatrick" <kilpatrk@epix.net> To: <MORAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:18 PM Subject: RE: [MORAY] Ancestry vs. Scotlands People > > -----Original Message----- > > From: MerideeCM@aol.com [mailto:MerideeCM@aol.com] > I > > am > > willing to do US census lookups for anyone - if you have a few it doesn't > > make > > sense to pay the fee. > > > > Meridith Scott Keyes > > Everett, Washington - USA > > I will also do US census lookups for someone if you don't need enough to > make it worthwhile for you to get a subscription to Ancestry.com. > > Holly > East Bangor, PA > > ______________________________

Peter, There are 8 George Mcgregor's born in Scotland in the US in 1880 (at least with that spelling). The only one near your birthdate is the one in Pittsfield. Looks like living in a 4-family dwelling, with wife Harriett and son Roy, age 3. Works in a woolen mill. He is born in Scotland and both his parents also, Harriett and her parents born New York. Most everyone on that page works in the woolen mill. I could send you a printout of the page if you give me your snail mail address. But then a quick search does not turn them up in the next censuses. I will look some more after work. It seems unlikely that all of them died... I see someone who looks like your Gomer Davies in Baltimore, MD in 1920 and 1930, I don't have time to look at the details now, but I will later. Holly > -----Original Message----- > From: gregowen [mailto:gregowen@ntlworld.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:24 AM > To: MORAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MORAY] Ancestry vs. Scotlands People > > Hi Holly, > > May I take advantage of your generous offer please? This is a copy of a > message I put on the MS board but without any response: > > "I am trying to trace George McGREGOR, the son of Donald McGREGOR and > Margaret COCKER, b 8 March 1854, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. > > There is no trace of him on-line in the IGI 1881 British census but there > is > a record in the 1880 census for Pittsfield, Berkshire MA that looks > promising. I would be grateful for any follow up that might prove or > disprove this link." > > If it is not stretching hospitality too far, I have also been trying, > without success, to get a lead for a friend on a Gomer DAVIES who left for > the US in 1912 with all his money apparently, leaving his wife (the > friend's > grandmother) and four children alone in the UK. I have traced him on the > Ellis Island site but haven't been able to get a lead in a US census. > There > was one person of the same name but he was before Gomer's arrival in the > US. > This Gomer DAVIES arrived on the "Baltic" April 6 1912 when he was age > 40. > He was born in Aberdare, South Wales. > > Many thanks, > > Peter > South Wales > [Scanned by Norton AntiVirus] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mert & Holly Kilpatrick" <kilpatrk@epix.net> > To: <MORAY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:18 PM > Subject: RE: [MORAY] Ancestry vs. Scotlands People > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: MerideeCM@aol.com [mailto:MerideeCM@aol.com] > > I > > > am > > > willing to do US census lookups for anyone - if you have a few it > doesn't > > > make > > > sense to pay the fee. > > > > > > Meridith Scott Keyes > > > Everett, Washington - USA > > > > I will also do US census lookups for someone if you don't need enough to > > make it worthwhile for you to get a subscription to Ancestry.com. > > > > Holly > > East Bangor, PA > > > > ______________________________ > > > > ==== 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 Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx