Hello Barb, I was checking my email at my cousin's house near Chicago (on my way to Wisconsin) and saw your posting. Actually, I've done a lot of work on our Orkney line, having been in Kirkwall and out to Sanday. I also extracted every FOTHERINGHAM(E), MUIR, SKEA/SKAE, TOWRIE/TOWERS, SMITH and several others from the Sanday OPRs. I'd be happy to send you a copy (but it's long). There is no good way, just from the OPRs to tell which Thomas F. is the correct person. I'm wondering how you know he was born in 1746? I've also looked at the kirk session records in the National Archives (Edinburgh), but got nowhere on this question. The OPR begins in 1735 and so there is not much to go on to push the line back further. However, there is a lot of under-utilized material in the Orkney Archives in Kirkwall and I'm hoping to get up there for a week the next time I'm in the U.K. (in 2006). The bigest grouping of records which may help is the Trail-Dennison papers. These are estate papers! of the owners of the land where our ancestors were tennants. I have an annotated index of them and could send you a copy for your perusal if you're interested. Among those documents are some tantalizing items that I am anxious to see, but only time (and working on them) will tell if they are of use. Since I'm on my cousin's computer, I don't have my family records at hand, but will be able to check more closely when I'm in the office in Wisconsin, where I'll have a computer on the desk hooked up to the 'net and my own laptop with all my stuff next to it. Hope all is well and I look forward to seeing if you get any worthwhile feedback from other readers on the Orkney list. By the way, are you a member of the Orkney FHS. They have a most interesting journal/newsletter. I've been a member since it began. All the best, Doug

Hi Doug, I saw the names you have been working on in Sanday. I'm just getting started researching my Grandmother, Jessie Drever Muir Born 21 June 1867 from Sanday. Do you think you list might be of some help to me, a beginner at this genealogy research? Albert ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Re: [Orkney] Back on List > Hello Barb, > > I was checking my email at my cousin's house near Chicago (on my way to Wisconsin) and saw your posting. Actually, I've done a lot of work on our Orkney line, having been in Kirkwall and out to Sanday. I also extracted every FOTHERINGHAM(E), MUIR, SKEA/SKAE, TOWRIE/TOWERS, SMITH and several others from the Sanday OPRs. I'd be happy to send you a copy (but it's long). There is no good way, just from the OPRs to tell which Thomas F. is the correct person. I'm wondering how you know he was born in 1746? I've also looked at the kirk session records in the National Archives (Edinburgh), but got nowhere on this question. The OPR begins in 1735 and so there is not much to go on to push the line back further. However, there is a lot of under-utilized material in the Orkney Archives in Kirkwall and I'm hoping to get up there for a week the next time I'm in the U.K. (in 2006). The bigest grouping of records which may help is the Trail-Dennison papers. These are estate papers! > of the owners of the land where our ancestors were tennants. I have an annotated index of them and could send you a copy for your perusal if you're interested. Among those documents are some tantalizing items that I am anxious to see, but only time (and working on them) will tell if they are of use. > > Since I'm on my cousin's computer, I don't have my family records at hand, but will be able to check more closely when I'm in the office in Wisconsin, where I'll have a computer on the desk hooked up to the 'net and my own laptop with all my stuff next to it. > > Hope all is well and I look forward to seeing if you get any worthwhile feedback from other readers on the Orkney list. By the way, are you a member of the Orkney FHS. They have a most interesting journal/newsletter. I've been a member since it began. > > All the best, > > Doug > > > ==== ORKNEY Mailing List ==== > >>>>TIP: To unsubscribe, send an e-mail message to: [email protected] In the body include only one word: unsubscribe > Use Orkney-D if you're receiving digests.<<<< > > ============================== > 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 > >