Thanks to Janine on the help with the Petries of Burray. I have already researched(though still adding !) my own families here in Perthshire and my husband's Gunn family of Watten the traditional way, using Libraries, SRO etc etc. Now my daughter-in-law whose family came from Orkney and Shetland would like to find out more about her roots and I feel I am "cheating" using the net! We have names, but not dates. Christina Ross Guthrie, born at HeatherHall, Burray m James John Anderson in Kirkwall on the 28th May 1912 Christina was the dtr of Thomas Guthrie b Swannes Burray and Ann Thomson Petrie. Ann Thomson Petrie was b Cellardyke Burray dtr of Christina Bruce and James Bruce, Burray We have visited Orkney and had a most enjoyable holiday at Dounby Kay -