_http://www.curiousfox.com/history_S/perthshire_2.html_ (http://www.curiousfox.com/history_S/perthshire_2.html) surnames search for by parish _http://www.perthshire.co.uk/index.asp?lm=70_ (http://www.perthshire.co.uk/index.asp?lm=70) Blairgowrie Family history Society, not a member of the Association of Scottish Family History Societies.they don't have a website, but you will seldom find such help. They found living relatives, to meet on my next trip (you need to give them a couple weeks or longer). It is one of my favorite villages, due to it's charm. Some just have such a character! Not to miss the largest berry region, if you time your visit just right! _http://www.safhs.org.uk/SAFHS_Links.asp_ (http://www.safhs.org.uk/SAFHS_Links.asp) Association of Scottish Family History Societies links take you from one FHS to another. Sometimes a publication produced by one, helps in another, I have it as a fav, as "goodies" and news on projects in process change all the time. _http://www.ffhs.org.uk/_ (http://www.ffhs.org.uk/) federation of UK FHS. Sometimes going up, east or west helps,many societies carried the whole of Scotland not just a region. Books on trades, old pictures of villages, general help understanding how an ancestor lived, back in the day. I apologize for writing what sounds like a "newbie" email,but I found a book on Fergus from 1850, I could not find in Ontario or in Canada, sitting in the Aberdeen and North East FHS. Fergus is the sister city of Blairgowrie, because two barristers, sold their estates, and bought 6,000 acres in Ontario, and moved former tennants and themselves (over 300 Scots en masse) and hired craftsmen of all sort, and promised to build a mill,church and school, which they kept. Anyway the point is, even if most of your rellies lived in perthshire, a book in the Fife FHS, could have a book on watchmakers, or fishermen, the ordnance maps from the era of the 1841/1851 census. don't over look places like abertay historical society and the Scottish genealogical society. Look on the RCAHMS and Scran for old photos of places. I've found parish churches no longer with us. The Royal Commission on anceint and historical monuments of Scotland, you have to register, but there is no cost. SCRAN you can see thumbnails without a subscription, but it's worth the money about 25 pounds a year, to see all the museum's holdings and they are adding documents from archives. How does one find a schedule of common ridings, to plan for a vacation? When is the heather in bloom? Mary in Oregon _http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/301536_ (http://www.geograph.org.uk/p hoto/301536) there are many pictures on the web, as it's a B and B. Always do a global search, and hit images, and look for websites. images, video, web, news _http://www.geograph.org.uk/_ (http://www.geograph.org.uk/) this is a great website, new to me. Every one of us is on the same learning curve, so you can just keep growing! In a message dated 8/14/2010 7:40:16 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, montanaokie@gmail.com writes: One of the links that I have been having fun with is using http://www.vpike com/ and putting the census address in. Even after all these years, some addresses are still the same. I found the farm where my great grandmother was born and it is even still called Loanhead Farm. Yes, it is still the same place. I have a photo of the house and it matches the one that is currently there. Kathie In Montana ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message