Good Luck Douglas, although you probably won't see this email until you return from your journey. I think this is a great idea to share success stories of our research in locating family. Is this something that is off topic to the list? I also have recently found family in Perthshire and am in close contact with them thanks to some wonderful people on the list. Jamie Lees Canada > Hello All > Well tomorrow my wife and I leave for Australia to visit our sons and their > families is Sydney who settled there earlier this year. > From my earliest confirmed family member David CLARK m Margaret TAYLOR in > Findogask,Perthshire, 18 July 1823 I have traced the "trek" to Newburgh,Fife > and Dundee.From there to South Africa and now Australia. > Stories of other family members have been passed down and I was,in April this > year, finally able to trace my g.grandfather's eldest brother's family in > Maitland,Australia. > The 1881 census shows my g.grandfather living at 30 Pennycook Lane,Dundee > while his brother,David is in Kent,England(no wonder I had difficulty finding > him).It is believed that it was some time before 1881 that the families last > saw each other although there was correspondence up to 1938. > Anyway we will be meeting and I believe both branches are looking forward to > it.I would like to thank the many members on the various lists who have helped > this event happen. > > Douglas J Clark > South Africa