Hi Terry, I thought my experience might be useful to you You have to order the films of the parish records and examine these records - putting the McIntoshes into family units based on different farms which will be named in the parish records. Then there will be the witnesses (or godparents) and although at different farms, these will be most likely brothers, cousins of the father or mother of the child. I have been doing this with other parishes, not Alvie. If you were to order the film, I might ask you to look out for someone for me, so my advice is not completely disinterested! Girzel can be rendered as 'Grace' and I have wondered also whether Girzel could transform into Janet. Good luck, Jane 18th cent Macgillivray OPRs Strathnairn http://www.mygale.org/~ancestor/dunlichity/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: TJMaco@aol.com <TJMaco@aol.com> To: SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com <SCOTLAND-GENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday 25 September 1999 04:20 Subject: McIntosh > Hi List, > > Is anyone out there doing research on the McIntosh surname,in >the Badenoch area.I'm finding my McIntosh's in the Alvie Parish.Alexander >McIntosh married in Alvie Parish to Girsell MacLean.than his children were >baptized at the same Parish.In the OPR I found a possible birth date for >Alexander and it gave Parent's names.What are the chances that I have a >connection.His birthdate would be around 1737 to John and Jean McIntosh.At >the Alvie Parish.Is anyone doing McIntosh researchin this area. > > Thanks, > > Terry McIntosh >