Dear Barb, I hope you don't mind me asking what years you are looking for with the ships lists. My Ironside family from Scotland traveled to NYC in 1886 and 1887 and I have no idea how many ships that would include but from what I've read I'm betting its more than a few. Ginny ----- Original Message ----- From: <Meille3@aol.com> To: <SCOTLAND-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [SCT~ROOTS] Scotland Census > Has anyone out there used the Scottish census? What info is included? I'd > be most > happy to pay a professional researcher for time, etc. if the listings include > enough in- > formation to be useful...i.e. name, spouse, children, address, age, etc. > I've been > trying to find siblings for my GG and GGF without much success - probably > because > the Gamble name in Ireland/Scotland seems to be as "fruitful" as Johnsons or > Swen- > sons in Minnesota. Any suggestions, information or references would be most > greatfully (underlined) appreciated!!!!! > I'm currently perusing the Castle Garden incoming ships for GGF and > family. Even though I've been able to limit the time period because of > birth of children (first > in Scotland, second in New York). it takes a tremendous amount of time to go > through 22 rolls of microfilm (and with my Irish luck, no matter how I > "attack" them, > the data will be in the last one!!). I'm (hopefully) planning a trip to > Scotland this fall, > but really don't want to spend all my time reading microfilm!! > Thanks for whatever help, suggestions, etc. offered!!! > Barb in MO > > > ==== SCOTLAND-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > The archives for the list are located here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/scotland-roots > and > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=scotland-roots > >