Karen OK then, what are your connections Regards Derek >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Nisbet + Bathgate >Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:11:16 -0500 > >Hi, >I have Cockburn and Yule in my lines also. Let's compare notes. >Karen Stone >[email protected] > >On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:41:40 +0000 "Derek Weir" <[email protected]> >writes: > > Roger > > > > Very interested in your Nisbet, Weir and Cockburn Lineages. > > > > I have a Alison Nisbet marrying a James Weir from around 1820's > > Haddington > > or Garvald, > > > > Isabella Nisbet marrying a James Yule in Hutton, berwickshire 1813. > > > > David Cockburn marrying a Isobel Wood around 1810's Coldingham and > > Helen > > Cockburn marrying James Yule in Coldingham, Berwickshire around > > 1840's. > > > > Sorry these dates aren't accurate as My notes are elsewhere. > > do these people appear in your lineage. If your Weir's are from East > > Lothian > > what is there lineage, it could help to identify my next step, even > > though > > they are not related to my lot. > > > > > > > > > > > > >From: "Roger White" <[email protected]> > > >Reply-To: [email protected] > > >To: [email protected] > > >Subject: Re: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Nisbet + Bathgate > > >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:47:03 -0000 > > > > > >Jill, > > > > > >I don't know whether you can help with my Nisbet, from your line. I > > am > > >trying to find parents and a marriage for Beatrix Nisbet, born abt > > 1695 in > > >?Garvald. She married a John Bathgate, born about 1691 possibly > > Aberlady or > > >Yester around 1717. I have not been able to locate information on > > either. I > > >have tried to apply the naming pattern to this family, and whilst > > it would > > >appear to work for Beatrix, it doesn't follow for John. Their > > children to > > >date are Andrew 1717, William (1)1718, Alison 1721, Nicholas 1723, > > >Catherine > > >1725, John 1727, Beatrix 1730, William (2)1732, James 1735 and > > Robert 1739. > > >If you can throw any light on this family, I would be very > > grateful. > > > > > >Roger White, > > >Researching: Bathgate, Jeffrey, Nisbet, Hardie, Armstrong, Steil, > > Brown, > > >Easton, Roger, Hymers, Houston, Hogarth, Reid, Weir, Hay, Dobson, > > Henderson > > >and Cockburn. > > > > > > > > > > > >==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > > >Join the Lothians Family History Society! Visit their homepage by > > pointing > > >your web browser to http://www.btinternet.com/~mmgene/lfhs/ > > > > > >============================== > > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > records, > > >go to: > > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > > The Rootsweb/Ancestry.com message boards for East Lothian are > > gatewayed to this list. When you read a post here you may wish to > > respond on the boards in the event the author of the post is not > > subscribed. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > >==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== >Be sure to check in surrounding counties for ancestors too! Subscribe to >the Midlothian-L or D by sending the word subscribe to >[email protected] OR [email protected] > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wait (aka Watt), Forrest, Cleland, Barclay Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XeC.2ACI/892.2 Message Board Post: Children of James Wait and Janet Barcly (Barclay, Barkly, Barcley) (1) Alison Wait: (b 20 April 1792 to James Wait and Janet Barcly) An Alison Wait married John T. Thomson in Haddington 30 May 1819. Children: If this was indeed "my" Alison Thomson, children were: Janet, b. 27 March 1822 James, b. 15 April 1824 George, b. 21 July 1826 Agnes, c. 15 July 1828 John, b. 18 May 1830 Grace, b. 17 August 1832 In the 1851 census, Susan Thomson, age 10, is a boarder with Grace Wait(my great great grandmother) in North Berwick.(713, Enumeration District 2, page 12). This would make sense if Alison Wait Thomson died in 1842 as noted above. The informant in Grace Wait's death in 1870 is Susan Thomson, niece. There is an Alison Wait (Mrs. John Th???) who died July 1842 and is buried in St. Mary's Parish Churchyard. Sam Wait

Hi, I have Cockburn and Yule in my lines also. Let's compare notes. Karen Stone [email protected] On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:41:40 +0000 "Derek Weir" <[email protected]> writes: > Roger > > Very interested in your Nisbet, Weir and Cockburn Lineages. > > I have a Alison Nisbet marrying a James Weir from around 1820's > Haddington > or Garvald, > > Isabella Nisbet marrying a James Yule in Hutton, berwickshire 1813. > > David Cockburn marrying a Isobel Wood around 1810's Coldingham and > Helen > Cockburn marrying James Yule in Coldingham, Berwickshire around > 1840's. > > Sorry these dates aren't accurate as My notes are elsewhere. > do these people appear in your lineage. If your Weir's are from East > Lothian > what is there lineage, it could help to identify my next step, even > though > they are not related to my lot. > > > > > > >From: "Roger White" <[email protected]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Nisbet + Bathgate > >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:47:03 -0000 > > > >Jill, > > > >I don't know whether you can help with my Nisbet, from your line. I > am > >trying to find parents and a marriage for Beatrix Nisbet, born abt > 1695 in > >?Garvald. She married a John Bathgate, born about 1691 possibly > Aberlady or > >Yester around 1717. I have not been able to locate information on > either. I > >have tried to apply the naming pattern to this family, and whilst > it would > >appear to work for Beatrix, it doesn't follow for John. Their > children to > >date are Andrew 1717, William (1)1718, Alison 1721, Nicholas 1723, > >Catherine > >1725, John 1727, Beatrix 1730, William (2)1732, James 1735 and > Robert 1739. > >If you can throw any light on this family, I would be very > grateful. > > > >Roger White, > >Researching: Bathgate, Jeffrey, Nisbet, Hardie, Armstrong, Steil, > Brown, > >Easton, Roger, Hymers, Houston, Hogarth, Reid, Weir, Hay, Dobson, > Henderson > >and Cockburn. > > > > > > > >==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > >Join the Lothians Family History Society! Visit their homepage by > pointing > >your web browser to http://www.btinternet.com/~mmgene/lfhs/ > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > >go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > The Rootsweb/Ancestry.com message boards for East Lothian are > gatewayed to this list. When you read a post here you may wish to > respond on the boards in the event the author of the post is not > subscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hello, I have the above names for East Lothian. My earliest WIGHT line begins in Surrey and goes to Ormiston, East Lothian and finally to MO and AR. My MAC CONOCHIE line goes to Va and KY. I have more info and would like to make a contact with those rearching any of these names. Karen Stone

Hi Roger, I have parents of my John WIGHT as Thomas WIGHT ( born abt.1520) and Janet COCKBURN. Janet COCKBURN's father was John COCKBURN. Is this your family? I know it goes back a looooong way. Karen Stone On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:47:03 -0000 "Roger White" <[email protected]> writes: > Jill, > > I don't know whether you can help with my Nisbet, from your line. I > am > trying to find parents and a marriage for Beatrix Nisbet, born abt > 1695 in > ?Garvald. She married a John Bathgate, born about 1691 possibly > Aberlady or > Yester around 1717. I have not been able to locate information on > either. I > have tried to apply the naming pattern to this family, and whilst it > would > appear to work for Beatrix, it doesn't follow for John. Their > children to > date are Andrew 1717, William (1)1718, Alison 1721, Nicholas 1723, > Catherine > 1725, John 1727, Beatrix 1730, William (2)1732, James 1735 and > Robert 1739. > If you can throw any light on this family, I would be very grateful. > > Roger White, > Researching: Bathgate, Jeffrey, Nisbet, Hardie, Armstrong, Steil, > Brown, > Easton, Roger, Hymers, Houston, Hogarth, Reid, Weir, Hay, Dobson, > Henderson > and Cockburn. > > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > Join the Lothians Family History Society! Visit their homepage by > pointing your web browser to http://www.btinternet.com/~mmgene/lfhs/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I.note that you have JEFFREYamong your names of interest. Are they from East Lothian or surrounding areas. ? Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger White" <[email protected]> > > Roger White, > Researching: Bathgate, Jeffrey, Nisbet, Hardie, Armstrong, Steil, Brown, > Easton, Roger, Hymers, Houston, Hogarth, Reid, Weir, Hay, Dobson, Henderson > and Cockburn.

Roger Very interested in your Nisbet, Weir and Cockburn Lineages. I have a Alison Nisbet marrying a James Weir from around 1820's Haddington or Garvald, Isabella Nisbet marrying a James Yule in Hutton, berwickshire 1813. David Cockburn marrying a Isobel Wood around 1810's Coldingham and Helen Cockburn marrying James Yule in Coldingham, Berwickshire around 1840's. Sorry these dates aren't accurate as My notes are elsewhere. do these people appear in your lineage. If your Weir's are from East Lothian what is there lineage, it could help to identify my next step, even though they are not related to my lot. >From: "Roger White" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Nisbet + Bathgate >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:47:03 -0000 > >Jill, > >I don't know whether you can help with my Nisbet, from your line. I am >trying to find parents and a marriage for Beatrix Nisbet, born abt 1695 in >?Garvald. She married a John Bathgate, born about 1691 possibly Aberlady or >Yester around 1717. I have not been able to locate information on either. I >have tried to apply the naming pattern to this family, and whilst it would >appear to work for Beatrix, it doesn't follow for John. Their children to >date are Andrew 1717, William (1)1718, Alison 1721, Nicholas 1723, >Catherine >1725, John 1727, Beatrix 1730, William (2)1732, James 1735 and Robert 1739. >If you can throw any light on this family, I would be very grateful. > >Roger White, >Researching: Bathgate, Jeffrey, Nisbet, Hardie, Armstrong, Steil, Brown, >Easton, Roger, Hymers, Houston, Hogarth, Reid, Weir, Hay, Dobson, Henderson >and Cockburn. > > > >==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== >Join the Lothians Family History Society! Visit their homepage by pointing >your web browser to http://www.btinternet.com/~mmgene/lfhs/ > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XeC.2ACI/892.1 Message Board Post: Hi Carol. I have just recently become interested in tracing some of my family tree and at the moment I am tracing the Thomson line. The Thomsons on my side lived in the HARBOUR TERRACE in North Berwick. Just as a matter of interest are you related to the Thorburns who lived at 20 Victoria Road? Bob Millar

Hello List: I know these names are not exactly ELN surnames, but my family did live in ELN for a few years :) My research interest in East Lothian is the family of George Mowat and Jane/Jean Sutherland who lived in Haddingtonshire from c. 1854 to c.1891, to the best of my knowledge. Details: George Mowat, b. 21 Oct 1822 in Mey, Canisbay, CAI > Canada c. 1891 Jane Sutherland, b. 11 Oct. 1824? in Castletown, Olrig, CAI > Canada c. 1891 Married 26 May, 1845, in Castletown, Olrig, CAI CHILDREN: Ann/Annie Mowat, b. c.1846 in Olrig, CAI >married William ANDERSON of Edinburgh> Canada c.1885 Henry Mowat, b. c.1849 in Olrig, CAI > Canada pre 1877 George Mowat b. 22 Feb. 1852, Olrig, CAI > England > Canada pre 1891 Barbara Mowat, b. c.Oct. 1854 in Haddington, Haddingtonshire, ELN > Canada pre 1877 James Mowat b. 26 Sept. 1857 in Dirleton, ELN > Canada pre 1881 Robert Mowat b. 21 Aug. 1859 at Dirleton, ELN > Canada pre 1881 Jane Mowat b. 07 Mar. 1862 at Haddington, Haddingtonshire, ELN. David Mowat b. 15 Sept. 1865 at Aberlady, ELN. I have no idea what became of Jane and David and have been unable to trace an immigration for either. I appear to have hit a bit of a brick wall. Any help will be appreciated. I do know, per the 1881 Census, that Jane was a "confectioner" in Haddington. Sorry about the sketchy dates above, but they are the best I have been able to find from a variety of records. Good hunting all, Marilyn

Jill, I don't know whether you can help with my Nisbet, from your line. I am trying to find parents and a marriage for Beatrix Nisbet, born abt 1695 in ?Garvald. She married a John Bathgate, born about 1691 possibly Aberlady or Yester around 1717. I have not been able to locate information on either. I have tried to apply the naming pattern to this family, and whilst it would appear to work for Beatrix, it doesn't follow for John. Their children to date are Andrew 1717, William (1)1718, Alison 1721, Nicholas 1723, Catherine 1725, John 1727, Beatrix 1730, William (2)1732, James 1735 and Robert 1739. If you can throw any light on this family, I would be very grateful. Roger White, Researching: Bathgate, Jeffrey, Nisbet, Hardie, Armstrong, Steil, Brown, Easton, Roger, Hymers, Houston, Hogarth, Reid, Weir, Hay, Dobson, Henderson and Cockburn.

Hi, Try unsubscribing first then resubscribing with your new address. Hope this helps. Karen (not the list owner, just a member) On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:46:23 -0700 "Heather Cameron" <[email protected]> writes: > I have tried on two occasions to change by e-mail address. So I will > try again. Please change my address to: [email protected] > Thks very much. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 2:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Admin. post > > > As of 23/02/02 there are 94 subscribers to SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN-L and 49 > subscribers to SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN-D. (The list was begun just last > autumn!) > > Welcome to those of you who have just recently subscribed. I hope > you'll > find some good information passed along via this list, and perhaps a > distant > cousin or two. If you haven't posted your interests yet, or haven't > done so > in awhile, pleases be sure to share them with us. > > You can search the archives of SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN by going to > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=SCT-EAST-LOTH IAN > > > Jill Clark > listowner, SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN > researching COWE, BORTHWICK, LAMOND, HARKES, RATTRAY, NISBET, > JENKINSON, > SANDERSON, BURNS, GRIEVE, GIBSON, BROWN > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > This week in East Lothian: you can read the East Lothian Courier > online at http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > The Rootsweb/Ancestry.com message boards for East Lothian are > gatewayed to this list. When you read a post here you may wish to > respond on the boards in the event the author of the post is not > subscribed. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hello I am new to the list. Does anyone know of a family of Drummonds in N Berwick Haddington In 1881 James Drummond age 37 a printer was living at 23 Quality Street, Back Tenement, First floor with his wife Christine age 36 b Perth and his children, Robert b Perth 1867, Henrietta age 9 b N Berwick, Elen age 6 b N Berwick and Christina age 3 b N Berwick. In 1891 Christina was a widow living in Fernbank, School Row age 45 and now a Bookseller, Stationer and Printer. Henrietta, 19 was a Booksellers dtr as was Helen age 16 while Christina age 13 was a scholar By 1901 the family were in St Margaret's Road, Cromliex (?) Christina Drummonf was then letting apartments, Henrietta was housekeeper and organist, Helen was Assistant Sec Mission for Lepers, Edinburgh, while Christina was a mother's help. If anyone has EASY access to the 1871 census for N Berwick and could do a look up for me I would be delighted to return the favour here in Perthshire (James Drummond and Christina Cameron were married in Perth 1866 and had left Perth by 1871, although James had been born in Haddington) Kay

I have tried on two occasions to change by e-mail address. So I will try again. Please change my address to: [email protected] Thks very much. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Admin. post As of 23/02/02 there are 94 subscribers to SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN-L and 49 subscribers to SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN-D. (The list was begun just last autumn!) Welcome to those of you who have just recently subscribed. I hope you'll find some good information passed along via this list, and perhaps a distant cousin or two. If you haven't posted your interests yet, or haven't done so in awhile, pleases be sure to share them with us. You can search the archives of SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN by going to http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Jill Clark listowner, SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN researching COWE, BORTHWICK, LAMOND, HARKES, RATTRAY, NISBET, JENKINSON, SANDERSON, BURNS, GRIEVE, GIBSON, BROWN ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== This week in East Lothian: you can read the East Lothian Courier online at http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi Therese, Just wanted to mention that my g. grand uncle called his property in the western district of Victoria "Garvald Vale" - they must have really liked that area of Scotland. Ruth. Subject: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Garvald Grange > Hello list, > > My gggrandparents, who imigrated from Garvald and Haddington in 1854 named their property in Australia "The Grange". On maps old and new of Garvald there is an area just outside the town called either The Grange or Garvald Grange. > > Would someone be able to tell me what this area what it might be? > > Thanking you in advance > Therese Galanakis > Kythera > Greece. > > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > This week in East Lothian: you can read the East Lothian Courier online at http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi Ruth, As the saying goes "there is no place like home". Therese ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chancellors" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 1:16 AM Subject: Re: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Garvald Grange > Hi Therese, Just wanted to mention that my g. grand uncle called his > property in the western district of Victoria "Garvald Vale" - they > must have really liked that area of Scotland. Ruth. > > > Subject: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] Garvald Grange > > > > Hello list, > > > > My gggrandparents, who imigrated from Garvald and Haddington in 1854 > named their property in Australia "The Grange". On maps old and new > of Garvald there is an area just outside the town called either The > Grange or Garvald Grange. > > > > Would someone be able to tell me what this area what it might be? > > > > Thanking you in advance > > Therese Galanakis > > Kythera > > Greece. > > > > > > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > > This week in East Lothian: you can read the East Lothian Courier > online at http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/ > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN Mailing List ==== > Join the Lothians Family History Society! Visit their homepage by pointing your web browser to http://www.btinternet.com/~mmgene/lfhs/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

>The late Francis Paxton was a Member of Committee, and >an ardent Fancier. It is hope that under the circumstances the scheme will >be extensively supported. If he was an ardent fancier then she was probably better off without him!! <G> Beryl O'Gorman Greensborough Victoria Australia What's your story? Wordweavers Weaving your memories Weaving your stories http://www.wordweavers.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Brookes" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:03 AM Subject: [SCT-EAST-LOTHIAN] a hundred and eleven years late ! > Hi List, > > > I happily became the new guardian of a book that has been part of the family > since 1889 entitled : The National Burns, printed to help celebrate the

Hello list, My gggrandparents, who imigrated from Garvald and Haddington in 1854 named their property in Australia "The Grange". On maps old and new of Garvald there is an area just outside the town called either The Grange or Garvald Grange. Would someone be able to tell me what this area what it might be? Thanking you in advance Therese Galanakis Kythera Greece.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Borthwick Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeC.2ACI/305.317.17.18.243 Message Board Post: Hi Brenda, I am looking for a Hugh Borthwick Sr. and his wife Marion (Thompson?) from Scotland in the mid-1800s, one of their sons was Richard Borthwick who emigrated to canada. If you have any of these people in your database I'd really appreciate any information. Thanks Julie

Hi List I have recently emptied my sent files, so I don't know who I replied to regarding Africa Farm, in East Lothian. I have since discovered that it is not a farm, but a actual house in Garvald itself. There can't be any street names in Garvald, as all the houses cary specific names. Africa is the name given to one of them, I hope this clears up you search. Regards Derek _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

Evening list I have considered purchasing OPR on microfilm/fische for a while now having spent only a limited time reading them in less than perfect conditions while in Haddington library during a short stay there two years ago ..... (we stayed in Haddington not the Library) ..... I found them fascinating. Buying the film is one hurdle, having a reader is another, having space for a reader is the stopper. Our local library permit the use of their machines but they are not usually open when I have the time. Question........... have any of you got a film or fische and a scanner ? Have you tried scanning the film into your computer and manipulated the image in a graphics package? Did it work? If no one has tried this could SKS try and let me know how you get on? I believe that there are attachments for flat bed scanners to copy from photograph negatives but the nature of the text/ paper contrast of the fische may allow the scanner to do its job without additional hardware. My scanner comes with TEXT recognition software which has coped reasonably well with old maps. ( just a thought ). Nothing ventured ! Regards George Wallace Searching connections with WALLACE and TAITT m 1659 Cockburnspath PATTERSONE m 1683 Cockburnspath FINDLAY m 1716 Innerwick/Dunbar REIDPATH m 1748 Bolton/Yester RENTON m 1777 Saltoun FERGUSON m 1809 Dirleton FORSYTH m 1842 Aberlady RUSSELL m 1867 Pencaitland (branch of main tree) McKay m 1873 Glasgow