This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ross Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TeC.2ACE/1399.1 Message Board Post: Hi Marion, I wonder this - how can you be so very, very certain of the EXACT birth date – when you say you have never found his birth register? Here’s a few surrounding your date from Inverness from ScotlandsPeople: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ You searched for: Surname: "Ross"; Use Soundex: Off; Forename: "Alexander*"; Sex: "Both"; Year From: 1879; Year To: 1891; County: INVERNESS; No Year Surname Forename Sex District City/County/MR GROS Data 1 1879 ROSS ALEXANDER M PORTREE /INVERNESS 114/01 0045 2 1881 ROSS ALEXANDER M NORTH UIST /INVERNESS 113/00 0060 3 1881 ROSS ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0066 4 1881 ROSS ALEXANDER M GLENGARRY /INVERNESS 099/01 0013 5 1881 ROSS ALEXANDER M DUIRINISH /INVERNESS 110/00 0120 6 1882 ROSS ALEXANDER M PORTREE /INVERNESS 114/01 0075 7 1883 ROSS ALEXANDER M KILTARLITY /INVERNESS 101/00 0028 8 1883 ROSS ALEXANDER M KILMORACK /INVERNESS 100/00 0011 9 1884 ROSS ALEXANDER M DUIRINISH /INVERNESS 110/01 0012 10 1884 ROSS ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0408 11 1886 ROSS ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0393 12 1887 ROSS ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0063 13 1888 ROSS ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0094 14 1889 ROSS ALEXANDER M KILTARLITY /INVERNESS 101/00 0032 15 1889 ROSS ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0211 16 1891 ROSS ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0021 17 1891 ROSS ALEXANDER JAMES M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0124 18 1879 ROSS ALEXANDER MUNRO M KILMORACK /INVERNESS 100/00 0060 19 1890 ROSS ALEXANDER WILLI M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0129 20 1884 ROSS ALEXANDER YOUNG M ABERTARFF OR FORT AUGUSTUS /INVERNESS 092/02 0022 21 1888 ROSS ALEXANDERINA F INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0024 22 1891 ROSS ALEXANDERINA F STRATH /INVERNESS 119/00 0047 23 1891 ROSS JAMES ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0426 24 1882 ROSS JOHN ALEXANDER M INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0410 25 1883 ROSS JOHN ALEXANDER M DAVIOT AND DUNLICHITY /INVERNESS 095/00 0020 ** And further – same premise – how do you know “for sure” it was Inverness? ** Yours to ponder… In the mean time here are a few other ideas and a few places to look: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/articles/gen.htm Regards, LarryR