While the Greenock Newspaper BMD Index is completely dependent on family having had the announcements put into the newspaper, like anything, you never know what little gem might help you along. Thanks to my Beith family putting in the death of Hamilton Beith, we were finally able to figure out what happened to him. He disappeared from Scotland after the 1851 census. He had emigrated to Valparaiso, Chile and died there, the rest of his siblings had stayed in Scotland or gone to the USA, some of his cousins ended up in England. Of course, I'm looking forward to the index being added to, so I check my other family surnames. Julie