Hi Everyone I would like to thank everyone for their help with my query a couple of days ago. I would like to take this time to tell you all that I am finding your posting inviting to read, a very friendly group I might add!! I started extracting the Scottish records for Sutherland and havent even got thru the "A" yet....lol but your Angus McDonald is there with parents Hugh and Catherine McDonald christened June 27 1824, but you probably already know that. I do have the 1881 census on cd from the lds if anyone wants lookups I will gladly help out! Does anyone know where I would find cemetery listings for the Orkney Islands?? more specifically South Ronaldsay, it seems that is where my McDonald clan ended up (there and Canada) after they left Sutherland. Also...one more question ..it is about photographs taken in Scotland, old ones...is there a way of dating these?? Here in Canada we have a photographer book and if we look up the photographers name it tells us an era....like 1867-1870 that he was taking photographs in that area I was wondering if the same would be for Scottish pictures Cathy