Hi All I agree with Bruce that it is better to try for the married women first, particularly since we are able to put in both the married and single names. I was looking for one of my female ancestors and put in Smith, her single name, and then Gillespie, her married name. Lo and behold up came a Mrs McMahon. She had remarried after her first husband's death and because her fist husband was named on the death Certificate I was able to find her. Ella Ross. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce McDowall" <Bruce_McDowall@huntsman.com> To: <SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: "John F. Scott" <jfscott@ufl.edu>; "Lynn Scott" <lts64@bellsouth.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [WIG LIST] Glasserton deaths 1900/ Drumoddie > > Hi Lynn, > > Here is a brief response to your query. Others may wish to expand. > > I share your concern about Scotlandspeople in that one can easily waste > money finding the wrong people. If you are using their service for finding > death registrations, it is better to go for married women first. They are > indexed under both their maiden and married names, so the probablility of > a > wrong hit is very low. Once you have found the wife, you should get data > which will give clues to narrow down the search for the husband. > > Not available online, but MIs, (monumental inscriptions), are often very > informative. If you join the D&GFHS: > http://www.dgfhs.org.uk/ > one of the member services is a lookup of your family name in their MI > record collection. The D&GFHS also has lots of booklets of MIs for sale. > Some mailing list subscribers have copies of MIs for selected kirkyards, > so > you can get lucky with a lookup request. One needs to be aware that people > were not always buried in the same parish in which they lived. Also, one > can find mention of a family member on a family tombstone, even though > that > person was not buried there. > > The census is taken every 10 years. The 1841 was the first one where names > were recorded. Because of the 100 year privacy rule, 1901 is the latest > available. Scotlandspeople is a good way to access the 1861, 1871, 1891 > and > 1901 census, but not so for the 1881. The 1881 data is only the same > transcribed data which you can get from the LDS on CD or fiche. The others > give you scanned images from the actual census books. You are probably > already aware that the 1841 census for all Wigtownshire parishes are > available at: > http://freecen.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl > and the 1851 at: > http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/HistoricalIndexes/census.aspx#search > Both are transcribed data. The former has been more thoroughly checked > prior to uploading. > > If you are looking for OPR records, i.e., the pre 1855 baptism and > marriage > registers of the Church of Scotland, they are available from > Scotlandspeople, but you can get the same records much cheaper though the > LDS. For Wigtownshire, you can also get lookups from these records. > There's > more about that on the Wigtownshire Pages, but there you will find I am > one > of the volunteers who do such lookups. A couple of things you need to keep > in mind with OPRs is that they are far from a complete record of all > baptisms and marriages, and that if there is no IGI record of a sought > event, it is very unlikely, (not impossible), that there will be a record > in the OPRs. > > Regards, > Bruce > __________________ > > > Hello again--I want to repeat how much I appreciate this site and the > people > I've already heard from. If I know that people were born in Glasserton in > the 1840s and probably died in the 1900s and are in the 1851 census, what > are some of the other resources on line that I might search to look for > deaths? Is there an 1861 census? 1871 etc? Is the scotlandspeople web > site the best resource? I find it somewhat difficult to use, as one must > pay before knowing if the information really pertains to the family one is > searching, especially with a common name like Scott! > > I'm still looking forward to hearing from people who may know more about > the > ownership of South Drumoddie and/or what life was like there. I have seen > that the 4 Drumoddie farms can be found on the UK ordnance mapping. > > Thanks again, > Lynn in Fla. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SCT-WIGTOWNSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message