Why don't you subscribe to the Dumfries-Galloway forum on Rootsweb - there's some very helpful people there with detailed info on the area. Barbara McLean Murrieta, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrie Gulline" <carrie@gulline.freeserve.co.uk> To: <WGW-SURNAMES-SCOTLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: Any thoughts?!?! > Hi all > My Aunt was tracing a bit of my family tree (Gulline) back in the 1980's but she died before completion. I have copies of little bits of her work and after going through it all again I have picked out some points she mentions. > The Wigtown Free Press Newspapers records > The Galloway Gazette Newspapers records > "Tax Collection Lists for 1692 for Wigtownshire Hearth" > "Parish Lists of Wigtownshire 1684" > "Highways & Byways of Galloway" book (mentioned in 1880's letter so can't be the 1910 one I keep finding on the web) > "Surnames of Scotland" book by Dr George Fraser Black pub. 1946 > "Lands & Owners" Vol.2 > "History of Gallowat" by MacKenzie (2 volumes) > Old book printed in 1880 with some reference to Gulline's. > Sorry it is a bit obscure but has any ideas on where I can start with this list. > Thank you in advance > Carrie >