I am always very grateful for the amazing help / information that people provide on this website. And always say so. Often.
The article referred to in the last reply posting might be 'tongue in cheek' but I find it rather upsetting and insulting. Often a request is made in good faith, and there is not very much information to hand. I said I would try to help a FH contact who lives in Canada. So I only have the information available that she has provided. It is only when I have tried every avenue on a particular FH problem, and failed, that I turn to Roots.web and know the people who respond are usually most helpful and generous, and I am very grateful. I am amazed at how knowledgable folk are, finding information that I have spent a long time searching for and failing.
I posted the previous query about William Wallace Douglas - and have been grateful for the replies I have received on that - but although he went to Trinidad, and his children were born there, he was originally in Scotland, as was his brother, and I don't think his brother did leave Scotland. WWD's children seemed to go backward and forward between Trinidad and GB. I certainly am not intending to duplicate work for others, but these are two separate queries.
I am intrigued by the finding of Miss Lillias Douglas being presented, so to speak, I thought it was an unusual first name, but maybe it wasn't for those times. Of course, Lillias who was my friend's grandmother, was the daughter of William Wallace Douglas not an Archibald, so I presume it is not the correct one. I am impressed and grateful for research undertaken.
Of course, what so often happens in families, is events or happenings get passed on down the generations, that are half-truths, or heresay, or start off as being related as 'it might have happened like this' and then reaches the present day as it being a fact of something really taking place. Sometimes there is a whiff or a hint of truth but a lot of make-believe in the story.
I am tenacious in trying to find information on family members and do not accept facts too readily until I have double-checked them and verified them if possible. I have been doing family history research, for my own family and helping others with their families, for over 20years, and refute the allegations, even if meant 'tongue in cheeck'.
