Haggart/Christie, Missing Father

[Rosinish]

Carson,

No need to rush your research as we are only helping with advice & we all do what we can when we can afford it.

Later in your research (further back), you will be able to find plenty of leads on free sites for census records, births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, Monumental Inscriptions etc

www.familysearch.org & www.freecen.org.uk are the most used sites but they are only a lead as they don't give full info. which is on original docs. from SP.

Just glad we can welcome & help a newcomer 

Annie

[MonyAMickle]

Carson,

No need to rush your research as we are only helping with advice & we all do what we can when we can afford it.

Later in your research (further back), you will be able to find plenty of leads on free sites for census records, births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, Monumental Inscriptions etc

www.familysearch.org & www.freecen.org.uk are the most used sites but they are only a lead as they don't give full info. which is on original docs. from SP.

Just glad we can welcome & help a newcomer 

Annie

A warm welcome it has been!  These are also very helpful websites to know about, as I already have my mother's side of the family quite far back through multiple lines. This couple prove quite useful.

This website came highly recommended by a work collegue and friend and I have to say, it seems pretty lovely so far. 

[Forfarian]

It seems rather unusual that there is only one site selling Scottish certificates, I must say.

Where have you found genuine original certificates available from multiple sites?

[MonicaL]

Laura Beatrice Christie was b 1902 but neither in Moray, Aberdeen or Aberdeen City?

This would be downloadable from SP though for 6 credits at 23p each. 1 cred for the index & 5 creds for the download.

Hi All

mmm...think Laura was born c. 1921. There is a death in the Aberdeenshire area for a Laura Beatrice Christie/Haggart in 1999 with that approximate birth year.

Monica 

ADDED: There is a birth showing for a Laura Beatrice Christie in 1920 in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire.

[Rosinish]

Thanks Monica but a real coincidence.....namesake?

Annie

[MonyAMickle]

It seems rather unusual that there is only one site selling Scottish certificates, I must say.

Where have you found genuine original certificates available from multiple sites?

Fair point.

[MonyAMickle]

Laura Beatrice Christie was b 1902 but neither in Moray, Aberdeen or Aberdeen City?

This would be downloadable from SP though for 6 credits at 23p each. 1 cred for the index & 5 creds for the download.

Hi All

mmm...think Laura was born c. 1921. There is a death in the Aberdeenshire area for a Laura Beatrice Christie/Haggart in 1999 with that approximate birth year.

Monica 

ADDED: There is a birth showing for a Laura Beatrice Christie in 1920 in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire.

Thanks Monica. In fairness, I should have said. I don't have a death date for her but I know it was long before the 1990s.

[Rosinish]

Hi Carson,

As you said to Monica that Laura Beatrice definitely died before 1990's, I have done a death index search on surname Christie (soundex option) as it would include Christie/Christy etc. with only forename beginning Laura (which will bring up any with other middle names or initials) & also because women in Scotland are recorded on death by their maiden names as well as married/presumed marital surnames.

I used 1855 - 2014 (no need to narrow search years for index) as there were only 16 matches for same price as 1 name/year on index but may include other ancestor connections named Laura?

That index will give you a few to choose from but I am wondering how you know for sure that Monica's find is definitely wrong?

Sometimes things are presumed/misgivings & not always fact for one reason or another?

Annie

[MonyAMickle]

Hi Annie and Monica,

Apologies for both the time it's taken for me to respond and for my dismissal of your find.

My father was quite vehement before that Laura's death would have been before the 1990s but he has since recanted and it seems highly likely that she did - in fact - die around about that time, for reasons that are likely unimportant and somewhat anecdotal about the relation to other things happening at the time.
Again, apologies and many thanks. I'm currently waiting on a copy of my grandfather's birth certificate in the mail that will clarify for me that I am definitely hunting the right woman, before I continue but I'm gaining more and more confidence that this is the right one.

Carson