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Offline Throth

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Donald McBeath from Blair Atholl 1806
« on: Tuesday 27 March 18 14:57 BST (UK) »
We are interested in contacting anyone researching the origins of Donald McBeath who emigrated to Canada in 1806, settled Marshfield, PEI, and married Elizabeth Scott.

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Re: Donald McBeath from Blair Atholl 1806
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 15:28 BST (UK) »

At the bottom of every RootsChat page in the brown section under "Your Tools" is a section "Surname Interests"  - you can search for anyone researching the same surname or add your own.

http://surname.rootschat.com/



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Re: Donald McBeath from Blair Atholl 1806
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 19:15 BST (UK) »
Thanks Sandra, but there is a small problem.

a) We keep the records for all of the Blair Atholl parish and our data-base has well over 20,000 individuals with about a hundred different family surnames, let alone the alias names which were also used as so many were Stewarts, Robertsons, McIntoshes, McGlashans etc.

b) Nobody involved with the borenich web-site is actually related to these people.  We just have a lot of data which is not available to you folks in Canada.

Our present project is data-matching for every individual in the parish from 1800 - 1854 when Civil Registration commenced (completed already for 1718 - 1799).  This means that we have every baptism and marriage linked to every settlement and can trace families as they move from place to place, generation after generation.  We have been linking this to the 1841 and 1851 census returns for the parish and will add parallel information from the Kirk Session minutes.  As a trial we started scanning the emigrant passenger lists to Canada to see if was possible to trace them back to the parish. 

A remarkably large number of MIs in Canada read "A native of Blair Athole", and their descendants are rightly proud of their roots.  We just aim to help them if possible.

Regards,
Throth
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