« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 21 August 18 18:12 BST (UK) »
I echo all that has been said above. Additionally all those cyber pals and cyber cousins that have helped me in my quests and importantly the unseen, unknown people who have taken time to set up local websites describing their area and past communities.
Whilst I was reading all the previous postings, i suddenly had a thought about Ivy. I don't know her last name but it was her reading of teacups that gave me many, many clues to my past. Then for some obscure reason - Eureka -, what if the clue about the soldier wearing silver buttons and possibly a huzzars hat of; "he's now rodding his rifle", didn't mean his name was "Roderick"(Mckenzie) but my 16th-17th century ancestor "Rodulphi" Wells (of Huntingdonshire).
I need to get out my old notes again. -
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke