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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Shetland => Topic started by: suttontrust on Monday 23 August 04 19:38 BST (UK)
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An excellent site for Shetland genealogy is:
www.bayanne.info/shetland
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Really great site! Will keep going back to this one! Spent 'ages' just looking at the photos
Well done all who helped bring it to us!
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I set the site up, and maintain it as frequently as I can.
Thanks must go out to all have contributed information to me, so that it can be kept as accurate as possible.
Glad it has helped everyone out ;D
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A brilliant help I found part of my trail back to 1725!
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I set the site up, and maintain it as frequently as I can.
Thanks must go out to all have contributed information to me, so that it can be kept as accurate as possible.
Glad it has helped everyone out ;D
The bayanne site certainly has helped me the most with Shetland research. So nice to see the pictures of my family on it. It is a super site and just so helpful. One of the best sites around. Thanks and Merry Christmas to you T.
Lauraine (Smith) Syrnick
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I have just visted this site to trace some of my relly's and you have helped me find an amazing amount of information about my family in the Shetlands Thank you so much
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what a great site, i was going to ask about a marriage, but looked at this first and the whole tree is on there, it's great, thank you for posting it. :)
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Top marks to all the work done on this site thanks for bringing it to all to share just started my husbands family tree so it has been very helpful Harriet ;D
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Hi,
Just tried to use this site, but getting the following error message.
Error: TNG is not communicating with your database. Please check your database settings and try again.
Any ideas?
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Hi
Tony Gott's site seems to be down at the moment: I am getting the same message.
Hopefully he will see this & get back to us.
kind regards, Arranroots ;)
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great site, just found one of my relatives I have been looking for for ages, only dawned on me today to look at the top of the shetland bit for links duh I will recommend it to anybody
akc
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really good site would recomend it found a rellie i was looking for
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I recently discovered my Shetland rellys - thanks to SP's 1909 birth certificates! - and found bayanne's site. It is fantastic!
Well done! And thanks!
stuartroxy ;)
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Has anyone noticed this has been down for a few days?
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Fab site & Tony Gott is a hero to many like myself, for the work he has put and continues to put into the web site.
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Bayanne's site is brilliant and so very helpful
BUT in chatting he asked for information where Shetland/Fair Isle families have gone so there is a continuation of thr family trees away from Shetland - I was happy to send him my tree and its now fully incorporated
Brilliant - Thank you, so much information
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Bayanne is first class but you might consider the Shetland Family History Society,
www.shetland-fhs.org.uk
For an OAP it's £12 a year and includes their quarterly journal, "Coontin Kin!"
Bests,
Skoosh.
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I am doing a family tree for a friend whose maternal side are from Shetland Isles mostly Unst & Yell it is so confusing, I have a William Basil Manson b 1780 Yell, marrying Janet Scolley I found marriage details on Scotlands People but he was called William Basil Henry, on Bayanne's site his father is Magnus Henry where does Manson come from? I have come across quite a few people who do not share their father's name, and so many of them end in son which I know is quite common. Bayanne site is wonderful so much information.
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Once you get into the mid 18th century the surnames change each generation. Manson is son of Magnus.
Skoosh.
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Thank you. It has certainly made it more challenging but that can be a good thing, always new things to learn.
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Basil seems a bit novel ;D maybe after a minister/laird/ships-captain?
Bests,
Skoosh.
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I am doing a family tree for a friend whose maternal side are from Shetland Isles mostly Unst & Yell it is so confusing, I have a William Basil Manson b 1780 Yell, marrying Janet Scolley I found marriage details on Scotlands People but he was called William Basil Henry, on Bayanne's site his father is Magnus Henry where does Manson come from? I have come across quite a few people who do not share their father's name, and so many of them end in son which I know is quite common. Bayanne site is wonderful so much information.
The surname Manson is derived from Magnusson. Shetland retained the patronymic system to names much longer than mainsland Scotland, so William Basil, son of Magnus, makes absolute sense.
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Cazza, a Basil reference, the north Shetland isles kept their Norse customs longer. Catch the accents on the dialect map here!
https://www.shetlanddialect.org.uk/basil-r.-anderson
Bests,
Skoosh.
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Thank you, all very interesting, have never really thought much about the scottish islands before, now am keen to know more.
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You don't just get surnames ending in 'son' on Shetland there are also some which end in 'daughter'.
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Like in Scandinavia! ;D
Skoosh.