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Would anyone be able to tell me if a William Grant dob.1784 and his wife Sarah Miller dob.1785, both born in Knockando, Morayshire, Scotland and married in 1811, plus their baby James Grant b. 1812 Bridge of Curr (Dulnain Bridge), Morayshire, Scotland went to Canada between James's birth in 1812 and their re-appearance in Grantown, Morayshire in 1819.  I have a 7 year gap and believe they may have left the country, but whether for England, Canada or Jamaica I don't know.  I have tried looking but, through ignorance of Canadian records, have fallen at the first.

Jenny.

I am having problems with some dates in an OPR entry.  Has anyone come across inaccuracies in block entries?  If a family moved away for 7 years and then returned home, would they have the baptisms of children christened while away then entered en masse into their home parish register and, if so, how accurate is the record likely to be and would one expect to find a "double entry" with another parish?  I had always assumed that block entries occurred when the family hadn't baptised any of the children yet and then did them as a job lot, but now I'm wondering.

Jenny

Anyone looking for info on the above, I have put what I have on the post J M Grant watercolourist,

Jenny

In the 1940s my grandmother glued all her family photographs into albums.  The only thing I can say in her defence is that there are hundreds of them so I suppose it would have taken ages to fiddle around with hinges.  I have looked at previous posts on this topic but none apply because she stuck them on both sides of the page.  In my youth I worked for archaeologists restoring pottery found on the digs, a 3D jigsaw.  Sometimes we took apart pots that had been previously, often decades earlier, glued together incorrectly or badly; and for this we used "aceton".  As this was in the Middle East, what we bought in the shop might not be what one would buy in this country as acetone.  Anyway, the aceton was amazing.  The glue just evaporated and the pot fell apart.  I was wondering if this might work on removing photos and, secondly, whether it would damage the photograph itself.

Jenny

I was wondering if anyone can advise me as to how to research 18thC Rothiemurchus.  I understand there are no parish records for the period and am at a loss as to how to proceed.

Jenny