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Inverness / Re: clan ian ruadh
« on: Tuesday 03 January 23 21:18 GMT (UK) »
I would love to reach back in time and snatch up the records from the late 1600s through 1746 as so much perished post Culloden. There is one stash of documents from GM that exist and are held tightly by the current Laird/Chief/?? Grant of GM and they are business documents related to the occupants of the GM with many going back to the 1600's.
Just by the titles of the documents that you can see (indexed at the library in Edinburgh), you can find people and relationships that are very informative. So far a couple of us have requested to see them, but receive a fairly stern "No" response from the owner even though we offer to pay the large $$$s to copy the same.
This is unfortunate as it could help many groups looking into their family roots, be they Grants, MacDonalds, Chisolms, Camerons, Frasers etc And as that there were so many GM Grant- MacDonald marriages, This could certainly help nail down so many of the family trees from that area.
maybe 20 years from now they will be available ??
Just by the titles of the documents that you can see (indexed at the library in Edinburgh), you can find people and relationships that are very informative. So far a couple of us have requested to see them, but receive a fairly stern "No" response from the owner even though we offer to pay the large $$$s to copy the same.
This is unfortunate as it could help many groups looking into their family roots, be they Grants, MacDonalds, Chisolms, Camerons, Frasers etc And as that there were so many GM Grant- MacDonald marriages, This could certainly help nail down so many of the family trees from that area.
maybe 20 years from now they will be available ??