oh ... but at least I should be able to have a 'hard copy' now ...
this is what its about.. actual 'STUFF' not uhm ......(saying nothing....
) brilliant I am blown away this week and most of it was instigated with a
Find your Grave additional bit of info..
thank you
xin
I know what you were going to say Xin! DNA....
One morning recently I had a bit of a breakthrough in Dundee when I was just perusing burial records which have been transcribed by the Friends of Dundee Archives. I found a child we never knew existed (born and died a year before her parents married) and then I looked more closely at others with the same surname. Several burials said where the deceased was born which led me to a parish I'd not looked at before. By lunchtime I'd found the elusive baptism of my ancestor under a most original spelling of his surname which I found at ScotlandsPeople by using "names that start with" for the surname. Descendants have been looking for him for decades! No wonder we'd never found it. AND it was nice to take a break from DNA.
It's provided some focus for the DNA searches and since then we think we've spotted DNA matches with a few of his siblings (previously we were only sure of one, whom we now know to be a half-sister). None of them are closer than 5th cousins but there's been some persistent strands of DNA handed down.
It's fortunate that your ancestor has a headstone recorded at St Michaels. The church was extended into the graveyard in the 1700s and several monuments were moved or lost. One of my ancestors doesn't have a monument there (she probably did originally) but her parents have one.
