As I am now winding down my family history research business, I will only take on work relating to Orkney or the north Highlands, with research from autumn 2023. This website will remain for the next year or so while I decide how to continue to make available some of the resources. My aim is | more…
Exactly five years ago, on 9 January 2018, I published my first blog for the #52 Ancestors Challenge. It was entitled John Flett you’re to blame! Now it’s time for an update. If you don’t want to read the earlier blog here’s a brief summary: great great-uncle John Flett (born 1862) immigrated to Australia from | more…
The population of North Walls and Brims in the 1861 Census was 597; by 1911 it was 401. To try and get behind what was happening, I’m starting to look at children born there in 1835, 1845, 1855 and 1865. Were they migrants? Where did they die? I know that this approach is far from | more…
