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"Thank you Til now, I had confused this with Morton Parish Church, Thornhill Nothing…"

William Douglas replied Jan 21, 2020 to Morton - links to Douglas

16 Dec 24, 2025
Reply by Ronald Drysdale

"Handing down names from generation to generation makes keeping track hard - but some…"

William Douglas replied Jan 19, 2020 to Lord James Douglas, the Black Douglas

5 Jan 19, 2020
Reply by Eric Peter Douglas

"Well done!I was a bit slow in getting the answer to you!"

William Douglas replied Jan 17, 2020 to Lord James Douglas, the Black Douglas

5 Jan 19, 2020
Reply by Eric Peter Douglas

"Great stuff! "

William Douglas replied Jan 11, 2020 to Morton - links to Douglas

16 Dec 24, 2025
Reply by Ronald Drysdale

"Gavin Douglas (1474?—I522), Scottish poet and bishop, third son of Archibald, 5th ea…"

William Douglas replied Dec 10, 2019 to Douglas Dunkeld.

2 Dec 10, 2019
Reply by Paul Douglas

"James the Gross died at Abercorn, almost certainly of natural causes most probably c…"

William Douglas replied Oct 15, 2019 to How did they die?

2 Oct 15, 2019
Reply by Andrew Douglas

"If you look in Photos in this forum you will find three recent posts of census retur…"

William Douglas replied Aug 16, 2019 to Wife of William Wilson Douglas (1880 - 1923)

5 Aug 16, 2019
Reply by William Douglas

"Tom, I have further information on the family and am working on it at the moment, s…"

William Douglas replied Aug 16, 2019 to Wife of William Wilson Douglas (1880 - 1923)

5 Aug 16, 2019
Reply by William Douglas

"Not much help! "

William Douglas replied Jul 13, 2019 to Samuel Douglas(s) b.Scotland 1699 d.New Hampshire 1793 Searching for father

23 Apr 19, 2021
Reply by Ian Douglass

"Is this what you are looking for, Jackie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Herries…"

William Douglas replied May 26, 2019 to which Lord is he 5th or 6th ? Maxwell lord Herries son of married Lady Janet Douglas 1498 1537 and Robert Maxwell, 4th Lord Maxwell 1493–1546 BIRTH ABT 1493 • Kirkcudbright, Dumfries-shire, , Scot

1 May 26, 2019
Reply by William Douglas

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Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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