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Birth Marriage & death records at Durham Records Online

Hi all, Just a quick note to let you know that there are BMD records for a vast contingent of Douglases in the Durham/Northumberland area,…

Started by Ronald Drysdale

0 Jan 3

Douglases in Cockpen - 18th century and before

Here's some of what I have on the Cockpen Duglass/Douglas people. At William's suggestion I'm putting this in a 'discussion' as there may b…

Started by Jenny Blain

34 Dec 26, 2025
Reply by Don McArthur

Morton - links to Douglas

My paternal line Morton has always regarded itself as of the Douglas clan. As a consequence through my years I have acquired my father's Do…

Started by Bruce Stewart Morton

16 Dec 24, 2025
Reply by Ronald Drysdale

Bad hyper-links on Douglas Archives

Sometimes when a link is posted, ning automatically adds some garbage to the end of the hyper-link address and this corrupts the link - for…

Started by Ronald Drysdale

1 Nov 14, 2025
Reply by William Douglas

A Tribute to Reverend Jack Douglas, C.P. The Man Who Gave My Family Its Past

Today I would like to pay tribute to Reverend Jack Douglas, C.P. Author of my family’s Douglas history page. "I am a Roman Catholic priest…

Started by Nicole Henderson

0 Oct 17, 2025

The Ancestry money grabbers are after our records!

ScotlandsPeople is under attack from Ancestry - if they succeed then access to Scottish records may become too difficult/expensive for us l…

Started by Ronald Drysdale

1 Sep 25, 2025
Reply by William Douglas

DNA

I can’t call this post DNA progress, as this has beeen limited. originally I took DNA test at Ancestry, I also uploaded to My Heritage, Ge…

Started by Bob Douglas

13 Sep 22, 2025
Reply by Mark Stephen Elliott

Old maps of the British Isles - 1631

The theatre of the empire of Great Britain, presenting an exact geography of England, Scotland, Ireland, etc. ... 1631 A very nice publicat…

Started by Ronald Drysdale

1 Sep 16, 2025
Reply by Nicole Henderson

Douglas family of Dallas and Elgin, Moray, Scotland

My Douglas of Moray ancestors that I have confirmed records for began with Robert Douglas (c1702-1767, lived at Ardoch of Dallas) and Jean…

Started by Lorelle Brown

1 Sep 12, 2025
Reply by Ronald Drysdale

James Douglas, 7th of Drumlanrig

Hi. has anyone ever had the 1581 Will & testament of Sir James Douglas, 7th of Drumlanrig transcribed? He apparently fathered a lot of…

Started by Ronald Drysdale

7 Jun 29, 2025
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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