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love trying to find my ancesters

 help if you are able to . please acknowledge . my enthusiasm . getting long in the tooth .  do not need sarcasmn   just help each other ignore what others do just get on with it all, enjoy what you can do while you can do this searching. age  catches up very fast. not being funny just doing what I love 

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Permalink Reply by Allan Laird on July 10, 2014 at 14:17

I am trying to find the family of my Great Grandfather Dugald Drysdale. He was born about 1854 in Scotland, possibly Glasgow or on the Isle of Islay. He is thought to have a brother (Neil) and maybe a sister (Catherine), but don't know for sure. He ended up in Australia but had spent some time in India either as a soldier or a sailor. I have conflicting stories and they are making the task hard. Parents names are thought to be James and Ann. I am not letting oput to much information as I don't want to steer any one in the wrong direction. May be you can get me pointed in the right direction. Thanks
Allan

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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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