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November 2021 Blog Posts (2)

The tale of Elizabeth and Margaret Douglas

https://blog.historicenvironment.scot/2017/05/silenced-voices/?fbclid=IwAR0r34IayJRpRkDcRCzNRCY1Tna9OTkcYV_j-ynJX9V-DXGFUeLLPbTdl64 ;

blue sky above grey stone building with outer wall and tree in foreground with white blossom



Acknowledgement: Thank you to Dr Amy Blakeway, lecturer at the University of Kent and author of Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland, and Historic…

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Added by William Douglas on November 30, 2021 at 13:30 — No Comments

Researching about Rachel Douglas

This Little Tyke is in search of the ancestors of his Great Grandmother Rachel Douglas.

We believe Douglas to be her maiden name.

Rachel (Douglas) Braitling appears in 1880 Census at her Mother-in-Law's home with husband and sons in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, USA.

Of note, George, the eldest, was born in Philadelphia or NYC while…

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Added by GenTrax on November 1, 2021 at 21:17 — No Comments

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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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