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John's cousins and other relatives

May be a graphic of text that says "Johns Paternal Great Grandmother Johns Paternal Great Grandfather Johns Paternal Grandmother Johns Paternal Grandfather Johns JohnsMother Mother Johns Great Aunts Husband Johns Father Johns Great Aunt Johns Aunt Johns Aunts Husband Johns Great Aunt Uncles Childs Wife John Smith Bom 1964 Johns Great Aunt And Uncles Child Johns 1st Cousins Wife Johns 1st Cousin Johns 2nd Cousin Johns 1st Cousin Once Removed"

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Added by William Douglas on December 26, 2025 at 13:48 — No Comments

Gorrenberry

Redheugh-Larriston-Hartsgarth sasine to infefet 10 Elwald-Ellot chief Robert (English Wiki)

William Elwald (Elwand-Elwold-Elwood-Ellot) to pass 15th centuries lands of Archibald 'Bell the Cat' Douglas to 10th chief Robert Elwald family squire. Landholders Gledstanes, Scot, & Ker landholders involved land transfer with…

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Added by Mark Stephen Elliott on December 24, 2025 at 6:04 — No Comments

AI again!

What can happen if you turn the power of AI loose on traditional Scottish folk songs, Ballads, Poetry etc?

I had a few hours spare, so I thought I would experiment with an update/remix of the poem "The Lads of Wamphrey" by Walter Scott into rock ballad style music.

The AI I used was Suno, online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUTS2jHA3H0

Lads of Wamphray historical notes:

This…

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Added by Ronald Drysdale on December 23, 2025 at 14:30 — 2 Comments

"mark stephen elliott" DNA genealogy Google AI Mode 11/20/25

Today's image;

Added by Mark Stephen Elliott on December 20, 2025 at 15:54 — No Comments

Ai - a useful research tool or a future possible threat to traditional genealogy

Ai is advancing rapidly

Here is some incredible artwork from Kelly Boesch (Ai Art) - the music and video are wholly Ai generated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZExXLvI2Cs&list=RDMMYZExXLvI2Cs&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv9Dwo8x64U

However, apart from artwork, Ai may soon start…

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Added by Ronald Drysdale on December 10, 2025 at 14:30 — 1 Comment

Transfer of Mosshouse - but who held it?

Grant by way of transfer of mortgage by King James I to John of St Michael (Johann de Sanctomichaele) scutifer of rights in lands of Mosshouses (Moshous, Moshouse, Mosehous) within the barony of Melville (Malewing) within sherrifdom of Edinburgh which had been surrendered to king by reason of mortgage by Henry Douglas of Lugton (Henry de douglas…

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Added by William Douglas on December 6, 2025 at 21:30 — 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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