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At 16:47 on October 4, 2023, Russell Lynn Drysdale said…

  Wilma ,

So you're excited to learn where I got all these documents and how I am connected.  About 9 years of digging thru Dutch Archives - how I connect - I can only go back to 1748 but still looking - we have more Drysdales than we do records for Drysdale's.  Your grandmother Elenore comes from one of the longest lines I know of. The Miss Drysdale in the ''Children of Batavia'' article I am curios about her, and other answers  you may have. 

Cheers 

Russell 

At 10:46 on October 4, 2023, Russell Lynn Drysdale said…

Welcome Wilma!

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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