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Find My Scottish Ancestors: September 2012
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Monday, 10 September 2012. Old Scots Words: Hagbut or Hakbuit. I seem to be getting through the alphabet very quickly! These posts are going to move to a monthly slot now in order to leave some space for some on other topics too. Today's 'H' word is one that I have come across a fair few times in various documents:. The Dictionary of the Scots Language. For example, a 1610 letter from. Tack by the lai...
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Find My Scottish Ancestors: February 2012
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Monday, 27 February 2012. Mappy Monday - Maps that I love. I love using maps in my research, and although the National Library of Scotland is usually my first port of call for most Scottish maps, there are also some fantastic finds from other archives. Of the loch and The South Side. Of the loch at the Scotland's Places. Links to this post. Saturday, 18 February 2012. As anyone who checks in on my blo...
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Find My Scottish Ancestors: October 2011
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Wednesday, 19 October 2011. Lord Cochrane exhibition at National Museum of Scotland. The National Museum of Scotland is running an exhibition entitled 'the real master and commander' all about the life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane. Image: Juan Gnecco / FreeDigitalPhotos.net. And extraordinary collection of personal possessions and dramatic paintings. The exhibition runs until 19th February 2012 and is free.
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Find My Scottish Ancestors: June 2012
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Monday, 25 June 2012. Old Scots Words - Bahuif or Bawhufe. Today's 'B' word is a truly strange looking one:. I had never come across this one before, but found it when looking at a list of the items belonging to James V, King of Scotland ( pdf available here. It refers to a large chest or coffer or trunk and King James had a few of these:. The Dictionary of the Scots Language. Links to this post.
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Find My Scottish Ancestors: November 2012
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Monday, 5 November 2012. Robert Burn's Monument: Edinburgh. On a recent 'doors open day' here in Edinburgh (where buildings that the public often never see are opened for viewing, I took the opportunity to visit a wee gem of a structure that I had walked past many times, but never investigated: the monument to Robert Burns at Waterloo Place (just below Calton hill). Links to this post. I do not get a ...
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Find My Scottish Ancestors: March 2012
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Saturday, 31 March 2012. Surname Saturday - My MacCrimmon Ancestors. I do not get a lot of time to spend on my own family history these days (it's like the old saying 'the cobbler's children go unshod' - well, my own ancestors too often remain unfound as I am so busy looking for other people's! Some of these children are said to be:. With his first wife. PETER MACCRIMMON (my ancestor). There are great...
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Find My Scottish Ancestors: Old Scots Words: Hagbut or Hakbuit
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Monday, 10 September 2012. Old Scots Words: Hagbut or Hakbuit. I seem to be getting through the alphabet very quickly! These posts are going to move to a monthly slot now in order to leave some space for some on other topics too. Today's 'H' word is one that I have come across a fair few times in various documents:. The Dictionary of the Scots Language. For example, a 1610 letter from. Tack by the lai...
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Find My Scottish Ancestors: Old Scots Words: Ill-willie or ull-wullie
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Monday, 22 October 2012. Old Scots Words: Ill-willie or ull-wullie. Today's 'I' word has a hyphen (so I suppose I'm cheating a bit! But I do like it:. This word can be spelled 'ill-willy' or 'ill-wully' too and can mean bad-tempered or mean. The Dictionary of the Scots Language. DSL) has a few examples of its use dating mostly from the 1700s onwards:. J Kelly's Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs.
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Find My Scottish Ancestors: July 2012
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Find My Scottish Ancestors. Scottish Genealogy Blog: all about researching your Scottish family history. Monday, 23 July 2012. Old Scots Words: Fewfermorer. Today's letter is 'f' and we have a word that is often seen as a designation in older documents:. As usual, there are a fair few different ways of spelling this one, it can be 'feu' or 'few' at the beginning and the vowels at the end can be 'o's or 'i's or 'e's but it is usually quite easy to spot it. The tenure of land or other property in feu.'.