CHG Scottish Family History

This blog is run by members of   Cumnock History Group . Cumnock is a town in Ayrshire and the History Group members are interested in i...

I had got to a "brick wall" with the parents of Susan McTurk, an ancestor of my husband. Her death certificate gave parents as Hug...

Family history research is an expensive business. Here are some suggestions for finding information for free. familysearch.org is free....

This is a computational site. I'm sure it has lots of uses. I use it to find the day of a week a certain date was.  e.g. Try typing in...

I had not really used this feature until recently. I think the reason was that it gives far too many results if you type in a common na...

I have seen examples of this before but not documented it. I was looking at a Jessie Guthrie born about 1852. Father William Guthrie and m...

Middle names are often seen through the generations and this can help you be sure you have the right family. See my previous post on namin...