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Has anyone else had this happen or am I alone?
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Jennifer | Report | 5 Aug 2008 21:40 |
I have searched and searched till I'm blue in the face but cannot find anything out about where my Hugh Munro circa 1740 came from. What do you do? At which point do you give up and stop torturing yourself? I've even tried hiring a 'professional' . He took £60 off me and delivered ,on his own admission, £30 worth of research. In spite of lots of reminders and very polite requests he just doesn't do the rest. The company to avoid is called 'Beacon', run by a very polite man called John who has many very polite excuses for not getting on with the work! |
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Sam | Report | 5 Aug 2008 21:49 |
There may come a point when you have to call it a day and give up on a particular line. |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 5 Aug 2008 21:53 |
Whilst I agree it was very unprofessional of John to treat you like that, he should have made it clear what he was going to look at, depending on what information you had. As Sam says, Hugh could have been from anywhere, and it's not that easy. £60 seems a very small amount to charge, unless he had a fairly firm idea of where to look. |
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Selena in South East London | Report | 5 Aug 2008 21:54 |
Is Munroe a Scottish name? There seem to be several submitted entries for him on the IGI. |
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RutlandBelle | Report | 5 Aug 2008 22:00 |
Hi Jennifer, from another Jennifer. I think you should stop torturing yourself! I have been doing this for 10 yrs and decided long ago that geting back to the late 1700's was good enough. I don't know about you but I come from a long line of Ag Labs so am pleased to have got so far. What keeps me fascinated now is tracing down siblings, aunts, uncles etc and I have unearthed all sorts of life stories, including bigamy, illegetimacy, emigration, and heroics in WW1 and others. |
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Jennifer | Report | 6 Aug 2008 09:10 |
Thank you all for your very good advice. In one way you've given me some hope that I may eventually find the old sod (I'm beginning to hate him) and in another way it is true that I should perhaps be happy with what I've got. The only problem is that , in my family there is an old story that we should have inherited a baronial title through Hugh and I can't for the life of me see why! He was an officer in the Royal navy so must have come from a fairly good family but he remains illusive in spite of professional researcher, searching up and down all side lines, back to front and front to back. His name is not uncommon in Scotland so , even though I've found Hugh Munro on IGI at the right time in the right place, it very helpfully says his mother was Mrs John Munro and father John Munro (if it is him). The Munro's have a lot of history written about them as they were barons and baronets with a castle, Fowlis near Inverness but I can't prove that Hugh was one of them. Perhaps I am asking too much! Thanks again all! |
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Woody's | Report | 6 Aug 2008 09:52 |
Jennifer, try Highland Family History Society. I think the subscription is £10 but they do do research for non-members though they may make a small charge. |
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****Wizzardess from Oz**** | Report | 6 Aug 2008 10:52 |
Hi Jennifer, |
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Jennifer | Report | 6 Aug 2008 13:08 |
Thanks Woody and Wizzie - wise words! I'm not going to give up and since this post Susan and Michael - members of GR have been trying to help which is amazing! People can be so kind! I almost feel I want to write a book about htis search -especially if I do eventually find the old sod as he is now officially known. |
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Jennifer | Report | 6 Aug 2008 17:52 |
John from beacon said he was going to do some specific research in the GUildhall LIbrary and that is what he hasn't done yet. |