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Kirk Session Records - an underrated source
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Alison | Report | 16 Dec 2010 21:21 |
Anyone with Scottish ancestors is likely to find Kirk Session Registers a valuable source of information. They're especially useful in identifying fathers of illegitimate children. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 16 Dec 2010 21:38 |
I'll be off to take a look at that, Doubt any of mine will be on there though, they were all so good. (Or at least they tended to marry once the pregnancy was showing) LOL |
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moonbi | Report | 16 Dec 2010 21:43 |
THanks Alison |
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Researching: |
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Dawn | Report | 16 Dec 2010 22:16 |
Alison |
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mac | Report | 16 Dec 2010 22:17 |
This is totally unfair! Most of my ancestors were illegitimate, but were English - why can't we have one of these? |
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Madmeg | Report | 16 Dec 2010 22:37 |
Mac, most of mine were born 6 months after marriage, so there were either a lot of premature births, or a lot of shenanigins that nobody owned up to. |
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mac | Report | 16 Dec 2010 23:06 |
Oh Madmeg, maybe we come from the same family? I'll cover your bet and raise you 5, I've got a g-gr,ndmother with 5 children, all must be premature cos they were born long before my g-grandfather came along - then they went on to 3 more. Must have been the practice, she managed to keep them to full term! |
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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** | Report | 16 Dec 2010 23:33 |
Hi Joan, |
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Alison | Report | 17 Dec 2010 09:13 |
Apologies to those excited people who thought my links were to original records, rather than local examples chosen to illustrate the details which are usually recorded. |