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Scottish local newspapers

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Alison

Alison Report 13 Nov 2010 19:09

It's worth searching through local newspapers for information about your ancestors. Often online access is available free of charge through your local library. This is an example of an announcement published in the Aberdeen Journal of 14th November 1810:

There will be sold by public roup, within the House of George Ronald, Vintner in Aberdeen, on Saturday the first day of December next, at 6 o'clock in the evening, (if not previously disposed of by private bargain),

The following SUBJECTS belonging to the Trustees of the deceased JAMES TROUP:

All and whole LOT TENTH of the SIXTH LOT of the Town and Lands of PITMUCKSTON...

The remainder of the article can be read at www.genegenie-scotland.blogspot.com, where newspaper reports from centuries past appear regularly.

Alison