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Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	Philip	Report	11 Aug 2006 06:54
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	Thanks for the tip. I know they're from Ayr and there's still family there that I'm trying to get in touch with to see if they can help. No idea of the parish though. Guess it's back to bugging the living rellies lol. Helen
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 6,274 Send Message	Georgina	Report	11 Aug 2006 01:58
	Philip a lot of info on scottish parish records are on the family search site but you really need to get back before 1880. If you google the parish your ancestors came from there are usually local family history societies. Georgina.
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	Philip	Report	11 Aug 2006 01:06
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 0 Send Message	I know about the Scotlands People site and the 1841 census available on Ancestry but are there any other good sites for tracing scottish roots? I'm still in the early 1900's at the moment. ta Helen