Dear Genealogist, I am recruiting males with a direct paternal line to Dumfries and Galloway to participate in a Y-DNA study. If you already have a FTDNA account, please join at the below link.

Hi Ian, Thank you so much. That also explains another mystery. The last Scottish census (1901) the family was there but his wife was listed as head of the family and the 5 children (ages 19 – 7)

Hi Michelle It was a Tuberculosis hospital. In 1941 it consisted of a ‘village’ of wooden pavilions but those were replaced about 30 years ago. Kind regards Ian A McClumpha

In doing my genealogy I have discovered that my Gr. Uncle Walter Mundell died at D.G. Sanatorium in Lockmaben in 1941. What kind of Sanatorium was it? Thank you Michelle

I run a one-name study into Scoon and variants. I've recently been revisiting my records on the Canonbie area and noticed a recent intimation of updates to the England and Scotland, Select Cemetery

Hi Michelle Wow, thank you for your reply. It's piqued my interest too!!! I haven't really looked into the siblings of my direct Wells ancestors so far, but I do have their names and dob. I did a

Hi Terry Regarding our connection by marriage (!), interesting - I will have to drill down a bit deeper on that side of the line. I saw the books for sale from DGFHS. If ther are 29 of "us" there,

Hi Terry, nice to hear from you! Thanks for the tip re DGFHS. I joined them the same day as I joined this group and they have been very helpful. Indeed, I used the surname checker and got a few charts

Hi Dave, I have your Wells family in my family tree. They are not related by blood but via marriage to my 1st Cousin 2x removed James Charles Ferguson of Tinwald. I mentioned the DGFHS

Hello David, Your letter piqued my curiosity. I have been researching my family for several years and have gotten several lines back to 1600’s but just started on another line (my father’s G..

Hi Dave, If you haven’t already done so check out www.dgfhs.org.uk they have a surname list which may show other members researching same name but you will need to become a member to access their

Hi all i joined the group today after researching my family tree shortly after the pandemic started and we were locked down (in Saudi Arabia in my case, where I work). I've done fairly well using

That's very helpful, thank you. The record says that John Hairstanes was fined 3,000 merks, and this is also expressed as 2,000 pounds because a merk is two-thirds of a pound. On top of

The merk is a long-obsolete Scottish silver coin. Originally the same word as a money mark of silver, the merk was in circulation at the end of the 16th century and in the 17th century. It was

Thanks Terry - I joined the Society but I don't have a membership number yet, so I'll follow this up later. Carole -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus

Hi Carole, Yes the records in FMP attributed to DGFHS are from the DGFHS books. The FMP records are fine if you know what you are looking for but often I have found additional info because I can

Hi Carole, If you are seeking to connect with others researching these families, have you searched the DGFHS Surnames Index at https://dgfhs.org.uk/pedigree-chart-surname-index/? That confirms they

Very good questions! In the first place, I hoped I might be able to connect with other people descended from these families, or who have researched them. (I am aware of this website

Thank you - I have now joined the Society. I assume the contents of the volumes of Dumfries Parish OPRs (Deaths and Burials) are the same as the records I have already seen - attributed to

You’ve already traced a good way back. What further information are you looking for? And where have you looked already? Maps? Sasines? Kirk sessions? Gravestone inscriptions? Census? OPRs? Irene