[ChattanCat]

Originally Posted by Sawney Bean

I'll stop being lazy and visit the Public Records Office in Edinburgh meself, then it'll be just the cost of a bus fare.

Aye, and if it were easy for me to visit Aberdeenshire, I would be there in a heartbeat.

[91tbrick]

My wife's been testing it out and spent 20.00 there over the last two days, she managed to take her family line back to the 1600s in a very short period of time traving 100+ ancesters. Doesn't help her entire mother's line and half her father's is scottish.
I early on got a leap on her though, typed in Gambino to google with my great grandmother's name and her father and had 250 years of lineage in about 30 seconds. Just can't seem to trace the muir line here in the states.

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My Aunt has been using this site for some time, and recommended it to me also, she said ti was fairly easy to use, and cheap...which is even better...

[Inchessi]

Originally Posted by cajunscot

I doubt that very much of your taxes go to pay for it; as a former civil servant (US National Park Ranger) who worked at a historical/genealogical site, that we're pretty low on the totem pole when it comes to funding -- that seems to be pretty much universal.

Whenever a visitor would make a comment such as this one, I would sometimes say:

I used to be a fish biologist. While on the way to work one morning, I saw a marquee hiring night manager for a video store, the pay was $7,000 more than what I made. We have a running joke that we are the 53 lowest paid state in the union.

[cajunscot]

Originally Posted by Inchessi

I used to be a fish biologist. While on the way to work one morning, I saw a marquee hiring night manager for a video store, the pay was $7,000 more than what I made. We have a running joke that we are the 53 lowest paid state in the union.

Well said!

T.