Tracing Family roots

[gilmore]

Don't give up yet, you're actually getting closer than you might imagine.

Try using Skitten Moor for your search. I think you will be able to center your search in the area north of a line between Wick and Keiss.

The airfield at Skitten was the base for Operation Freshman. You will do better to use older maps of Scotland in your search.

I would VERY strongly advise giving up that line of inquiry.

In genealogy we ALWAYS work from the present backward, NEVER the other way around. Rather than unearthing several place names that are the same as one's last name and then deciding to be decsended from people who lived at one of them, one would be much better served tracing backward from what one knows. It can be tedious, boring and not at all glamorous going through old records, and troublesome sometimes to have to travel great distances to get to them, but there really is no substitute if you want to do sound research that will withstand the scrutiny of others. Otherwise one is just wasting everyone's time with fanciful stories.

If you want to know who your father's ancestors were, the simplest thing is to ask your father, if he is living. Failing that, one goes to the census records, if in the US. You can see them at no cost at the closest federal archives, or you can subscribe to ancestry.com and access them online, up to the 1930 census.