Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

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I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[punch*drunk]

I'm not even sure he is part of the family. Its possible the son who was cut out of the will is an ancestor, but he would have had to have had a child at 17/18 for him to be the right one. If I can trace his wehereabouts, I might be able to rule him in or out.

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I think it says "at present in America" hmmmm, that doesnt help me much though. I was hoping it would be a bit more specific, America is a big place!

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How cool is this website, have you guys seen these records on Ancestry?

http://billiongraves.com/pages/search/

I just got a photo of my husbands great grandfathers war grave in France 🙂

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  http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/10/07/21/05/vandals-smash-grave-sites-at-vic-cemetery

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I have not been lucky enough to find any of my family on that site yet...............I have found others peoples family.

I found the 1841 census for my great great grandfather................and it says he was a Crofter+kelper.......so I looked up what Crofter meant.........and found this great picture below....(herding cattle on Skye)

It also said his father (who they were living with) was a farmer and elder...........what do you think they meant by elder.

It was a little island of about 800 that they lived on.

[punch*drunk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder

He might have held some kind of position of authority there?

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I am not sure Punch........they cleansed the island a few years later............the majority of them were thrown off it when the kelp industry failed................and as he had such a common name I have never found out where he went.........or if indeed he did leave the island as he was near 80 in 1841.

I guess it will remain a mystery..............I would like to think it was because he held some postition...............but I think it is unlikely.

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Today is an interesting day in history....heaps of things.

1852 Sydney University offically opened.

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Mary, Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart, was born on 8 December 1542, daughter of Mary de Guise of France and James V of Scotland. When her father died on December 14, the baby Mary became Queen of Scotland but James Hamilton, Duke of Arran, served as regent for Mary.

Mary's mother wished to cement an alliance with France, so arranged a betrothal for the young Mary with France's dauphin, Francois. At age 6, Mary was then sent to France to be groomed for her future role as Queen of France, which she took up in 1559. As the granddaughter of Margaret Tudor, the older sister of Henry VIII of England, Mary Stuart was considered to be the rightful heir to the English throne.

This was over Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, whose marriage was not recognised by many Catholics in England because Henry had unlawfully divorced Catherine of Aragon. Mary Stuart, in their eyes, was the rightful heir of Mary I of England, Henry VIII's daughter by his first wife. Francois died on 5 December 1560, and Mary's mother-in-law, Catherine de Medici, became regent for his brother Charles IX.

Mary Stuart then returned to Scotland to rule as Queen, but did not recognise Elizabeth's right to rule in England. Years of plotting and controversy followed as Mary tried to assert her right to the throne, with many conspirators on either side of Mary or Elizabeth being killed as they obstructed the way of the other.

Ultimately, the attempt to place Mary on the Scottish throne resulted in her trial, which commenced on 11 October 1586. Mary Queen of Scots was executed on 8 February 1587, on suspicion of having been involved in a plot to murder Elizabeth.

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  Loch Ness, or Loch Nis in Gaelic, is a large, deep freshwater lake in the Scottish Highlands, which extends for about 37 km southwest of Inverness. It is the second largest loch (lake) in Scotland, with a surface area of 56.4 km2, but is the largest in volume. It is 226 m deep at its deepest point.

For centuries, witnesses have reported sighting a large monster with a long neck in Loch Ness, Scotland. Famous photographs have been proven to be hoaxes, but still the myth of the monster has persisted.

On 11 October 1987, "Operation Deepscan", a major sonar exploration of the Loch, was undertaken by a team of 20 cruisers. High-tech sonar equipment bounced sound waves to the bottom of the lake, electronically recording any contacts. Three sonar contacts showed up as crescent shaped marks, but the results of the sonar test did not indicate there was anything unusual on the bottom of Loch Ness.