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From: Lesley Robertson <>
Subject: Re: [ANGUS] Castles
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:10:42 +0200
In-Reply-To: <003c01c227b5$8c007800$4785fea9@inter.netz534p7f8>



> Let me start off by stating that I am researching Mather, Dear, Mitchell, Thomson, Greig, White, Williamson.
>
> I spent the afternoon at our local Family History Centre in Ottawa hoping to find the birth record of my husband's ggggrandfather, David Mather born abt. 1770 but unfortunately, no luck. It seems that maybe his birth wasn't registered. However, I did come across something so interesting that

There wasn't birth registration in the 18th century, what we deal
with is baptism records - and what's on the IGI and Origins is the
Church of Scotland Parish registers. If yoour folk were another
denomination, you have a chance that the baptism is in another
register. It's only a chance, and the bad news is that the other
denomination registers (where they survive) are in the National
Archive, not indexed and not on line, so you'll need a researcher to
do a lookup.
Lesley Robertson
Dr. Lesley A. Robertson CBiol FIBiol
BioSafety Officer for the Kluyver Laboratory,
Kluyver Laboratory for Biotechnology,
Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 67,
2628BC Delft, The Netherlands
Tel 31 15 2782421; fax 31 15 2782355
http://www.beijerinck.bt.tudelft.nl


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