I have finally worked out how to apply colour to text words which is helping me to organise my Perry information and should make it easier for readers to locate and ollow the story of people of interest.

I’ve continued to add to the Patton page. There is still a lot to put on but it could be some time before I complete this. In the meantime, I would love to be able to colour code pages so that it is easy to see who-is-where. Apparently this can be done!

I’ve been adding to the information about the Pattons of Belfast. I have a lot of information as it is an extensive family. Printing the tree to help me keep track used 10 A4 sheets for 4 generations of descendants and it is not something I will likely complete before Halloween (even then I suspect…

I’ve had a lot of success in the last couple of weeks at tracing the families of Sarah Jane Hunter’s siblings families. They replicate the trend seen with the Brown family of people leaving the Bessbrook area and moving to Belfast. In some cases this involved moving to America.

Upcoming- I’ve been working my way through an investigation by Crieff Kirk into an incident at Peter Douglas’s house at Hill’s Wynd in Crieff. More tomorrow.

A little snippet added about Peter Douglas, the brother of Charles Douglas the blacksmith.

I have added a little more about Jane Ann Clark’s daughter’s family over the last few days.

I have added a good bit of information about some Hannas from the Ards Peninsula in the last few days. If anyone can further I am always grateful to receive information and I give credit to those who do so.

I’m off for the summer and have been trying to delve a little more into the Hannas of Ards Peninsula so you can expect to see some additions there.

Perusing Find My Past’s newspaper archives I came across a form of obituary for Janet Alexander Douglas, daughter of William Douglas and his wife Catherine Nicholson. Interestingly, it was published in the John O’Groats Journal on 19th February 1909 and gives a warm and reasonably detailed account of the life of this young woman. Further…