Geneology

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Hamish,

If you were interested in following through with this, your could find your father's birth record on a webpage www.1837online.com. This site (again for a fee) will provide you with the coordinates for your father's birth certificate (ie. a year, a register district and its code number and a page number). This site is no where near as slick as www.scotlandspeople. Then you can send away to the PRO for a copy of the certificate. It will give you your father's name and place of birth as well as his parents' names. If you're lucky, it might give additional information about the parents (age, place of birth -- English records aren't very good in that regard though). Once you have your grandparents' name, you could set about in www.1837online.com to find their marriage. The marriage certificate should give you the bride and grooms age (although they don't always) and the names of their parents.

Armed with your grandmother's name, age and her parents' names (and possible ages), you could go back to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and see if you can find her birth and the first bits of information on your highland ancestry.

Sorry, I don't mean to oblige you to do anything. I just hope I am providing information you might wish to receive. I love geneology and I am happy to you find your roots. If you want any help or explanations on things, feel free to post something or to PM me. The website www.1837online.com is not straight forward; you might need some help with it.