So I mentioned several months ago that I'd joined forces with my mother-in-law to help with her genealogy project, and that we'd ordered microfilms of Edinburgh parish records to see if we could back up what's been passed around as information gleaned from a family Bible that burned in a house fire decades ago. The results weren't as helpful as we'd hoped, but we have other avenues to try.
Nowhere in the marriage registers for Edinburgh could we find the 1661 marriage of Ian Esom Farris and Emily Jane Cameron that we were hoping to, but we're not giving up. Ian supposedly came from Rutherglen, so there are always those records to try, and that just might require a 'research' trip to Scotland. It's a rough job, but someone has to do it, right? Damned shame it has to be us. Yes, I know that didn't sound remotely convincing. It wasn't meant to.
What I was able to find for my MIL was copies of land grants, bills-of-sale for land, maps, and such for one of the Farris ancestors and surprised her with all of them on a CD. We may be temporarily stuck on Ian, but this is where my German-Celtic tenacity comes in. I WILL find the information, damn it!
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