Author Archive: Mo Bruce

Researching your family tree can be a time consuming, and sometimes fruitless task. You check all of the Internet websites, and talk to as many of your family that you can. You might even drop into the local family history…
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My family have no connections to the founding of other countries. They do not appear to have had, or gained, high aspirations. At least none that have been recorded or survived. I can find very little about them, other than…
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First of all, you have to gather all that information about your ancestors together. Do this by interviewing your family, visiting your local family history centre, or go onto the Internet. Once you have started to gather your family information…
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Researching your family roots in Scotland will give you access to an excellent selection of detailed official records. Most of these records are now available online. If you find yourself looking for a woman’s maiden name, there are several avenues…
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The census is one of the most useful areas of research you can find. Through these records, you can obtain a mine of useful information, including age, place or country of birth, present address, and occupation of your ancestor. You…
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If your ancestors are from Scotland, UK, you have a definite advantage. There is an excellent website run by the Scottish Register House, which has all the available birth, marriage, and death records for the whole of Scotland. Fortunately for…
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The very first steps in researching your family’s history, is to go and speak to your family. Talk to everyone you can, there is always the chance that they remember a bit of old family gossip, or your auntie Nellie’s…
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When you work on your family history, you never know where your research is going to take you. You find that it is the small human tragedies of an ancestor, which brings home the fact that these were real people,…
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If your family is originally from the UK, and you have ancestors who fought in the First World War, then you have a mine of information and records available to you. The fascination with this conflict is reflected in the…
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