My husband, Peter, has been mumbling to himself in the kitchen. Well that’s not new! He is reading out text from a small book written a hundred years ago by an ancestor of his about his family. The book was given by the author, Thomas Helm, to his niece (?) Peter’s mother when she was [...]
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Checking your sources!
Posted in Ancestry, Names, Research on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wigtown Book Festival
Posted in People, Scotland, Unusual!!!!, tagged Books, St. Ninian, Whithorn, Wigtown on October 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’re just home from a short stay in Wigtown in ‘The Machars’ in the west of the south of Scotland. I’m pleased that we’d arranged some accommodation and were able to spend time just looking round and taking in the atmosphere because it’s a strangely remote point of land which gives you a feeling of [...]
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