"Putting the Meat on the Bones"!
Lots of people do their own research due to the vast amount of information on-line. Scotland's People website is accurate but please double check your findings on other websites as they can be wrong! We at Scottish Ancestor would like to help you "put the meat on the bones"! We will visit archives and libraries to give you more insight as to how your ancestors lived. We do not want to waste your money by finding out anything you know already, so to help us please provide details of what you already know of your family. We can research as much or as little as you require. There is a huge amount of material in archives and libraries, including newspapers, which is not available on-line. Let us have your ancestors names and areas where they lived and we will research them for you. Cost if £20 per hour. Copies of certificates etc at cost price at 50p. We will agree a budget before starting and not exceed that without consultation so that the client is always in control of the budget. We can also do transcriptions of recent birth, marriage and deaths which are not available through Scotland's People.
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M Monumental Inscriptions These can be of great interest in locating an ancestor. Recently we found a gravestone in Leuchars. This was for an American client, and on the gravestone was mention of a great uncle who had died in South Africa, the family had no idea of what had happened to him. . It gave the date and place of his death in South Africa. Unfortunately many of the stones are very hard to read , or have fallen down, but due to the hard work of volunteers a lot of them have been recorded.
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AncAncestral Photography Unfortunately, For many a visit to Scotland is not an option, so we can take photos of some of the places your ancestors lived. The kind of photographs we can take are:
There is of course no guarantee that all the the above will be there but we will try our best and also take notes of anything we think may be relevant.
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Fees & Payment The easiest way to pay is by credit card using PayPal. However if you do not wish to do that you can pay by sterling cheque, or by foreign currency cheque, but for the latter please add £6 to cover bank charges. Cheques to be made payable to "Frances Black" and sent to the contact address. Please note that all prices are in GB Pounds. For your own currency, click here: (Currency Convertor).
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