During the decades I’ve been an Internet junkie, I’ve made contacts all over the world. Many have been through my passionate research into family history.
It never ceases to amaze me that whatever you need to find out, the Internet can provide the answer or a path to the answer.
As ever with answers, they tend to pose more questions and so the cycle continues as we delve deeper, search for further clues and have the rewards of many many wonderful contacts in the process.

I’ve been in touch with two contacts already today, one in Canada, and one much closer to home in Livingston.
The Canadian connection has come through an e-mail to a Montreal museum about a family will probated around the 1900s. I don’t yet have a copy of his will, but have uncovered something much better, a genealogist who was brought up in Cowansville( where my wealthy ancestor died) and was friends with one of my ancestor’s direct descendants. Sadly the friend died recently, but my new contact will be in touch with the family and hopefully that contact might unearth further details of our Aitken ancestry in Canada.
My mum will be THRILLED!!!

The other contact today has been with yet again someone interested in family history. Graeme and I have not yet met, but we do share direct ancestry through the Spence line of our trees.
I have followed Graeme through Facebook for years, and through that contact today discovered his interest in the Scottish Independence Debate. It is well worth a read, as he highlights the many many myths about the debate engineered by those who have so much to lose when Scotland takes its rightful place as an independent nation once again.

I’m supposed to be resting from political argument at the moment, so with that in mind, I’ll turn my attention to lesser things and pick up my mandolin and strum a while!