Location, Location, Location
Firstly an apology to anyone out there who actually takes the time and trouble to read these. It has been a while since I have managed to write anything and I have no excuse for this, just a case of not enough hours in the day! When I started my family history journey, I naively assumed that most of my ancestors would be found in a small area in and around the Central Belt of Scotland. My Dad was a proud Glaswegian and my Mum was from the Falkirk area. On my wife's side I assumed her family would all be centred around Sheffield and the surrounding area. How wrong I was! Both families have been spread far and wide across the globe, from Scotland to Australia and North America and from Yorkshire to South America. Even those families that stayed within the UK have moved over the years. My Dad's family didn't come to the Glasgow area until the late 1870s when my great great grandfather took up the ministry in Rutherglen. Before that they had lived in a small village, Kirkcolm,