I am back again to shake the history tree, perhaps we can get the two David's and Plunkett going again?
I have been busy (found photography again) and work has been a drag, but I have a couple of weeks off over Christmas and sem to have found some new genealogical energy.
I really would like to get David of Manitoba going as he has some real experience an interest in the Kilmarnock area.
I left there aged 6 and have never been back so I only have hand-me-down from my family and my own original research.
I went a bit crazy in the early 1980's and accumulated a large filing drawer of information but have not really opened the drawer for 20 years. Most of what I have been trotting ouy is from my memory of that research.
I will have to get it all out again and process it into some sort of order. My filing system failed when I lost my interest about 1985.
I am a bit of a history nut and have read many books on Scottish History. One thing about this reading is that they all start to sound the same after a while. Then you find out that they all used the same few historical references. Very few of the so-called Scots historians used ORIGINAL research. More modern scholars are doing the right thing and finding new evidence, but there is a long way to go ...