Scotlands Genealogy

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Welcome to ScotlandsGenealogy.This is a group which welcomes inquiries about your Scottish ancestry and heritage. I am Chris Halliday a professional genealogist based in Edinburgh,Scotland. I have professional qualifications in Scottish culture and genealogy. Looking forward to creating an active group to help each other and where I may be able to access records & locations for you here in Scotland.

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Location: Edinburgh,Scotland
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Scottish Family History 2012 3 Replies

With only a week to the New Year what do you hope to achieve with your Scottish research in the next 12 months ? Are you visiting Scotland and the home of your ancestors or do you hope to break down…Continue

Started by Chris Halliday. Last reply by Beth Gatlin Jul 24, 2012.

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Comment by Tracy Neely on March 7, 2012 at 7:08am: Thank you.

Comment by Chris Halliday on March 7, 2012 at 6:59am: Galway is a county and a town within the county of that name in the west of Ireland.Your grandmothers information seems to give a specific location rather than a generalisaton of 'Ireland'. Of course she could be wrong but it at least it is somehwere to start looking. Have a look at some Irish genealogy web sites to see where the surname Neely is most frequently found in Ireland.

Comment by Tracy Neely on March 7, 2012 at 6:14am: Does that mean the oral tradition of the Neely family in general seem to be county galway? Because I remember my grandmother saying Galway, but I always discounted that some as she wasn't a Neely and my grandfather died long before I was born. She also had a tendency to embellish around things she didn't want known.

Comment by Chris Halliday on March 7, 2012 at 5:36am: Hi Tracy

Neely is an Irish name but many thousands of Irish came to Scotland especially from the early 19th century and during the famine. So he could have been born in Scotland but with an Irish father and possibly mother. All births ,marriages and deaths in Scotland are recorded from 1855.Prior to that in Old Parish Records or Catholic records.Difficult to make leap from Scotland to Ireland,but your families oral tradition at least points their origins to County Galway.

Comment by Chris Halliday on March 7, 2012 at 5:26am: Just returned from the ScotlandsPeople and National Records of Scotland where there has been a power cut this morning,so unable to do any research.

Comment by Tracy Neely on March 6, 2012 at 10:01pm: Can you tell me about any Neely families in the early 1800s in Scotland? All my life I have been told that my ancestors were Irish and from County Galway, but I have found nothing to support that. The 1880 census states that John Neely, my 3x great grandfather was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and his father was from Scotland and his mother was from Yorkshire. My biggest problem is there are so many Thomases and Johns in that era that I am unable to tell which one its which. Except when they are living in the U.S. Before Thomas got here before 1820.

Comment by Chris Halliday on December 27, 2011 at 5:23pm: http://http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/features/scotland_s_dna_la...

Alistair Moffat continues his articles about Scotland's DNA and the people who settled here.