If you would like to email me rather than fill in the questions online, I have provided a simple list of the questions here which you can cut and paste to an email.
Please answer as many as you would like to. My email address is catriona_research@yahoo.co.uk
Name:
Email Address:
Current place of residence:
Place of Birth:
Age:
20 or under
21 to 40
41 to 60
Over 61
Rather not say
Why are you studying your family history?
What does the research mean to you?
When did you start researching your family history? Was there a particular event which sparked off your interest?
Where did you get your first advice about how to carry out genealogy?
Do you have a computer and access to the Internet at home? Was genealogical research a reason to get it? If not, what methods have you used for research?
Has the availability of material online affected the way in which you have been able to research your genealogy?
Have you used searchable databases of information such as Scots Origins (from the General Register Office in Scotland), Family search (Latter Day Saints)? What do you think of them?
What about other resources such as:
Official Sites from libraries such as the General Register Office
Mailing lists
Newsgroups
Messageboards/ Web Forums
Have you used email to get in contact with other people (or been contacted yourself) because you share an interest in what you are researching?
Where have you found support for using the Internet?
How do you manage the information you have gathered?
Do you think the Internet has affected the number of times you have had to make visits to research places such as the New Register House in Edinburgh?
Are you interested in going to the places where your ancestors were from? If you are from overseas, was the genealogical connection a reason for making a visit to Scotland?
If you have been to places connected to your ancestors, was it how you expected? How did it make you feel? And what did you get out of your visit?
Have you used the Internet to research these places?
Are you interested in finding any of the following: (please tick as many as you wish)
Photographs of the area
Photographs of churches
Inscriptions of graves
Looking at parish records
Houses your ancestors lived in
Descriptions of places
Living relatives
None of these
Any other place specific information you are interested in:
Do you feel attached to a particular clan or a particular area? Do clans make Scottish ancestry different to that in other countries?
Are you involved with a clan society or family history society? How?
Has your genealogical research changed how you feel about who you are, where you are from and how you define yourself?
Do you feel affinity with your ancestors?
Have you chosen to concentrate on a particular part of your family history or has the availability of information dictated your research? Why?
And finally...How did you come across my website and is there anything more you would like to add that you think would be helpful?
That's the end of the questions! Thank you for helping me with my research.
My email address is catriona_research@yahoo.co.uk
More information:
Home
A thank you and some initial thoughts
My original request (on my old home page)
Why have I chosen to do a dissertation into Genealogy?
The dissertation as part of my Geography course
Studying at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
