Welcome to talcy

This site contains Harold & Barbara's family tree. We started with our grandparents and worked back to the 18th century, and even to a few ancestors in the 17th century. Our grandparents are the starting points for the 8 branches of the family and each has its own section on the site. It contains 797 people. It was generated from Legacy Family Tree V9.

It is now 2024 and our site is 21 years old.

We have had a lot of help from cousins, both existing and newly found through our research. We are very grateful to Catherine Courageux, Alison Glaze, Maureen Cant, Lena Berta Rosie Frances, Steve Silander, Sheila Lamb, Rose Davidson, Tony Aherne, Alan Aherne, Linda & Ernie Anderson, Eileen Townsend, Irene Macleod, Bill Meek, Brian Cargill, Carolyne Jacobs, Jean Rainbow, Greta Borland, Anne Jackson and Rochelle Lester for sharing their research and material with us. I am also grateful to Gordon Johnson for correcting a bad mistake. Other help has come from Joy and Peter, whom I found via Auchmithie Roots Forum, and Bruce Durie of the Durie Family Association.

Here is a picture of some of our contributors.

Not really!
But it does give an idea of the amount of help that is needed to build your family tree!!

We would be delighted to hear from you, whether you know something that we do not, or are wondering if we can help you with your search for ancestors.

We live in Edinburgh and we were both born in Scotland, though we met in London. Our ancestors are mostly Scottish and there is a Swedish branch. We have also found a couple of links to Ireland. We can trace the movement of our ancestors from farming, fishing and quarrying in small villages to industry in towns and cities. We may have met in London, but we have common connections to rural Angus / Forfarshire and The Mearns of old Kincardineshire.

Our main areas of interest are Gothenburg in Sweden, Ayrshire, Perthshire, Arbroath and Auchmithie, Aberdeenshire including Buchan, old Kincardineshire, The Mearns and Peterhead.

We would like to hear from you if you have similar interests.

We hope you enjoy our work and find the site interesting and useful.