Welcome to the latest incarnation of Family-History-Scotland. co.uk! To those of you that I’ve ‘met’ over the past few years and new visitors alike I hope you enjoy some of the new features of the new site. As you may have noticed I’ve been making lots of changes over the last few weeks after having negleted things for quite a while I hope it hasn’t been too frustrating. My ’sister’ site with family tree info is still available by clicking here or the link on this page. I’m afraid you may need to re-join as I had a fairly big change made today… apologies. The new format allows a bit more interaction and hopefully provides a good meeting place if you’re tracing your family history in Scotland. Please feel free to browse around the trees, pictures etc and let me know if we can make any connections.
My personal interest in genealogy started a long time ago with stories of connections to David Hackston (Halkerstone) of Rathillett, told with great enthusiasm by my grandmother Mary Hackston. Although I’ve not yet made a conclusive breakthrough I’m encouraged by the common stories I’ve been lucky enough to hear from long distant cousins.
I’ll be updating the site as regularly as possible and I”d appreciate any input you can offer. So, watch this space!
I am English surname of Cowings, I have had my DNA tested and my DNA says Cowan from Scotland. I am just wondering if any other Cowan have tested or are thinking of having their DNA tested.
Thanks
Brian
Brian,
Not aware of anyone else having used the DNA project. Maybe others can let us know about their experience?
I came across your website because a cousin of mine claims descent from Robert davids nephew through helenus now I see Helenus recorded that he had no legitimat off spring but these walkers have an earlier connection through Beatrice Halkerstone i am wondering if she is either Roberts sister or his aunt she appears to have died about 1713 after giving birth to one child David walker there do seem to be a lot of missing records for this family regards Elsie Ritchie
Elsie,
Helenus recorded the family tree in some detail and this is shown in:
http://books.google.com/books?id=UfyHAWrsSWcC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=helenus+halkerston&source=bl&ots=U4b7WEqQyB&sig=p8ix09qXOHILWQ29xMRc55-yifk#v=onepage&q=helenus%20halkerston&f=false
As I said in my main post Helenus was more concerned about recoring the ligitimate male line of inheritance and I’m sure that there are many other routes back to this family….