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David....If only you knew..!!!
I could paper the house with scraps of notes and other bits and pieces collected over the years ..and not filed anywhere but in my head...I am at present sifting through paperwork from 1998 looking for family details I Know I have ..somewhere ... but where I put them is the problem...Yes it must be wonderful to be organised ... but ...maybe one day...

Erinobragh1916, In the early days of my family tree search I had a desk covered in

bits of paper including jotters with sections of my tree. I even bought a roll of lining wall paper to put then all on the same sheet. O the stop start plans. This all was discarded, thrown out when I changed address, then had an accident. All I had to do was to have put all my tree's members on the GR provided family tree. Too easy for
this man. The cause of so many restarts, Again I apologise to all I haven't thanked
who did help. :-) <3

David,
I class myself as organised.
I visited the records office on Wednesday and found loads of missing stuff to add to my tree.

I wrote lots of notes but I also knew that I had to add it to my tree as soon as I got home on Wenesday evening
By Thursday I wouldn't have remembered what the notes meant!

None of us are perfect.

That avatar shows my late parents more than 30 years ago <3 <3 <3

The paternal side of my tree is as follows
Me. aka David Irvine b1945
Son of Samuel G Irvine b1918-d1990
married Ella Doreen Atkinson 1945 b1926-1994
Son of Samuel G Irvine b1874-d1940
married Sarah M McClarnon b1883-d1941
Aunt Rosanna b1914 Aunt Sarah b1912
Samuel senior married twice, His first wife was Ada Coaton
They had a son Samuel died aged 7 years
Ada died 1912 aged 28 years
Samuel senior was the son of Francis Irvine and Rossana Galloway

David...Good to see you have got organized. .I have spent the best part of the day hunting for family in Scotland knowing full well I already had the info. but couldn't find it.. I need to start taking a leaf out of your book....!!

This will be the parents 1911 Same street as Samuel at No 2

Residents of a house 33 in Osborne St (Duncairn, Antrim)

Irvine Francis 72 Male Head of Family Methodist Co Antrim General Labourer Cannot read - Married - - - - 43 yrs. 10 children 3 living.
Irvine Rosanna 67 Female Wife Methodist Co Antrim - Read and write

1901

Residents of a house 7 in Osborne Street (Duncairn Ward, Antrim)

Irvine Rosanna 20 Female Daughter Methodist Ballyclare, Co Antr Pinafore Sticher Read write Irish Not Married -
Irvine Francis 65 Male Head of Family Methodist Ballyclare, Co Antr Labourer Cannot read Irish Married -
Irvine Rosanna 55 Female Wife Methodist

Francis Irvine married Rosanna Galloway
Ballylinny Prebytarian Church Antrim
18/8/1864

So Rosanna Irvine pinafore stitcher aged 20 in 1901 was Samuel's younger sister

Samuel Irvine senior had siblings Margaret, Agnes and Thomas

I have noticed while searching that there was poverty in Northern Ireland
Large family with high incidence of deaths in childhood. And wives dying young.

My GGF b1841died sept 1915

His Father was Francis , it's on GGF's marriage certificate 1864

Don't know dates for GGGF but I'm sure he was Francis

Sadly I have broken the forums rules by asking a similar question about my GGGF Francis Irvine on a different thread.

To anyone and everyone I may have offended or annoyed in this
I APOLOGISE
I APOLOGISE
I APOLOGISE :-(

Fancy that..!!!

Its to Hell in a Handcart you 'll be going David...!!!

Bad as that ?? :-S