Foreign Perspectives

Family history is something of a now and again activity for me.

When I found the big family bible some years ago, I had a major flurry of activity going through it and integrating all the information into what I already had and then it was a few years before anything else happened.

Then there was the arrival of the Mormon family history site which seemingly filled in numerous details that were missing from the family bible. Mainly places of birth and death but also a number of relatives who weren’t mentioned in the family bible. I also ventured into the various family history forums on the Internet but with a name like Stewart they’re not nearly so useful as you might expect as there are just too many Stewarts around in the world these days.

It’s worth looking at that site now and again and indeed the forums as people add information to the various sites over time. By doing that, I picked up a whole branch of the family that we were sure had died out in the 1930s although I’ve not, yet, firmed up contact with them as yet.

Anyway, that’s all to introduce our new blog at Stewart Family History. As with my other activities in the family history arena, the entries on that’ll likely be now and again affairs but we’ll see. It’s separate from Foreign Perspectives as it doesn’t really fit here and should, in due course, interest a whole different bunch of people.

Initially, it’ll be principally the Stewart line as you’ll gather from the domain name but I’ll be starting into the Douglas history too fairly shortly and will no doubt add other names as I go along.