Kingdom of Fife, Scotland Surnames List - formats for surname & enquiry submissions

This page was last updated on 11 July 2006   Back to surnames listings page   Back to main contacts page

• Last name in capitals, with any known alternate spelling, without commas. State each name in full: do not use brackets to indicate alternate spellings. One e-mail for all entries.
• First name or names of earliest-known person in a family line, and trade/occupation of the identified person, interspersed and followed by a semi-colon.
• Location of last-known activity for that person. This is usually a parish name; if otherwise, the parish name should also be included. Then a comma, the name Fife.
• State the year, or year-period of investigation. Where a marriage, birth christening or death is the oldest activity and the person is named, please add the activity to the specific year, e.g. c 1856 or m 1734. Do not include specific dates.
• After a space-hyphen-space please type your name as you wish to be called, not  your e-mail address.
• Entries to be in alphabetical order. If entries are not submitted in alphabetical order, one of the early tasks for the pages maintainer is to edit the submitted list into alphabetical order!
• Please append your "fife family history business card" at the end of your text - Name, email, location, and Fife names being searched; this extra item makes my editing much quicker - thanks! Every submitter gets one of these - click the "details" for each line to see samples. See sample below.
• Please submit marriages as two enties, if you wish them to appear under two surname headings.
• Any number of surname submissions are acceptable, all in one message: submit to Hugh Reekie at the email address below.

Each submitted entry will be given an e-mail reply link. Additional separate "specific enquiry" text enquiries, that relate to name entry, are also welcome; unlike some other similar lists, these queries are always cross-referenced to a name entry in the main list, so they are not "buried". Submit them in any text format, up to 100 words; submissions may be edited. See the query listing for samples. Direct linking with personal family history web pages is also planned. When you have completed your submision material, please check that it is complete and correct: all dates should have b, c, m or d related to them; the e-mail supplied is the one you want; all known alternate surname spellings are given; your contact information is as complete as you want it to be. If you notice an error after mailing, please resubmit the entire material. The Fife GENUKI surname pages are produced by a volunteer: the information contained therein shall not be reproduced without permisssion and shall not be used for professional use in any manner whatsoever. Entries after 1860 cannot usually be justified for inclusion. Please remove geographic information outside Fife.
    Examples of appropriate name listings are:

        LOGAN, Walter; servitor to Lord Balcarres; Fife, alive 1648 - Vivienne Dunstan
       LOTHIAN LOUDEN John; linener; b 1752 Cupar Dalgety, Fife -  Iain Sommerville

For the contact listing, please provide as much information as you are comfortable with. This will usually include an e-mail address, but can also include a fax number and a mailing address. If only an e-mail address is given, a general locality would be appreciated, e.g. Sydney area, NSW, Australia.

• Hugh Reekie - email  h.reekie@ieee.org (preferred) or max-com@netcom.ca -
  • 164 Bayswater Ave, OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, K1Y 2G3 fax 613-728-9143
    • Fife name Curror, Reekie, Syme, Watt
• Jim Robertson - E-mail  jimjar@ozemail.com.au; home page: http:/www.ozemail.com.au/~jimjar/  ...sunshine coast, Queensland, Australia

If you have a web page that includes genealogical information for Fife, please add that too: such information is encouraged. Any comments on the readabilty or usage of this list would be appreciated; in particular, feedback on the use and relevance of snail-mail addresses is solicited. This Surname Interest List is not to be used, in whole or part, for profit or commercial gain.

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