Stewart and Douglas Family History

Well, she was his new wife when this photo was taken 50-odd years ago.

I don’t know who the others in the photo are so my guess is that they are from her side of the family. Neither do I know her maiden name which seems pretty ridiculous as I write this as I’ve known her all my life and seen her many times.

But family history is a bit like that. There’s loads of things that you figure “of course I know that” and never quite get around to writing it down and thereby realising that you really don’t know it at all. Writing it all down is, of course, the key as you’ll have untold numbers of gaps in the information if you don’t write it all down as you come across it.

Whilst it’s pretty unlikely that I would end up following her family line it is much better to have a complete record to play with. For example, it looks from my records as though the Stewart and Hamilton families intermarried a number of times over the generations. Were they distant cousins getting married? Perhaps, perhaps not: I just don’t know at the moment.

The more complete the record is, the more likely you are to find matches when searching in the likes of the Mormon family history site.

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