What's new for the Spring 2010 update?
After many years of research the parentages of Alexander Cheyne and Jean Urquhart
have been established, albeit with qualifiers. They were my earliest Cheyne
ancestors. They were my brick wall. And so too with many of you. I have narrowed
the possibilities to four. Two of the four were probably the same person. I
present my reasons for choosing as I did and invite your comments. Use this link
to Alexander or Jean.
We have established a
presence on Facebook and invite you to join the "fans" of The Cheyne
Family Web Page there. A link is provided on the "Links" page.
Please feel free to add photos of your self, children or grandchildren.
Something that I was reluctant to do. I will send up all of the photos that make
up the collage on the main page and many of the other
photos you have sent me in the past. Please add a caption to the photos you
provide so that everyone will know who everyone is.
Because of the Facebook page, we have deleted the Photo Gallery portion from
this WebPage. It was very difficult to produce and maintain.
We have resized all
primary images. Those are the ones that appear on a persons personal page. Many previously
were too large or too small. They now should all be approximately the
same size. If you have an image of anyone, Cheyne or not, that is now in the
database please sent a scan to me for inclusion in the next update, this Fall. As an
example see my grandfather's page, John Park Cheyne.
Extensive additions
have been made to my associated families in the United States; Eaton, Hunter,
Morgan, Sutton and Yoho.
Also in England for Armitage and Smith.
We have mined
several new, at least to me, Vital Record WebSites; West Virginia and New
Zealand.
Ancestry.com as several new collections of interest including several London Old
Parish Records.
PapersPast WebSite; New Zealand 19th century newspaper images.
Extended the research of McCheynes in New York in the early 1900s.
All Cheyne and some other entries in the Fordyce and Forglen Old
Parish Registers in Banffshire were scanned and inserted
Google Books has several downloadable books of interest including:
The 1696 List of Pollable Persons in Aberdeenshire, History of the
Writers to the Signet, Burke's Commoners and others. Most of the
Cheyne passages have been copied and inserted. All the Cheyne
passages in the 1696 Poll were copied and inserted as pdf files.
As always we are so truly
grateful to all of those readers who have
contributed their information, photos, copies of documents to allow this page to grow.
We all owe them a huge debt of gratitude.
Please continue to send, your comments, corrections, additions and photos are encouraged and
welcomed.
Please email me if you find any missing
links or text that does not make sense or is gibberish.