Idle hands are devilish tools.
Well, whoot! Someone’s finally gone and done it.
A few minutes of down time at work; a news story about a U.K. archeology dig and a Google Map search to see where; a whim to check out Templeton Burn on my new pen pal’s recommendation; piddling, I find a Templeton Court in Glasgow that one Monteith Row dead ends into. I wonder, “See if anything’s turned up on Allie Monteith?” And The Google came up with the above in the first couple of results!
Now, see, I’d been searching online all around Allie only a few weeks ago — following her brothers, cousins, “Woodward” and the lot — to see if I could discover who her parents were, or maybe some indication as to when she moved where, or anything! (Oh, gosh, now that I’m linking to a blog entry about one such person, I see it was 11 months ago. How could it have been that long?!)
Of course I’d scoured the free precincts of Ancestry.com at the time, but not a lot turned up that I wasn’t finding otherwise. (I don’t subscribe anymore.)
Sheesh! So there she is, now: tantalizing me with possible info on her parents. Maybe dates or places of marriages?
I’ve known for years that there was one gedcom at Ancestry that mentions her, but I haven’t been able to get any particulars — even when I was a subscriber — and the researcher has never responded to messaging.
I need to look before I buy … it’s only such a little info I need …
It looks like I’m going to have to get by the LDS Genealogy Library and use their free access to Ancestry tomorrow, just to make sure.
