Genealogies and Family History

Here is where the real interest lies; after the basic facts of births marriages deaths have been collected and census records scoured the there are the deeper records of wills, testaments and land records etc.
Indeed this is the aspect of the site I'll be concentrating on – building up the background information.
The early Aberdeen Duns, who were almost certainly the ancestors of the Duns of Bristol, provide some of the most interesting research tasks.
Whereas the Border Duns simply seem to appear and their origins have long fascinated me.
The Fife family, amongst the earliest, spread abroad mainly to Australia but really world wide.
The Stirlingshire Duns spread to Canada and the United States, though my own branch barely moved 60 miles in 400 years!