Eday, genealogy and delayed posts...
Posted: Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
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A useful website for those researching their Hebridean ancestry is www.rootshebrides.com.
Arnish Lighthouse from Stornoway
Skål for IBHQ og Anne!
Digital Sands from Berneray
A friends fathers father was jailed in the 1930's for bigamy, and my friend would like to know if this show could be of help in tracing any relatives of father, not known. I can get hold of a newspaper clipping from the original report of fathers, father being sent to prison. just wondering..
notthewhitesettler from nowhere near lewis
What's all this fuss about delayed posts?
Compton MacKenzie from Barra
www.eday.co.uk I've lived all over the world and I've experienced two kinds of cultures: the kind that's like...very outgoing, in-your-face and offers lots of amusements for you to sit back and enjoy. And then there are the quieter cultures which are JUST as interesting and fun BUT you have to seek everything out on your own and you also have to be able to join in and/or entertain yourself to some degree. I think the biggest thing to tell any incomer to Orkney (being an incomer myself!) is this: it's not what is "here for me" that makes Orkney a great place to live. It's what you can bring to Orkney and what you can do for yourself in Orkney that makes this place come alive for you. Orcadians are very mellow folk. While they love to visit and are highly talented people they are not out in the spotlight making Orkney an interesting place to be. They are not entertainers nor are they the kind of folk that want to be seen and known. Orkney is interesting because each individual person gets out and does their own thing without seeking an audience. This has created a really artistic and musical place - a place full of dancing and festivals and all sorts of community events. But these events are not put on FOR people. They are put on BY people. (I hope I'm making sense here.) There's none of the bright lights and "Hey look over HERE!" going on much in Orkney. So anyone from a retired person to a teenager will only enjoy Orkney if they come here with an additude of, "what can I contribute?" rather then "what can I get from this place?" Orkney is VERY communal rather then individual. So it is vital for any person here to go out and get involved. If you try and be entertained or you try and get yourself out in the spotlight you'll find yourself bored. Orkney is a very social place - but social in a quiet way. You have to go and visit people and get to know your neighbors - or else they'll politely leave you alone. And you'll end up a very lonely person. And more then likely a person that does not understand how Orkney is will blame Orkney and say Orkney is boring and lonely!! But it certainly is not!! It's a great place where there's just as much to do and see - but without hardly any fanfare.
Michellechoza from Mainland Orkney
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