How It All Began

It all started one evening in the late 1980s when my Uncle Donald was watching the news on Global BC in Vancouver and the anchor's name was Lynn Colliar. He wondered if she was related in anyway to the family.

Working and training to be a Librarian, I was nominated by him and my dad to be the family researcher, I was handed a sheet of paper with 6 names and dates on it, the database has expanded considerably through the years.

When I started there where no home computers and I originally kept the information on index cards. When PCs became available I started using an Excel spreadsheet, eventually family tree software was developed and I started using Family Tree Maker, which I still use today.

I started my research by asking family members, like my Dad, Aunts and Uncles for information, when I had all the information they could remember, I went into Register House in Edinburgh and carried out research there. There was no Internet in late 80s early 90s so I was limited in what I could find and I was left with a lot of dead ends as people had emigrated.

After the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid 1990s, I was able to place adverts online and carry out research on family that had gone abroad. However, not all the information is available, so I need help to keep information up to date.

We are on Facebook and you could always eMail us.

In case you where wondering, yes Lynn Colliar is related to the family.