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Back to more work on the Scottish black servants academic journal paper. Now typing up the story of John Ogilvie Glasgow, a servant just outside Dundee. Whose baptism was - like so many others - missing from the ScotlandsPeople indexes. Though in this case it was not so much a case of systemic racism among those compiling the original indexes, but rather the GRO for Scotland and ScotlandsPeople had missed out an entire register of Strathmartine parish baptisms from their computer indexes! Luckily they had the original paper records, and I had traced this one through a separate baptisms index on FindMyPast. ScotlandsPeople were able to email me a digital image.

Portion of the Strathmartine parish registers, including the 1791 baptism of John Ogilvy Glasgow

Delighted to find Catholic baptisms for siblings of my granddad in Leeds. Though can't see granddad - the records are often very faint, so he may be there but not indexed. Thanks to FindMyPast for these records. I didn't realise until just a few years ago but granddad and his siblings were brought up initially as Catholic, their Dublin-born mum's faith. Sadly she died young in childbirth and there was a huge family split between the children and their dad. So it made tracing the Irish family tree extremely hard. But I managed it. And proved it by DNA testing with Irish cousins. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/leeds-roman-catholic-bmds-ripon-gazette