If you have extra information for any of my GENUKI pages or have spotted a mistake then please contact me. For mistakes or problem-links, please give me the web address (URL) for the page with the problem, and tell me precisely where and what the problem is. I maintain many hundreds of GENUKI pages so need people to be precise when pinpointing problems, if I am to fix them.
Please do not ask me to undertake any research for you, of even the most minor nature. This is because I am very ill (long-term) and can hardly do my own family research now, let alone help other people find out about their family trees. If you have Scottish ancestors you should be able to find lots of advice in the Scottish bits of GENUKI (the UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service).
If you have looked at my list of surnames and think we might have common ancestors then send me a message but please take the time first to read through the details carefully to be sure that the places and time periods match, down to the level of individual parishes in counties. If you are unsure about the geography please find an atlas or map to help you. Also if you have lots of names in common with me, please don't assume a connection is more likely. Many of the surnames I am tracing are common Border surnames. Most people with Scottish Border roots have a good chance of having many names like these in their ancestry somewhere, especially if they are tracing every single branch of their Border ancestry, like me.
And, of course, messages relating to my Cavers one-name study are always welcome.
Please do not send me any attachments without checking first that I am able and willing to receive them. I may use a different computer system to you so could be unable to read any attachments that you send. Please do not assume that I have the same operating system or software as you and will be able to read an attachment that you send. This has happened too often to me in the past, with people making that assumption, and sending information in an attachment that I am unable to read.
A lot of the time information sent in attachments can be pasted as plain text into mail messages. That is the best guarantee that I will be able to read what you are sending me. But as with attachments please do not send me anything too lengthy (over 50 Kbytes) without checking first. In the past people have sent me very lengthy family histories (dozens of pages) when there is absolutely no connection with my family at all. If they had sent a short introductory "this is what I'm tracing" message we could have established that quickly, and saved everyone lots of time and effort.
This may seem a trivial point, but spelling someone's name correctly gives a much better first impression. My name is not spelled "Vivian", though many people seem to think it is :)