Here is a pretty cool resource if you are interested in searching for a particular hill or mountain in Ireland and/or the UK. If you do not find your location on the website you can submit it for inclusion as well as photographs of your location. Greenan mountain for example is listed here with quite a thorough description which includes two photographs. http://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/index.php

This is a life sketch contributed by Christina Osborne of her Sproul line. I happen to be very familiar with this family line as we share a common ancestor, Thomas Sproul who left Tullymoan for New Castle, Delaware in 1756. This is a very interesting read and gives very good insight on what life was like in the 19th century. Thank you so much Christina for sharing this Life Sketch!

I have been doing research on the Ramsay family and possible connections to the early Spreull family. FOr some of this I have been using an online resource that has lots of obscure historical records available and makes them readily searchable. I thought I would share this with you. The site is The Internet Archive . It is described as " a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge ." It really does have a tremendous amount of scanned and searchable material. Below is an url that links to a search for "Walter Spreull". I also include a screen shot of some of the useful and often obscure documents that came up in that search. Try it for some of your ancestors! https://archive.org/search.php?query=Walter%20Spreull&sin=TXT