I WONDER if any of your readers remember Nora Mackay or Sybil Duncan?

I AM trying to find information on George Hutchison who married Catherine McLennan on 10th December 1897, in the Elgin area.

MY late father, Douglas Simpson, had two brothers, the eldest being James Alexander Simpson, who served in the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, which was part of the 51st Highland Division around the Dunkirk perimeter.

I AM trying to trace three former colleagues who sailed and worked alongside me in the Merchant Navy from 1968 through to 1977, when our shipping company ceased to exist.

I AM looking for the family of my great-grandmother, Jessie Walker. She was born 28 December 1847 to James and Ann (nee Smith) Walker at Duffus, then moved to Dallas, Morayshire.

MY name is Brian Arnold from Canada and my grandmother's name was Mary Watson from Forres. The Watson twins were her nephews.

DOES anyone have any information on the McLaughlin family that lived in Elgin/Bishopmill in the 1960s?

I AM trying to find relatives in my family. They are Margaret, William, Gavin and Christine Wilson. They're mother was Edith Wilson (nee Campbell), my fathers sister.

I AM searching for living family of Evelyn (Bannerman) Mitchell (b.1894, d.1985) and Donald Mitchell (b.1894/5).

I HAVE been commissioned by a publisher to write a biog­raphy of the Biblical ­scholar Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1910-90), who was born in Elgin.

MY ancestors on my mother's side are from Moray and I am forever trying to fill in missing gaps in my family tree.

I AM seeking the family of my grandmother Janetta (Net) Isabella Davidson, who immigrated from Dufftown to Canada in 1929-30.

I AM seeking my cousins whose mother, Annie McCombie Ritchie, was born in Glasgow in 1915. She was the daughter of George and Maggie Ritchie and grandaughter of James and Annie Ritchie, Elgin.

MY Great Great Grandfather Erick Winchester was Baptised 1st March 1827 at Drainie. Parish Register reads as follows:

I AM looking for my grandmother. Her name is Marjorie (Marjory) Sophia Cameron.

I AM trying to find information on my grandmother, Helen Jane Henderson, who was probably born in Deskford in 1880. Her mother was Jane Henderson and her father was John Jamieson.

I'M looking for information on James Brown who was the Editor of the Elgin Courant from at least 1841-1881, he was my GG Grandad and i have just found the thread to him.

I'M interested in Alexander Anderson born about 1790-1800 in Boharm, and who married Helen Watson in Fordyce on 21 May 1831.

I AM trying to trace my half-sister, Jessie MacPherson (née Kelman), who I haven't had any contact with for over 40 years – she would be about 55 years old now.

I AM looking for descendants of Beatrice and Charles Robert Hill. They are both buried in Clovenside cemetery in Forres.

I WOULD like any information on Duncan Fraser who was a Lord Provost of Aberdeen and owned a men's outfitters shop in Schoolhill in the 1960's.

I WONDER if any of your readers can help trace relatives of my 'aunt', Margaret Grant, who was fostered by my family in the 1940s in Glenferness.

I AM trying to locate any surviving descendants of my great great grandmother, Janet (Jessie) Alexander, who died in 1916.

I AM trying to trace who my grandfather’s parents were. His name was Henry Charles Buck, originally from Wick, born in 1912.

MY great grandfather James Allan was born in Keith in 1839. I believe his Allan family (crofters - so poor farmers and blacksmiths) were living west of Keith since the early 1700s. Great grandfather James Allan immigrated to America.

I AM seeking information on the Grants of Strathspey–Haugh of Wester, Elchies. I know there were two brothers - William b.1733 d.1821 in Strathspey–Haugh of Wester, Elchies, and Daniel b.1745 d. 1833.

I AM doing research on my late uncle, Jimmy Smith, who played Highland League football and later, in the 1950/60s, was a referee and linesman.

I AM trying to find out about my great-grandfather Alexander Priest. He was a police constable at Findhorn police station in the late 1800s.

I AM seeking any information regarding Elizabeth Jean Milne, last heard of living at the Brander Arms Lossiemouth, in July 1969.

I AM looking for descendents of John and Ada Gray nee Plouman b.1879. She was my great grandmother’s youngest sister.

I AM desperately seeking my adopted sister's family, and am wondering if your readers can help.

I HAVE come to a dead end on my great-great-great-grandfather. His name was William Shiach and he was born c.1813 in Inchberry, Rothes.

THE family of an 86-year-old woman are trying to trace surviving relatives of her first husband, a Buckie RAF pilot who was shot down and killed in World War Two.

ON a recent trip to Scotland I was given several family photographs from my great-grandparent's home in Elgin. Unfortunately, we are unable to identify many of the subjects in these photos and there is no one left to ask.

I AM researching an organisation formed during the early days of World War II.

I AM visiting Moray in September with my mother who is 80. She was born in Alves but left the area when still a child. She has not been back for over 50 years.

I AM looking for information about my dad Thomas Smith. He passed away on November 29, 1995.

I AM currently working on my family history in Illinois in the United States.

I AM trying to find anyone related to my seventh great grandfather Roger Mac an Ainstrie or it may have been spelt Mac an Astrigh. He was born in 1860 in Ayr.

I AM searching for anyone related to Canon Peter Bonnyman, born in 1883 at Enzie and who died in 1948 in Glasgow where his last parish was.

I AM trying to locate family information regarding William Panton, DOB about 1811 St. Andrews Parish, Duffus, Elgin and his wife, Mary Panton, DOB about 1821 Urquhart, Morayshire.

I AM searching for the extended family of Catherine MacKenzie b.1856 in Knockbain. Mother Jane and father John MacKenzie.

DO any readers have memories of the World War II prisoner of war camp Stalag 8b at Lamsdorf, in Poland?

I'M trying to trace the family of my grandfather, James Harrold, who vanished from our family radar on the death of my grandmother 6 months after my deceased father was born (1918).

I AM hoping that readers can help me with the biography I am writing on R.C. (Robert Cumming) Hamilton, who was a famous footballer for Rangers and Scotland in the 1890s and early 1900s.

I’VE come across the name of a publication by Elizabeth Anderson named:

I AM seeking information regarding the Mcpherson family, Robert b 1801 married Margaret Murray they had at least 6 children, James 1822, Isabella 1824, Alexander 1829, Helen 1831, Robert 1833 and William 1838 who married Ann Stewart. They brought up 11 children.

Madam, – I am researching the involvement of people from the Highlands in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39.

THE S3/4 History Challenge Club are involved in a major project with which we hope to recognise the sacrifice in wars throughout the years of former Forres Academy pupils.

A CANADIAN student has appealed for information about a Buckie-born soldier who died in battle during World War I.

I AM trying to find out any information on a marriage that took place between: GEORGINA SYMON (born about 1889) and JOHN KESSACK WILLIAMSON (born about 1889).

I AM trying to trace a photograph of my father who was head gamekeeper at Glenrinnes Estate between 1930/1940. He lived at Sandyhillock during this time.

I AM an Australian relative seeking information regarding the life and whereabouts of Helen Black Anderson, who was born at Malcolm Bridge Cottage in Boharm on 20 January 1910.

I AM trying to trace James Alexander Grubb. He came from Elgin and served with the 6th Seaforth High-anders in World War II.

NEXT year, 2007, is going to be the year of celebrating Highland Culture. The Scottish Co-operative Group, which will be sponsoring next year's Moray Firth Flotilla event, would also like to celebrate the Co-operative Movement in the Highlands and Moray, past and present, as part of the region's culture.

MY name is Sean Kirst. I am the son of Mary Jean Innes (Kirst), now deceased. I live in Syracuse, New York, and would very much like to learn if any of my relatives still live in Moray, specifically Buckie.

I AM looking for photographs of (what was) the new part added to the original Munro Baths, opened in 1965.

I AM trying to find my family roots in Scotland. Adam Mann married Agnes Ann Bonnyman Garrow in Aberdeen, 69 Causewayend.

I WOULD like help in solving a mystery of the relationship between the Grants whose lived in Ramsbottom, Lancashire in the 19th century but hail from Morayshire.

I AM researching my grandfather’s family. They were hairdressers in Elgin.

I AM trying with a cousin to track some connections in Moray. Our mutual blood-relative was John Alexander (born Glasgow 1875), who served as a sergeant in 1st and 2nd battalions of The Gordon Highlanders in the Boer War.

I AM a former resident of the Elgin area and hope to make contact with someone I served with in the army.

I AM researching the death of my husband’s father, William Nicol Lindsay, who died when the steam trawler 'Sansonnet’, from Aberdeen, was lost with all hands on April 3, 1940, when a bomb went down the boat’s funnel, 18 miles east of Muckle Flugga.

MY grandfather Alexander Ross Rhynes was born in Elgin, moved to Aberdeen's Kittybrewster area as a young boy and attended Kittybrewster school. At age 14 he and his brother Robert, 15, accompanied their dad, Robert, to Prince Edward Island in Canada to purchase a farm and become farmers.

I WAS interested to read in this week’s 'Echoes from the past – 100 Years Ago’ the article regarding my great-grandfather, John Mitchell, who was the last of the Elgin Town drummers.

I AM writing to you from Australia in the hope that you may be able to help me find more information about my great-grandparents.

I AM looking to track down descendants of, or anyone who knows anything about, my long-lost great uncle who stayed behind in Scotland when the rest of his siblings, mother and stepfather emigrated to Canada in 1922-23.