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Kirkwood Genealogy
Robert Kirkwood and his Descendants Last updated Feb 2009
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Share research information
The authors and their contributors did extensive research, and obtained copies of many official records, in compiling the genealogy. Unfortunately, their published work did not contain any source documents or references to those documents. The current location of any copies of source documents is unknown. If you have access to any such documents, or if you obtain further copies as part of your own research, you can help to improve the quality and legitimacy of the Robert Kirkwood Genealogy by sharing your treasures with its caretaker.
Provide details of births, deaths, and marriages
This genealogy is a source of pleasure and knowledge for many children (past and present) in the family, who know of its existence and have had its significance to their existence explained to them. As time passes, resources such as this become even more valuable, and more difficult to recreate. One of the prime aims of the current caretaker is to keep the details up to date, and to use electronic means to make appropriate excerpts available to families who wish to introduce their children to the topic of family history. You can help by providing details of events in your immediate family. Details of living persons born after 1930 are suppressed (except for surname) on the publicly accessible site.
The (almost) lost art of letter writing
When the Robert Cooper and Robert Kirkwood Genealogies were being compiled in the 1950s and 1960s, and again when the Robert Cooper Genealogy was updated in the 1980s, cousins who rarely saw each other communicated regularly by letter. The bulk of the raw data for the genealogies arrived at a central point by this means, largely due to the efforts of ladies of the fourth and fifth generations. Sadly, most of these wonderful women are no longer with us, or are no longer able to read and write letters, and subsequent generations have all but abandoned the practice of letter writing.
If any of you computer literate readers have cousins or aunts or uncles who may have
useful information but no e-