Examples

• Townsend - A boy who ran away from home and changed his name - his descendants did not know his original name, but knew a lot about his family (approximate dates and places, names of siblings, father's occupation, mother died young, etc.).
• Whitelaw - A rural family from East Lothian - the descendants had a birth certificate.
• Smith - Tracing the descendants of John Smith born 1881
• Stewart - Another boy who changed his name
• Russell - Tracing the parents of a woman who died before 1855
• Golden Square - Tracing the history of a house