This is a temporary search system which allows search of Daphne Brooke's Galloway placenames dataset. There are a number of caveats; she had not completed proof reading the database at the time she died, and had not approved it for publication; and she did not want her notes to be published, although these do in my opinion represent some of the most valuable material. Consequently not all the notes were transcribed from the index cards, which are now held in Kirkcudbright Museum. Note also that where parish is given as 'unknown', this is not necessarily true. Not all the parish data had been transcribed at the time of Daphne's death.
This search interface is temporary; an improved interface will be available in due course. If you wish to see improvements quickly please feel free to badger me - I do not in the least resent being badgered about this - Simon Brooke, August 2005.
Update December 2005: this search should work properly and show maps with
On all other browsers except Internet Explorer, the search will work, but the mapping won't. It even works on my mobile phone.
The browser it still doesn't work with, of course, is Internet Explorer. You can make it work with Internet Explorer, but only by turning JavaScript interpretation off. The fact that this is a bug in Internet Explorer and not in our JavaScript is demonstrated by the fact that our JavaScript does work with five other browsers. Never the less we are working on it and will ty to fix it.