Northumberland and Durham Family History Society.
This site is a must view for hints tips and general links to some of the most helpful pages on the web. Contacting some of the members and their interests may prove invaluable. And you never know you may want to stay and join!!

General Register Office for Scotland.
This site offers online searches of the Scottish Census returns for a very small fee. This service is backed up With certification (Births, Deaths and Marriages etc...) of any results from a search. Other services are available, check it out you will NOT! be disappointed.

Scottish Association
of Family History Societies.
This site is very austere when first viewed, but don't let this put you off. There is good information to be tracked down by using the resources available to this group.

The Purvis Family of the Town of Rockland
Sullivan County NY
The story of the Purvis family has been pieced together from bits and pieces of data contributed by a number of descendants of this family, as well as from data found in records and publications.

Robert Purvis the abolitionist
Robert Purvis was born on this date in 1810. He was an African-American political leader and abolitionist

A rare old diary
A rare old diary of Thomas Purves charting his emigration from Scotland to the United States in 1817.

Borders Family History Society
Covering Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, Selkirkshire & Peeblesshire on the Scottish Borders. So pretty much covering all the ancient lands of the Purves Family.

Stirnet Genealogy
Excellent site giving the Naval family tree of the English Purvis line and their descent from the main branch in Berwickshire Scotland.